Kamran Fani’s body escorted to final resting place

According to Khabaronline News Agency, quoting ISNA, Kamran Fani became a librarian at a time when librarianship was virtually unknown, and librarians were mostly recognized as warehouse keepers or people who handed out books behind the library desk. He was employed by the National Library in December 1971. Today (Monday, Azar 24th), his colleagues and enthusiasts gathered at the National Archives and Library Organization to escort his body to his eternal home in the Hall of Immortals section of Behesht Zahra cemetery.

Kamran Fani’s funeral ceremony was held without speeches, featuring only the funeral prayer. Attendees included Mohammad Reza Shafiei Kadkani, Hassan Anvari, Zhaleh Amouzegar, Nasrullah Pourjavadi, Ali Ashraf Sadeghi, Hossein Masoumi Hamedani, Ali Ravaghi, Mahmoud Abedi, Gholamreza Amirkhani (Head of the National Archives and Library Organization), Azadeh Nazarboland (Secretary-General of the Public Libraries Institution), Abdolkarim Jarbozedar, Mostafa Asi, Mohammad Dabir Moghaddam, Mahmoud Fotouhi, Mohammadreza Torki, Mohammad Jafar Yahaghi, Ali Bahramian, Masoud Jafari Jazii, Niknam Hosseinipour (Director General of Public Relations at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance), Soheil Mahmoudi, Asadollah Amraei, Farhad Taheri, and Omid Tabibzadeh.

Furthermore, a memorial service for the late Kamran Fani will be held on Tuesday, Azar 25, 1404 (calendar date), at 10 AM in the Pen Hall of the International Convention Center of the National Archives and Library Organization of Iran.

According to ISNA, Kamran Fani was born on April 14, 1944, in Qazvin and held a master’s degree in librarianship. In 2003, he became a continuous member of the Council of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. Fani was a faculty member of the National Library and also served as the head of the Iranology section of this organization for a period.

Some of Kamran Fani’s works include: Persian Subject Headings, Classification of Iranian History, Classification of Islamic Philosophy, Subject Dictionary of the Holy Quran, World Wars I and II, Encyclopedia of Shiism (author and editor), Encyclopedia for Children and Adolescents, Science in History, John Bernal (translation), Zoroaster, Politician or Magician?, Henning (translation), Beethoven’s Spiritual Path, Sullivan (translation), Pushkin’s Discourse, Dostoevsky (translation), The Seagull, Anton Chekhov (translation), R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), Karel Čapek (translation), Cat and Mouse, Günter Grass (translation).