List of books banned in Iran

Since the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979, the constitution of Iran states regarding freedom of expression: "the press is free to express their opinion, unless it is against the foundation of Islam or rights of the people, and the law will explain the details". (article 24, The Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran).[1]

And the details have only been explained, not in a legal legislation of the parliament, but in an act issued by the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, which names the subjects that "do not deserve to be published", for example: Renouncing the fundamentals of religion; promoting moral corruption; inviting the society to riot against the State of Islamic Republic of Iran; promoting the ideas of terrorist and illegal groups and corrupted sects and defending monarchy; stimulating conflicts between the various ethnic or religious groups or creating problems in the unity of the society and the country; mocking and weakening the national proud and nationalistic spirit, and creating an atmosphere of losing national values to the culture and civilization of western or eastern colonizing systems.[2] Since 1979, many books have been censored or banned by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran, although the government has only been accepting that it is censoring books by prior restraint, since 2005, when the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took power.

Books banned in Iran

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Title Author Type of literature References and notes
The Monkey Whose Owner Had Died Sadeq Chubak short stories [3]
The Patient Stone Sadeq Chubak short stories [3]
The Mourners of Bayal Gholam-Hossein Saedi short stories [3]
Dandyl Gholam-Hossein Saedi short stories [3]
Fear and Chills Gholam-Hossein Saedi short stories [3]
The Ball Gholam-Hossein Saedi short stories [3]
Her Eyes Bozorg Alavi novel [3]
A Tombstone on a Grave Jalal Al-e-Ahmad novel [3]
Mourning for Qasem Amir Hossein Cheheltan novel [3]
The Man Lost in Dust Nosrat Rahmani poetry [3]
Complete Poems of Ahmad Shamlu Ahmad Shamlu poetry [4]
A Girl with a Silver String Jamal Mirsadeqi novel [3]
Memories of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel García Márquez translated into Persian by Kaveh Mirabasi [5]
Scorpion on the Railroad Stairways of Andimeshk, or This Train is Bleeding Sir! Hossein Abkenar novel [6]
The Ceremonies of Impatience Yaghub Yadali short stories [6]
Social History of Iran Morteza Ravandi [6]
The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown novel Translated by Hossin Shahrabi [7]
The Blind Owl Sadeq Hedayat novel [8]
Gay Relations in Iranian Literature Sirus Shamisa literary essay [9]
The Veiled Women and the Armoured Elite Fatemeh Marnisi history [10]
The Zahir, Paulo Coelho Translated by Arash Hejazi
The Year Zero Ardalan Sarafraz novel [11]
داد بی‌داد، ویدا حاجبی، انتشارات بازتاب نگار [11]‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍
Lessons to Avoid AIDS [12]
Poverty and Adultery Masood Dehnamaki [13]‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍
Short Stories, Sadeq Hedayat [14]‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍
Opium Shiva Arastooi short stories [15]‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍
The Book of Jinn Houshang Golshiri novel, [16]‍
He Learned from Satan and Burnt It Farkhondeh Aghaii novel [17]
Women without Men Shahrnoosh Parsipour novel [18]‍‍‍‍‍‍‍
The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzakis [19]‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍
(all books) Sadeq Hedayat [20]‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍
Cockcrow Ebrahim Golestan short stories خروس،
The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right Jean-Jacques Rousseau [21]‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍
Towards Destiny Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani [22]

References

  1. ^ diaries of an Iranian editor (Arash Hejazi)
  2. ^ [1988 Act of the Guidelines to Publish Books, by the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution of Islamic Republic of Iran]
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k سانسور کتاب- کارنامه یک وزیر ایرانی
  4. ^ Bookfiesta literary magazine
  5. ^ خبرگزاری فارس: آخرين رمان «ماركز» توقيف شد
  6. ^ a b c روزنامه کارگزاران: هیچكس پاسخگو نیست
  7. ^ خبر بی‌بی‌سی در مورد ممنوعیت انتشار کتاب
  8. ^ خبر ممنوعیت انتشار بوف کور
  9. ^ شاهدبازی در ادبیات فارسی
  10. ^ خبر بی‌بی‌سی: جمع آوری 'زنان پرده نشین و نخبگان جوشن پوش
  11. ^ a b گزارش جمع آوری کتاب در نمایشگاه هجدهم کتاب
  12. ^ گزارش جمع آوری کتاب آموزش‌های پیشگیری از ایدز
  13. ^ گزارش جمع آوری کتاب فقر و فحشا
  14. ^ گزارش جمع آوری کتاب زنده به گور از سایت بی بی سی
  15. ^ رمان ”افیون” نوشته شیوا ارسطویی از وزارت فرهنگ ارشاد اسلامی مجوز چاپ نگرفت
  16. ^ رمان ”جن نامه” نوشته هوشنگ گلشیری از وزارت فرهنگ ارشاد اسلامی مجوز چاپ نگرفت
  17. ^ انتشار کتاب فرخنده آقایی ممنوع شد
  18. ^ گفتگو با شهرنوش پارسی پور
  19. ^ مروری بر آثار کازانتزاکیس
  20. ^ آيا نام اين نويسنده، انتشار كتاب را متوقف مي‌كند؟
  21. ^ پیدا کردن کتاب ممنوع آسان است
  22. ^ کتاب خاطرات هاشمی رفسنجانی توقیف شد