TEHRAN -- Iran and Tajikistan will jointly celebrate the 700th birth anniversary of the Persian Sufi and scholar Mir Seyyed Ali bin Shahab-ud-Din Hamadani in 2014.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has registered the occasion on its celebration list of anniversaries for 2014, the Secretary-General of Tajikistan National Commission for UNESCO Abdurahimova Shahlo Rustamovna said in a press release published by the Persian service of IRNA on Wednesday.
Early this year Iran and Tajikistan, with the support of India and Pakistan, submitted the proposal to UNESCO for holding the 700th birth anniversary of Hamadani.
Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (1314-1385), mystic and poet and a prominent Muslim scholar, was born in the central Iranian city of Hamadan and died in Tajikistan’s city of Kunar and was buried in Khatlan.
He was very influential in spreading Islam in Kashmir and had a major hand in shaping the culture of the Kashmir valley.
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