TEHRAN -- Cinema Organization of Iran Director Hojjatolah Ayyubi has visited a number of ulama in Qom, which home to Iran’s largest Islamic seminary.
Islamic Seminaries of Iran Director Ayatollah Seyyed Hashem Hosseini Bushehri, Aemme-ye Athar Fiqh Center Director Ayatollah Mohammad-Javad Fazel Lankarani, and a number of teachers from the Qom Islamic Seminary were among those ulama that Ayyubi met.
He gave a report on films produced over the past year in Iran during his meetings with the ulama.
During the meeting, Ayatollah Hosseinin Bushehri talked about the great influence that cinema has on the society and asked Ayyubi to show more sensitivity to cinema.
Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani expressed his satisfaction with the close connection between Iranian cinema and religion and said that Iranian cineastes should improve their knowledge about religious and Islamic issues.
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