Bonyad-e Farhang-e Iran
Bonyad-e Farhang-e Iran (Foundation for Iranian Culture) was a non-profit foundation of Iran to promote the Persian language and culture. It enabled numerous national and international research projects on the Persian language and literature. The foundation was based in Tehran.
founding
The Bonyad-e Farhang-e Iran was founded on October 17, 1964 (25. More 1343) by Parwiz Natel Chanlari with the support of Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi . Parwiz Natel Chanlari remained the head of the foundation until his arrest in 1978 as part of the Islamic Revolution .
tasks
The aim of the foundation was to research, preserve and make known in the world the Persian language and poetry as part of the spiritual heritage of Iran. In the year it was founded, it had a rather modest budget of 1 million Toman (500,000 DM) at its disposal, but this grew to more than 19 million Toman over the years.
Departments
The foundation was divided into four departments:
- Department “ Historical Linguistics ”: The department dealt with the linguistic change of the Persian language from its beginnings to the present. The department began collecting classical works of Persian literature with the aim of being able to publish a historical encyclopedia of the Persian language. The description of this change in sounds, forms, structures and meanings also led to the provision of grammars and dictionaries for preliminary stages of the Persian language.
- " Grammar " department: The department dealt with Persian grammar, ie with the systematic description of the Persian language.
- " Specialized Languages " department: The Specialized Languages department was primarily concerned with the publication of technical-language dictionaries and encyclopedias in the fields of science and technology, in particular encyclopedias on the areas of "oil", "medicine", "management" and "law". In these areas, the influence of foreign languages on the Persian language was particularly great. With the dictionaries and lexicons a comprehensive documentation of the language development and standardization of the Persian language in these subject areas should be achieved.
- Department “Pahlavi Language Research”: The department was dedicated to researching the Middle Persian language “Pahlavi”. Pahlavi emerged from Old Persian and was until 8/9. Century AD survived as a living language . In the Sassanid Empire (224–651 AD), Middle Persian was the official language and lingua franca. When this language passed into New Persian after the Islamization of Iran , Middle Persian was only used as a “dead” church language by the Zoroastrians of Iran until the 10th, by the Manicheans in Central Asia (in the Turfanoase in Chinese Turkestan) until the 13th century AD Has been used.
Publications
The scholars employed by the foundation had published over 300 books by 1978, including reprints and facsimiles of important Persian manuscripts, texts and dictionaries in Pahlavi, scientific and technical dictionaries, folk lexicons, historical linguistic lexicons, lexicons on Iranian art, grammars and bibliographies.
Under the leadership of Ahmad Tafazoli, the foundation published its own multilingual magazine with articles in Persian, English, French and German.
Pajouheshkade Farhang-e Iran
In order to support Iranian studies at home and abroad, the research institute “Pajouheshkade Farhang-e Iran” (Institute for Research into Iranian Culture) was founded in 1972 (1351) . The institute led an international funding program for linguistic research projects and offered financial support to foreign students who wanted to learn Persian as part of a scholarship program. Students from the neighboring countries India, Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt were given special support. The institute worked closely with Iranian studies institutes at universities and scientific institutions.
Islamic Revolution
After the Islamic Revolution , the foundation and institute were no longer operated as an independent institution and merged with eleven other institutions to form an institute for cultural studies and research .
Publications
- Adib Yaghoub Kordi Neshabouri: Ketab al Balgheh. Series: Farhanghaye Tazi be Parsi. 2535 (1976).
See also
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- Publication of Her Highness’s Office (Farah Pahlavi). Tehran, 1354 (1975). P. 63ff. (farsi)