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Indian scholars honored with Sa’adi Award for Persian language contributions
The event, held at Jamia Millia Islamia University, was attended by Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, head of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature and the Sa’adi Foundation, along with Iranian Cultural Attaché Fariduddin Farid Asr, and prominent Persian scholars, ILNA reported.
For the first time, two additional awards were introduced: One for cataloging Persian manuscripts in India, presented by the Delhi-based Persian Research Center, and another for identifying Persian manuscripts, awarded by the Noor International Microfilm Center.
This year’s Sa’adi Award recipients included:
Syed Akhtar Husain, professor at the Center for Persian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Professor Aziz Bano, faculty member at the Department of Persian, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad.
Sharif Hussain Qasemi was honored for his work in cataloging and publishing Persian manuscripts, particularly the works of Bidel.
The Sa’adi Award, established in 2007 to mark the 50th anniversary of modern Iran-India cultural relations, aims to honor scholars who have dedicated their lives to preserving and promoting Persian in India.