The History of Children’s Literature in Iran is a research project on the historical course of children’s literature in Iran and the elements and genres that shape it. The research group approved the preliminary plan in 1375 SH and began writing the reference book series of the same name in 1376 SH.
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This research project begins at the rise of the idea of culture and letters in Iran—with oral literature or folklore, including legends, lullabies, and songs. Across chapters on the history of children’s literature in antiquity, after Islam, in the Constitutional era, and in modern children’s literature, Iran’s economic, social, and cultural conditions are examined so that, in historical context, the place of children, society’s view, and especially each era’s outlook on the child, modern schooling, and the literature available can be studied and analyzed. When did attention to the child as different from the adult, with distinct wishes and needs, begin? How did scholars and thinkers define the child and children’s needs? When truly does the history of children’s literature in Iran begin? To which periods do the first books written for children belong? The History of Children’s Literature in Iran has sought, with reliable historical documents and scholarly reasoning, to answer each of these questions.
The first children’s books certainly did not appear overnight. Across history, factors such as changing educational and pedagogical attitudes, the lasting appeal of legends and folk tales among children and young people, the simplification of Persian prose, the influence of modern Iranian literature, the arrival of the printing press in Iran and book production on a wider scale, the founding of new schools in Iran, and the growth of child psychology and attention to children’s needs helped bring about the category of “children’s literature” and the publication of the first children’s books. The History of Children’s Literature in Iran is a comprehensive study: it not only traces the formation of children’s literature from oral and ancient beginnings, but also examines and evaluates the children’s literature of Iran’s diverse peoples and religions—from Azeri and Kurdish literature to Assyrian, Armenian, Jewish literature, and more.
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