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ZĀYANDARUD, weekly newspaper published in Isfahan
by ʿAbd-al-Ḥosayn Moʿin-al-Eslām Ḵᵛānsāri from 1 RabiʿI 1327 to 22
Ḏu’l-ḥejja 1333 (23 March 1909 to 31 October 1915). Moʿin-al-Eslām, a
cleric and an active supporter of the Constitutional Revolution (q.v.),
became Isfahan’s district attorney and held other judicial positions
after the establishment of the constitutional government and the defeat
of the Moḥammad-ʿAli Shah’s coup d’état of 1908. He later chose
Zāyandarud as his family name. From the fourth year, Moḥammad-Ṣādeq
Adib Ḵorāsāni, the future publisher of the paper Ṣobḥ-e omid in Isfahan, was introduced as director in charge, since Moʿin-al-Eslām’s judicial position caused a conflict of interest.
Zāyandarud was a political publication that supported
the Democrat Party after its establishment and advocated democracy. The
paper was banned in April 1910, and the publisher was jailed for a
brief period due to a complaint filed by the governor of Isfahan. It
was banned again in the autumn of the following year, because it had
welcomed the arrival of Ḥaydar Khan ʿAmu-Oḡli (q.v.), the well-known
revolutionary (Eṣfahān 5, no. 57, 4 Ḏu’l-ḥejja 1329/25 November 1911).
Zāyandarud was lithographed for about eighteen months at Farhang
printing house, in eight double-column pages of 35 x 21 cm, and then at
Ḥabl-al-Matin printers. In the last three years of publication, its
format changed to four-column pages of 31 x 45 cm. The last page was
devoted to caricatures illustrating current events. The subscription
rate for the first two years was 16 krans in Isfahan, which was later
increased to 30 krans.
Incomplete sets of Zāyandarud are kept at the Central
Library of the University of Tehran, Moʾssassa-ye moṭālaʿāt-e tāriḵ-e
moʿāṣer-e Irān, Ebn Meskuya Public Library in Isfahan, the
Public Library of Tabriz, the Library Republic of Azarbaijan’s Academy
of Science in Baku, Cambridge University Library, and Princeton
University Library.
Bibliography : Touraj Atabaki and Salmaz Rustamova-Towhidi, Baku
Documents: Union Catalogue of Persian, Azerbaijani, Ottoman Turkish and
Arabic Serials and Newspapers in the Libraries of the Republic of
Azerbaijan, London and New York, 1995, no. 1016. Kāva Bayāt and Masʿud Kuhestāni-nažād, eds., Asnād-e maṭbuʿāt, 1286-1320 H. Š., 2 vols., Tehran, 1993, II, p. 578. Lucien Bouvat, “Perse: la marche sur Téhéran,” RMM 8, 1909, pp. 482-83. Idem, “Presse persanne,” RMM 15, 1911, p. 154. Irān-e now 3/15, 14 March 1911. Irānšahr, Berlin, no. 9, 21 May 1924. Guʾel Kohan, Tāriḵ-e sānsur dar maṭbuʿāt-e Irān, 2 vols., Tehran, 1984, pp. 515, 545. Jaʿfar Ḵomāmizāda, Ruz-nāmahā-ye Irān az āḡāz tā sāl-e 1329 H.Q., 1993, pp. 162-63. Foruḡ-al-Zamān Nuri Eṣfahāni, Rāhnemā-ye maṭbuʿāt: fehrest-e našriyāt-e mawjud dar ketāb-ḵāna-ye ʿomumi-e Ebn Meskuya-ye Eṣfahān, Isfahan, 2001, p. 162. H. L. Rabino, Ṣurat-e jarāyed-e Irān wa jarāyed-i ke dar ḵārej az Irān ba zabān-e fārsi ṭabʿ šoda ast, Rašt, 1911, no, 118. Ṣadr Hāšemi, Jarāʾed o majallāt III, pp. 1-4. Ursula Sims-Williams, Union Catalogue of Persian Serials and Newspapers in British Libraries, London, 1985, no. 638. Giti Šokri, “Fehrest-e ruz-nāmahā wa majallahā-ye fārsi dar Moʾassasa-ye āsiāʾi-e Dānešgāh-e Širāz,” FIZ 27, 1987, p. 374. Mortażā Solṭāni, Fehrest-e ruz-nāmahā-ye fārsi dar majmuʿa-ye Ketāb-ḵāna-ye markazi wa markaz-e asnād-e Dānešgāh-e Tehrān... 1267 qamari tā 1320 šamsi, Tehran, 1975, no. 193.
(Nassereddin Parvin)
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