TEHRAN -- Late Tajik scholar Muhammad Shakuri Bukhara’i has passed the legal ownership of his books over to the Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature according to his last will and testament.
His widow, Delafruz Ekrami, and son, Rustam Shakurov, attended a meeting at the Iranian Embassy in Dushanbe on Sunday and handed over a copy of Shakuri Bukhara’i’s last will and testament to Ambassador Ali-Asghar Sherdust, the Persian service of IRNA reported on Monday.
According to the document, Shakuri Bukhara’i has transferred permanent ownership of his manuscript books to the academy and an Iranian-Tajik council will decide on publication of the works.
The council is composed of the director of the Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature, the Iranian ambassador, and two Tajik and Iranian experts on the Persian literature.
“Shakuri Bukhara’i’s personal library contains 6500 books, and cataloging the extensive collection has begun in a collaborative effort by his widow, the Iranian Embassy, and the National Library of Tajikistan,” Sherdust said.
A member of the Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature, Shakuri Bukhara’i died at the age of 87 in Dushanbe on September 16, 2012.
He was author of over 40 books and 500 articles on Persian literature.
Shakuri was honored at Iran’s Eternal Figures Gathering in 2005 for his achievements in Persian literature.
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