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The Organization for Researching and Composing University textbooks in the Humanities (Persian : سازمان مطالعه و تدوین کتب علوم انسانی دانشگاه‌ها) or SAMT* [1] (Persian : سمت) is a public organization and publisher in Iran established by the "High Council for Cultural Revolution" after the Iranian Cultural Revolution in 1985. The organization publishes academic textbooks and sources on humanities in Iranian universities.

Persian language Western Iranian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi, is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and some other regions which historically were Persianate societies and considered part of Greater Iran. It is written right to left in the Persian alphabet, a modified variant of the Arabic script, which itself evolved from the Aramaic alphabet.

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  1. Abbreviation of Saazman-e-Motale'e va Tadvin-e-kotob oloum-e-ensani-edaneshgah ha in Persian.

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