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Iran to honor scholars of Islamic sciences and humanities today
TEHRAN, Oct. 23(MNA) -- The fourth edition of the Farabi International Festival opens today at Tehran’s Summit Conference Hall.
The Ministry of Science, Research and Technology organized the festival, which focuses on research on Islamic sciences and the humanities.
A Muslim philosopher and a prominent musician, Farabi (c. 878-950) was regarded in the Arab world as the greatest philosophical authority after Aristotle.
Secretary of the program Gholamreza Khajesarvi gave some details about the one-day festival in a press conference held here on Thursday, the Public Relations Office of the ministry reported.
“The purpose of the Farabi festival is to help reinforce the religious perspective toward the human sciences. Applying the human sciences in removing problems from a society is also among the topics to be discussed at the festival,” Khajesarvi said.
The festival also aims to build positive attitudes in society and increase motivation among the youth, he remarked.
He next said that over 2,300 articles were submitted to the secretariat within a short period of time, adding that 37 Iranian and 9 foreign articles have been selected for presentation at the session.
The foreign articles have come from Austria, Germany, Russia, the United States, Japan, Iraq and Syria.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Science Minister Kamran Daneshju are slated to give brief addresses at the ceremony.
International expert Wilfred Madelung, the senior research fellow at the Institute for Ismaili Studies in London and author of the book “The Succession to Muhammad (S) - A Study of the Early Caliphate” will be delivering a keynote speech at the opening ceremony.
French archeologists Jean-François Perrot is also among the guests who will be delivering short speeches.
Tribute will also be paid to Wilfred Madelung and Jean-François Perrot for their lifetime efforts in introducing Iranian civilization to the world.
Farabi’s philosophical thinking was nourished in the heritage of the Arabic Aristotelian teachings of 10th-century Baghdad, says the Encyclopedia Britannica.
His great service to Islam was to take the Greek heritage, as it had become known to the Arabs, and show how it could be used to answer questions with which Muslims were struggling at that time.
The Ministry of Science, Research and Technology organized the festival, which focuses on research on Islamic sciences and the humanities.
A Muslim philosopher and a prominent musician, Farabi (c. 878-950) was regarded in the Arab world as the greatest philosophical authority after Aristotle.
Secretary of the program Gholamreza Khajesarvi gave some details about the one-day festival in a press conference held here on Thursday, the Public Relations Office of the ministry reported.
“The purpose of the Farabi festival is to help reinforce the religious perspective toward the human sciences. Applying the human sciences in removing problems from a society is also among the topics to be discussed at the festival,” Khajesarvi said.
The festival also aims to build positive attitudes in society and increase motivation among the youth, he remarked.
He next said that over 2,300 articles were submitted to the secretariat within a short period of time, adding that 37 Iranian and 9 foreign articles have been selected for presentation at the session.
The foreign articles have come from Austria, Germany, Russia, the United States, Japan, Iraq and Syria.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Science Minister Kamran Daneshju are slated to give brief addresses at the ceremony.
International expert Wilfred Madelung, the senior research fellow at the Institute for Ismaili Studies in London and author of the book “The Succession to Muhammad (S) - A Study of the Early Caliphate” will be delivering a keynote speech at the opening ceremony.
French archeologists Jean-François Perrot is also among the guests who will be delivering short speeches.
Tribute will also be paid to Wilfred Madelung and Jean-François Perrot for their lifetime efforts in introducing Iranian civilization to the world.
Farabi’s philosophical thinking was nourished in the heritage of the Arabic Aristotelian teachings of 10th-century Baghdad, says the Encyclopedia Britannica.
His great service to Islam was to take the Greek heritage, as it had become known to the Arabs, and show how it could be used to answer questions with which Muslims were struggling at that time.
