Hello Arnoud
all I can say is that my last contact with Ehya-e-ketab was
fruitless. Bamberg had ordered from them about 5 times from
their extensive lists, about 80% of these orders actually
arrived. Our last order (from May '97, quite big, about 50
titles) led to nothing but a few faxes of me asking for the
titles. I received one answer and then nothing arrived
anymore, neither faxes or books. I suspect that they were
part of Irshad ministry. At least they were also publishing
religious books in cooperation or as a part of the Irshad
(e.g. the 10 vol. concordance of Ali Barazish:
AUTHOR: Barazish, Ali Riza
| TITLE: al-Mujam :
| al-Mujam al-mufahras li-alfaz ahadith al-kutub
al-arbaah (al- | Kafi, Man la-yahduruhu al-faqih,
al-Tahdhib, al-Istibsar) / | EDITION: Chap-i 1. | PLACE:
Tahran : |PUBLISHER: Ihya Kitab, | YEAR: 1994 ), as
the colophon and the address was telling. Now the Irshad
has been restructured a few times in the recent past, most
notably after the presidential election. My guess is that
they stopped business, at least as a bookseller. Maybe they
continue as a publishing house although in recent times I
didn't see any titles published by them anymore.
Hope this helps!
Andreas
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