TEHRAN- The third edition of the national and international commemoration of Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi concluded with a closing ceremony at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Sunday.

The event featured the reading of Iran's Persistent Ebrahim Raisi's message, the presence of the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Mohammad-Mehdi Esmaeili, professors of Persian language and literature, and foreign ambassadors.

the closing ceremony included honoring Nezami scholars, unveiling of works, and awarding prizes to selected books on the subject of Nezami, IRNA reported on Monday.

Iranian scholars Mohammad Baqer Aqamiri and Saeid Hamidian, along with Russian academician Yevgeny Eduardovich, were appreciated as Nezami studies professors.

During the ceremony, Majid Shah Hosseini, head of the Academy of Arts, was awarded a prize for his book "Khamsa Shah Tahmasbi".

Hiva Hassanpur and Seyyed Vafa-Ali Miremadi were honored for their exceptional works in the thesis section.

For the past two years, with the collaboration of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and the Society for the National Heritage of Iran, a week dedicated to honoring the scientific, cultural, and literary legacy of Nezami has been celebrated from March 4 to 11 at national and international levels. The week highlighted the cultural representations of the Islamic Republic of Iran abroad, showcasing various cultural and artistic events.

Mostly known for “Khamseh”, Nezami Ganjavi brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic. His masterpieces have been composed entirely in Persian, without even a single verse in the Azerbaijani language.

Two rare copies of “Khamseh” are preserved in Iran and were inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register list in 2011.

“Khamseh” is a pentalogy of poems written in Masnavi verse form (rhymed couplets) with a total of 30,000 couplets. 

These five poems include the didactic work Makhzan ol-Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries); the three traditional love stories of Khosrow and Shirin, Leili and Majnun, and Haft Paykar; and the Eskandar-nameh, which records the adventures of Alexander the Great.

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