Iran holds Persian manuscripts confab - Gayo Lues
Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini and Senior Iranian Lawmaker Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel along with a number of cultural officials and scholars attended the conference held on July 11, 2012.
Many international experts and scholars on Persian language and literature also took part in the conference.
Meanwhile, a program on the sidelines of the event paid tribute to Arif Naushahi, a Pakistani expert in Persian language for his efforts in the Persian language education in South Asia.
Naushahi’s recent book, a comprehensive bibliography on his contributions to the Persian language education in the subcontinent, was unveiled during a ceremony.
The 57-year-old Naushahi currently chairs the Persian Language Department of Gordon College, Rawalpindi in Pakistan. He completed his Ph.D. in Persian language and literature at the University of Tehran in 1993.
Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the National Museum of Pakistan, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu in Karachi and Catalogue of the Urdu Manuscripts in Ganj Bakhsh Library of Islamabad are some of Naushahi’s published remarkable works.
source: Presstv.ir
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