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President Rouhani honors top researchers

Tehran, Jan 31, IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani honored 12 top researchers at the 7th Farabi International Festival here on Saturday. The researchers were awarded the Farabi International Festival's prize for their articles and books in the fields of Islamic and human sciences. The 7th Farabi International Festival opened in Tehran by President Rouhani. More than 2,348 works have been submitted to the secretariat of the festival of which 30 works were selected in 10 fields of the humanities. The event has two levels of participation: junior (under 35 years old) and senior for accepting considering and selecting dates submitted works both inside and outside the country which the latter is for non-Iranian scholars and researchers. It was named after Farabi, a Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scientists and philosophers in Iran and the Islamic World in his time. He was also a cosmologist, logician, musician, psychologist and sociologist.

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