Nida-yi Vatan

Nida-yi Vatan
TypeWeekly newspaper
Founder(s)Ahmad Majd Al Islam Kirmani
Editor-in-chiefAhmad Majd Al Islam Kirmani
Founded27 December 1906
Political alignmentLiberal
LanguagePersian
Ceased publicationJune 1908
HeadquartersTehran
CountryIran

Nida-yi Vatan (Persian: ندای وطن, lit. 'The Country's Call') was a weekly newspaper being one of the publications that were started following the Iranian constitutional revolution in 1906.[1] The paper supported a constitutional rule in Iran and appeared until 1908.

History and profile

Nida-yi Vatan was established by the journalist Ahmad Majd Al Islam Kirmani who also edited the paper.[2][3] Its first issue appeared on 27 December 1906.[4] Nida-yi Vatan was headquartered in Tehran.[4]

Kirmani described the paper as a liberal publication which attempted to make the notion of constitutionalism much more popular in the country.[2] In each issue the statement hubb al-watan min al-iman (Persian: love of homeland is of the faith) was put under its title.[5] This sentence is attributed by the Sufi Muslims to Prophet Mohammad which refers to the Sufis' attempt to reach unity with the divine.[5] In the paper, this statement was employed to encourage patriotism among its readers.[5]

The paper frequently featured brief biographies of the deputies.[2] It also published patriotic poems and letters from its readers.[5][6] Unlike other publications established in the same period such as Majlis the paper was strictly controlled by the state.[1] Nida-yi Vatan folded in June 1908.[2]

Some of its issues are archived by the University of Chicago Library.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Peter Avery (1991). "Printing, the press and literature in modern Iran". In Peter Avery; Gavin R. G. Hambly; Charles Melville (eds.). The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 837–838. doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521200950.023. ISBN 9781139054997.
  2. ^ a b c d Negin Nabavi (2005). "Spreading the Word: Iran's First Constitutional Press and the Shaping of a 'New Era'". Middle East Critique. 14 (3): 314, 316. doi:10.1080/10669920500280656. S2CID 144228247.
  3. ^ Shiva Balaghi (2001). "Print Culture in Late Qajar Iran: The Cartoons of "Kashkūl"". Iranian Studies. 34 (1–4): 167. doi:10.1080/00210860108702003. S2CID 161066518.
  4. ^ a b c "Persian Journals and Periodicals". University of Chicago Library. 28 April 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d Afsaneh Najmabadi (2005). Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA; London: University of California Press. pp. 101, 107, 113. doi:10.1525/9780520931381. ISBN 9780520931381.
  6. ^ Valentine M. Moghadam (Summer–Autumn 2000). "Hidden from History? Women Workers in Modern Iran". Iranian Studies. 33 (3–4): 385. doi:10.1080/00210860008701987. JSTOR 4311379. S2CID 161877886.