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Anis ol-Odabā va al-Atfāl (A Friend to Men of Letters and Children)
The book is a translation of some English tales as well as Aesop’s Fables by Abd al-Hamid Ibn Abd ol-bāqi Thaqafi, known as Matin al-Saltaneh in 1901. The first sixteen chapters are advice to children about respecting their parents, righteousness,…
Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights)
Thousand and One Nights, as one of the most popular books worldwide, has its roots in India, Persia, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt(Marzolph et al., n.d.). One important source of the book is said to be the Iranian Hezār Afsān (A Thousand Tales) which is no…
Ayār-e Dānesh (The Hallmark of Knowledge)
The book was a paraphrase of Anwār-e Sohailī, which is, in turn, a translation of Kalīla wa-Dimna. The translator, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak Nagori, was an Indian who had learned Persian as a foreign language(مهدي, ابوالقاسم, and اله, n.d.). The book…
Negār-e Dānesh (The Imprint of Knowledge)
Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak Nagori made a selection of the tales in Ayār-e Dānesh, by the same writer, with still easier language to understand. The date of the original publication is not known, but it was later republished in Lucknow, India in 1902…
Jangalestān (Jungle Land)
This is a translation of fifteen fables from Jean de La Fontaine’s Fables into Persian poetry by Hussein Dānesh. He was a teacher who lived and taught in Turkey. The book was published in Turkey in 1913.
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Ta’adib ol-Atfāl (Disciplining Children)
This is claimed to be one of the first Iranian books written for children and it is an innovative book in some respects. The writer, Miftāh Al-Mulk, claimed to have translated it from an Arabic translation of a French book. However, the names of the…
Sad Pand (A Hundred Parables)
The main source of the book was Aesop’s Fables translated by Mirzā Ali Asghar Khān in 1905. The translator has translated the source freely changing some parts of the plots and descriptions. The book was published to be taught to second-grade…
Nardebān-e Kherad (The Ladder of Wisdom)
Mirzā Mohammad Hossein Khān Foroughi, known as Zokā ol-Molk along with his son, Mirzā Abu al-Hassan, translated and adapted Fables de Fenelon from French in 1899. The book contains 22 fables with annotations to clarify difficult words or points. The…
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Bluher va Budhasef (Bluher and Budhasef)
This book, deemed to have stemmed from Indian oral tradition, tells the story of Siddhartha who abandoned the palace of his father under the influence of his mentor, Bluher. One of the lithographed editions was used to supply part of the Elementary…
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Akhlāgh-e Asāsi (Basic Morals)
This book is a translation of the Arabic Kalīla wa Dimna along with other Persian resources. The source for the Arabic translation was a lost translation into Pahlavi (an ancient Iranian language) of Panchatantra as well as parts of Mahabharata and…