UNESCO's list of representative titles from Iran
The UNESCO Collection of Representative Works was created in 1948 as a cooperation and cultural understanding programme. Its aim was to encourage the translation, publication and distribution in the major languages - English, French, Spanish and Arabic - of works of literary and cultural importance that are nevertheless not well known outside their original national boundaries or linguistic communities.
The works have been published as co-editions in partnership with publishers from all over the world. To date, the catalogue of these works contains some 1,300 titles from more than 80 countries, translated from 100 or so different languages.
UNESCO's collection includes the following titles by Iranian authors:
Al-Ghazali (Abu Hamid Muhammad)
O Disciple!/Ayyuha l-walad
Philosophic work translated from the Arabic by George H. Scherer
Beirut/Paris, Lebanese Commission for the Translation of Great Works/UNESCO, 1951. (Bilingual English/Arabic)
‘Attar, Farid al-Din
The Ilahi-na ma or Book of God
Translated from the Persian by John Andrew Boyle; foreword by Annemarie Schimmel
Manchester/Paris, Manchester University Press/UNESCO, 1976
Muslim Saints and Mystics. Episodes of the Tadhkirat al-Auliya’ (Memorial of the Saints)
Translated from the Persian by A. J. Arberry
Chicago, Ill./Paris, University of Chicago Press/UNESCO, 1966
Fasa’i’s, Hasan-E.
History of Persia under Qajar Rule [Farsnama-ye Naseri]
Translated from the Persian by Herbert Busse. New York/London/Paris, Columbia University Press/UNESCO, 1972
Ferdowsi
The Epic of the Kings [Shah-Nama]
Translated from the Persian by Reuben Levy
London/Paris, Routledge & Kegan Paul/UNESCO
Hedayat, Sadeq
An Anthology
Short story edited by Ehsan Yarshater; translated from the Persian
Boulder, Colo./Paris, Westview Press/UNESCO, 1979
Juvaini, ‘Ala-ad-Din’ Ata-Malik
Gengis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror [Ta’rikh-i-Jahan Gusha]
Epic translated from the Persian by John Andrew Boyle; introduction by S. Runciman. Manchester/Paris, Manchester University Press/UNESCO, 1958
Cambridge,Mass./Paris, Harvard University Press/UNESCO, 1958
Introduction to the second edition by David O. Morgan. Manchester/
Paris, Manchester University Press/UNESCO Publishing, 1997
Khayyam, ‘Umar
The Ruba ’iyat
Poetry translated from the Persian and introduction by Parichehr Kasra
Delmar, N.Y./New York/Paris, Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints/UNESCO, 1975, 1977
Monshi (Eskandar Beg)
History of Shah ‘Abbas the Great [Tarik-e ‘Alamara-ye ‘Abbasi].
History title translated from the Persian by Roger M. Savory
Boulder, Colo./Paris, Westview Press/UNESCO, 1978
Nizam Al-Mulk (Abu Ali Hasan ibn Eshagh al-Tusi)
The Book of Government or Rules for Kings [Siyar al-Muluk, Siyasat-nama]
Translated from the Persian by Hubert Darke
London/Paris, Routledge & Kegan Paul/UNESCO, 1960, 1978
New Haven, Conn./Paris, Yale University Press/UNESCO, 1961
Sa’di
Morals Pointed and Tales Adorned [Bustan]
Translated from the Persian by G. M. Wickens
Toronto/Buffalo, N.Y./Paris, University of Toronto Press/UNESCO, 1974
Sepehry, Sohrab
The Expanse of Green/Hajm-i Sabz
Translated from the Persian by David L. Martin
Los Angeles, Calif./Paris, Kalimat Press/UNESCO, 1988
Bilingual edition: English/Persian
Tabib, Rashid al-Din
The Successors of Genghis Khan [Extracted from Jami’ Al-Tawarikh]
Translated from the Persian by John Andrew Boyle
New York/London/Paris, Columbia University Press/ UNESCO, 1971
Tansar [attributed to]
The Letter of Tansar
Translated from the Persian by M. Boyce
Rome/Paris, Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente/UNESCO, 1968
The Tarikh-e Sistan
Translated from the Persian by Milton Gold
Rome/Paris, Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente/UNESCO, 1976
Tusi Das, Nazir ad-Din
The Nazirean Ethics [Akhlaq-i Nasiri].
Translated from the Persian by G. M. Wickens
London/Paris, Allen & Unwin/UNESCO, 1964
Warawini
The Tales of Marzuban [Marzuban-nama]
Translated from the Persian by Reuben Levy
Bloomington, Ind./Paris, Indiana University Press/UNESCO, 1959; Greenwich, Conn./Paris,Greenwood Press/UNESCO, 1969; London/Paris, Thames & Hudson/
UNESCO, 1959