Neyshabur Archives - Iran News Daily https://irannewsdaily.com/tag/neyshabur/ Fri, 18 May 2018 19:25:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 https://irannewsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-iranlogo-32x32.png Neyshabur Archives - Iran News Daily https://irannewsdaily.com/tag/neyshabur/ 32 32 Khayyam National Day celebrated in Neyshabur https://irannewsdaily.com/2018/05/khayyam-national-day-celebrated-in-neyshabur/ https://irannewsdaily.com/2018/05/khayyam-national-day-celebrated-in-neyshabur/#respond Sat, 19 May 2018 04:50:41 +0000 https://irannewsdaily.com/?p=27840 TEHRAN — A number of Persian scholars, poets and officials gathered at the mausoleum of Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) in his homeland of Neyshabur on Friday to celebrate the national day of the great Iranian mathematician, astronomer and poet. The city also hosted several other meetings, seminars and workshops of photography, calligraphy and sculptures on Khayyam. […]

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]]> TEHRAN — A number of Persian scholars, poets and officials gathered at the mausoleum of Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) in his homeland of Neyshabur on Friday to celebrate the national day of the great Iranian mathematician, astronomer and poet.

The city also hosted several other meetings, seminars and workshops of photography, calligraphy and sculptures on Khayyam.

The Khayyam Neyshaburi School in his hometown celebrated Khayyam by ringing its bell in honor of the great figure of Persian classical literature on Wednesday.

In addition, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi and a number of Iranian and foreign poets attended the closing ceremony of a three-day congress on Ferdowsi and Khayyam in Mashhad on Friday.

Khayyam is chiefly known to English-speaking readers through the translation by the English writer Edward Fitzgerald of a collection of his rubaiyat (quatrains) in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859).

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]]> https://irannewsdaily.com/2018/05/khayyam-national-day-celebrated-in-neyshabur/feed/ 0 Neyshabur to host world literati for Attar conference https://irannewsdaily.com/2018/04/neyshabur-to-host-world-literati-for-attar-conference/ https://irannewsdaily.com/2018/04/neyshabur-to-host-world-literati-for-attar-conference/#respond Tue, 10 Apr 2018 05:50:14 +0000 https://irannewsdaily.com/?p=25451 TEHRAN – Literati from across the world will come together in Neyshabur next week to commemorate the Persian poet and mystic Farid ud-Din Attar (c. 1145-1221) in a conference. “The conference will open on April 13 in Neyshabur, the birthplace of Attar, and will continue the next day, which is Attar National Day this year,” […]

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]]> TEHRAN – Literati from across the world will come together in Neyshabur next week to commemorate the Persian poet and mystic Farid ud-Din Attar (c. 1145-1221) in a conference.

“The conference will open on April 13 in Neyshabur, the birthplace of Attar, and will continue the next day, which is Attar National Day this year,” Hassan Bolkhari, the director of the Iranian Society of Cultural Works and Luminaries that is the organizer of the meeting said in a press conference on Monday.

The conference will continue at the society in Tehran on April 16 and bust of Attar is scheduled to be unveiled in the courtyard of the society during the event, he added.

A new edition of Attar’s Khosrow-Nama and a biography of him are also scheduled to be released during the conference.

Attar is also the composer of the masterpieces Asrar-Nama, Mantiq at-Tayr (Conference of the Birds), Mosibat-Nama, Elahi-Nama, Mokhtar-Nama, and Tadkerat al-Awliya.

Photo: The mausoleum of Persian poet Farid ud-Din Attar in Neyshabur

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