ĀDAMĪYAT (“Humanity”), name of two Iranian periodicals.
1. A weekly newspaper published in Tehran in 1907 by Mīrzā ʿAbd-al-Moṭṭaleb Yazdī, who was also the founder of Zabān-e mellat. Said to have been in league with the opponents of the constitutional movement, he was a member of the tribunal of June, 1908 which tried the constitutionalists at the Bāḡ-e Šāh. After the fall of Moḥammad ʿAlī Shah in July, 1909, he was arrested and imprisoned for a year.
2. A weekly newspaper founded in Šīrāz on 1 Ḵordād 1305/23 May 1926, by Mīrzā Moḥammad Ḥosayn Roknzāda Ādamīyat, author of the well-known books Delīrān-e Tangestānī and Fārs va ǰang-e bayn-al-melal. A lithographed sheet published irregularly, it appears to have ceased publication before 1935. It was primarily concerned with social and economic affairs.
Bibliography:
Browne, Press and Poetry, p. 27.
Kasravī, Mašrūṭa III, p. 113.
M. Ṣ. Hāšemī, Tārīḵ-e ǰarāyed va maǰallāt-e Īrān, Isfahan, 1327-32 Š./1948-53, I, pp. 103-05.
(L. P. Elwell-Sutton)
Originally Published: December 15, 1983
Last Updated: July 22, 2011
This article is available in print.
Vol. I, Fasc. 4, p. 448
L. P. Elwell-Sutton, “ĀDAMĪYAT,” Encyclopædia Iranica, I/4, p. 448; an updated version is available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/adamiyat-humanity-name-of-two-iranian-periodicals (accessed on 7 February 2014).
