Lotfollah Taraghi

Lotfollah Taraghi (Persian: لطف‌الله ترقی), born 1903 (1282 Solar Hijri calendar) in Qom, Iran, died 1973 (1352 SH) in Tehran, Iran,Nasrollah Shifteh, Zendegināme va mobārezāt-e siāsi-ye Mohammad Mas'ud, ruznāme-mard-e emruz (The Life and Political Struggle of Mohammad Masud, A Journalist of Today), Tehran, 1984, p. 355. was an Iranian scholar (adib), journalist, publisher, lawyer, and Parliamentary counsel.Hasan Abedini, Farhang-e Dāstān-nevisān-e Irān (Lexicon of Iranian Short Story Writer), Tehran, 1990, p. 54. He is the father of the Iranian author Goli Taraghi.
== Career as journalist ==
Lotfollah Taraghi was a well known landowner and in the 1940s he owned most of the Mahmoodieh area in Tehran.Dariush Pourkian, The Battered Generation, London, 2022, chapter 1. He was Patriotism in political orientation and has been described as one of the five most famous Mass media in Iran|Iranian journalists in the 1941-57 period.Iran Nameh: Journal of the Foundation for Iranian Studies, vol. 16, Bethesda, 1998. In 1929 he launched a social and literary journal, Taraghi ("Progress") and continued as its director and chief editor until its closure in 1965.Goulia Ghardashkhani, Another Place: Identity, Space, and Transcultural Signification in Goli Taragqi's Fiction, Leiden, 2018, p. 2. He also founded and was the editor of the literary journal Āsiā-ye javān (Young Asia) for some time.Franklin Lewis, "Review: Winter Sleep by Goli Taraqqi (translated by Francine Mahak)", Iranian Studies (journal)|Iranian Studies, vol. 32: 1, 1999, p. 167.
== Historical fiction writings ==
Illustration on the book cover of the first edition of Naseroddin Shah's Love-Affairs (1960)
Lotfollah Taraghi had a deep interest in Historical fictions and stories.Hasan Abedini, Farhang-e Dāstān-nevisān-e Irān (Lexicon of Iranian Short Story Writer), Tehran, 1990, p. 54. He is primarily known for his popular short story collection Naseroddin Shah's Love-Affairs ('Eshqbāzihā-ye Nāseroddin Shāh), which depicts the life in the harem of the Qajar Iran Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. The stories are focused on Jeyran (wife of Naser al-Din Shah), the king's first Mistress (lover)|mistress and subsequently favourite wife.Staci Gem Scheiwiller, Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Iranian Photography Desirous Bodies, New York & London, 2016, p. 44.
Taraghis book Naseroddin Shah's Love-Affairs ('Eshqbāzihā-ye Nāseroddin Shāh) provided inspiration for the Iranian historical romance television series Jeyran (TV series)|Jeyran (جیران, 2022), written and directed by Hassan Fathi.
== Selected work ==
* The Djinn in the Hamam of Sangalaj (Jenn dar hammām-e Sangalaj) (1928)Goulia Ghardashkhani, Another Place: Identity, Space, and Transcultural Signification in Goli Taragqi's Fiction, Leiden, 2018, p. 2.
* The Indian Lady (Bānu-ye hendi) (1930)Goulia Ghardashkhani, Another Place: Identity, Space, and Transcultural Signification in Goli Taragqi's Fiction, Leiden, 2018, p. 2.
* Baghdad Nights: Harun al-Rashid's Love for the Daughter of the Iranian General Azarin (Shab-hā-ye Baghdād: Deldādegi-ye Hārun be doxtar-e Āzarin sardār-e irāni) (2 vols.) (1952)Hasan Abedini, Farhang-e Dāstān-nevisān-e Irān (Lexicon of Iranian Short Story Writer), Tehran, 1990, p. 89.
* Naseroddin Shah's Love-Affairs ('Eshqbāzihā-ye Nāseroddin Shāh) (1960). Re-published several times as Jeyran and the Secrets of Naseroddin Shah's Harem (Jeyrān va asrār-e haramsarā-ye Nāseroddin Shāh)Hasan Abedini, Farhang-e Dāstān-nevisān-e Irān (Lexicon of Iranian Short Story Writer), Tehran, 1990, p. 89.
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