.jpg "Iranian translator Seyyed Aliqoli Qarai (2nd from right) shakes hands with some officials before receiving his gift during a ceremony that the ICRO held in Tehran on December 15, 2014 to honor three translators of the Holy Quran. (IRNA/Ehsan Naderipur)")
TEHRAN – Three prominent translators of the Holy Quran were honored during a ceremony at the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization in Tehran on Monday.
Seyyed Aliqoli Qarai from Iran, Raúl González Bórnez from Spain and Sulaiman Baiji Su from China were presented with gifts at the ceremony.
A large number of academics and culture officials, including Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati, attended the ceremony.
Qarai, 68, was honored for his translation of the Quran into English. He is the director of the International Department of Iran’s Centre for Translation of the Holy Quran.
González Bórnez, 64, was also honored for his translation of Quran into Spanish. He has translated works by the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini, and several other Islamic texts into Spanish.
Baiji Su, 49, is a translator of the Holy Quran into Chinese. He has translated several Islamic books, including the Sahifeh Sajjadieh, a collection of supplications composed by Imam Sajjad (AS) from Persian into Chinese.
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