TEHRAN – Rey, a historical town in southern Tehran, will host a conference on Iranian poet and theologian Naser Khosrow Qubadiani (1004-c.1072/77) on Wednesday.

The one-day conference, which will be held at Farhanian University, aims to scrutinize Naser Khosrow’s allusions to Rey in his most-celebrated prose work, Safar-nameh (“Book of Travel”), a diary describing his seven-year journey.

The book has been translated into English under the title of “Diary of a Journey Through Syria and Palestine”.

A book fair, calligraphy workshop, literary contest and several other programs will be organized on the sidelines of the conference, which will be organized in collaboration with the National Library and Archives of Iran.

Naser Khosrow is also the author of the Rawshanai-nameh (“Book of Light”), which contains his philosophical poetry.

He also wrote more than a dozen treatises expounding the doctrines of the Ismailis, among them the Jami’ al-Hikmatayn (“Union of the Two Wisdoms”), in which he attempted to harmonize Ismaili theology and Greek philosophy.

Photo: A portrait of Naser Khosrow Qubadiani

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