Parcham (magazine)

Parcham (Persian: Flag) was a Persian magazine that was published by social and religious critic and historian Ahmad Kasravi in the period 1942–1944. Stanisław Adam Jaśkowski argues that Parcham was one of the publications which contain the writings about the basis of Kasravi's religious ideas.[1]

Parcham
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyBiweekly
FounderAhmad Kasravi
Year founded1942
Final issue1944
CountryPahlavi Iran
Based inTehran
LanguagePersian

History and profile

Parcham was launched by Ahmad Kasravi in 1942.[2] It was successor of his previous publication Payman.[3] Parcham was published in Tehran on a biweekly basis.[1][4] It was the official organ of the political party, Azadegan, which was also established by Kasravi.[3] Parcham folded in 1944.[2]

Ali-Akbar Hakamizadeh was among the contributors of Parcham who published very serious criticisms over Shiʿism.[1] One of them was a 36-page article entitled Secrets of a Thousand Years.[5] Due to these articles Ruhollah Khomeini called for the murder of Kasravi who was assassinated by the radical Shiis on the steps of the courthouse in 1946.[1][5] Khomeini also published a book in 1943 entitled Kashf-i asrar (Persian: The Unveiling of Secrets) to respond the claims of the article by Ali-Akbar Hakamizadeh.[5]

Legacy

Stanisław Adam Jaśkowski published a book in 2017 about Parcham with the title Parcham – Journal of Ahmad Kasravi and His Followers: A Snapshot from the History of Press in Iran.[1]

References
  1. Evan J. Siegel (2021). "Book review". Iranian Studies. 54 (1–2): 337–340. doi:10.1080/00210862.2019.1699232.
  2. Minoo Ramyar (1969). Sayyed Ahmad Kasravi historian, language reformer and thinker (MA thesis). Durham University. p. 20.
  3. Lloyd Ridgeon (2006). Sufi castigator. Ahmad Kasravi and the Iranian mystical tradition. London: Routledge. p. 20. ISBN 9780415665131.
  4. M. Reza Ghods (January 1991). "Iranian Nationalism and Reza Shah". Middle Eastern Studies. 27 (1): 44. doi:10.1080/00263209108700845.
  5. Chad Kia (2014). "The Scum of Tabriz: Ahmad Kasravi and the Impulse to Reform Islam". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 41 (4): 501, 506. doi:10.1080/13530194.2014.932270.
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