Abdorrahim Jafari

Abdorrahim Jafari (; 1919–2015) was an Iranian publisher who founded Amir Kabir Publishers which by the 1960s would become the largest publishing firm in the Middle East.

Early life and career Jafari was born in Tehran on 3 November 1919. His father, a peddlar, deserted his mother soon after his birth and his mother brought him up as a single mother who supported her family by working as a weaver. in the heart of the city's Grand Bazaar district where he began publishing books.

Amir Kabir Publishers In 1949 he launched the firm Amir Kabir Publishers. Before this Persian publishing had been divided between publishers of religious texts and popular folk tales sold to the lower classes and with low production values and low prices, and, on the other hand, a few publishers issuing small runs of books of "artistic and scholarly merit" Other notable publications included a luxury edition of the Shahnameh (1971) featuring "calligraphy, miniatures, and ink drawings" In 2003–2007, he published an autobiography and In Search of Illumination, a video documentary was produced based on that work.

He died on 3 October 2015 at the age of 98 in a Tehran hospital. During the 1960s and 1970s, his publishing firm "used books as a means and played a vital role in enlightening the Iranian society". which was founded by his son Reza Jafari.