TEHRAN – The Indian Embassy in Tehran held a commemoration ceremony in honor of the recently deceased scholar of Indo-Persian studies in India, Professor Syyed Amir-Hassan Abedi, on Thursday.

Abedi died in New Delhi on May 4, 2011 at the age of 90 and several commemoration ceremonies have so far been held in his honor by Indian and Iranian scholars.
The Thursday ceremony was attended by a group of Iranian and Indian scholars in which the Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature director Gholamali Haddad-Adel, Professor Chandar Shehkar from the University of Delhi, and Sibi George, the Charge d’ Affairs at the Embassy of India in Tehran delivered short speeches.
Amir-Hassan Abedi was born in 1921 in Ghazipur, in the southeastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. He traveled to Iran in 1955 and continued to study Persian language and literature at the University of Tehran where he received his Ph.D.
Afterwards, he returned to India and began to teach Persian language and Urdu at the University of Delhi. He was next appointed as the director of the Persian language and literature department of the University of Delhi
Abedi was invited to Iran several times during his life and attended numerous programs and congresses. Over 250 articles and lectures by Prof. Abedi have been published in magazines and periodicals in India and many other countries. He also authored about 25 books.