Promoting Persian: Shah Hamadan Chair set up at AJK varsity
Iranian Cultural Attaché Taqi Sadeqi inaugurated the Shah Hamadan Chair in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) University city campus here on Monday aimed at promoting Persian language and literature in the region.
He said Kashmir is a “real paradise and every Iranian wants to visit this heaven on earth.” Sadeqi said that Persian had remained the language of the region, so the people of Pakistan and Kashmir should not treat it like an alien language.
The diplomat said that Persian had remained a language of communication in the region for hundreds of years. The establishment of the Shah Hamadan Chair in AJK university will help cement brotherly relations between the two countries.
He said that Tehran would provide scholarships to Kashmiri students for pursuing Mphil and PhD degrees at Iranian universities.
AJK University Vice-Chancellor Dr Dilnawaz Gardezi said that the establishment of Shah Hamadan Chair would provide an opportunity to increase university’s cooperation with higher educational institutes of Iran.
Dr Gardezi hailed the role of the Cultural Consul of Iran for setting up Shah Hamadan Chair. A number of faculty members and students of the university attended the ceremony.
Shah Hamadan (or the King of Hamadan) was the title given by the people of Kashmir to renowned poet and scholar Mir Syed Ali Hamadani (1314-1385) who visited the valley thrice in his lifetime and spread Islam.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 24th, 2014.
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