TEHRAN -- Chinese scholar Mu-hong Yan is slated to deliver lectures at a congress to be hosted jointly by Tehran and Tabriz from October 28 until 30 to commemorate Rumi’s 800th birth anniversary.

The theme of the discourses will be pacifism as depicted in the Masnavi, the masterpiece of the Persian poet Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi.
A Persian language graduate from the University of Peking, Mu-hong, 41, works for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
This prominent Chinese scholar has translated a number of chapters of Rumi’s Masnavi and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam into Chinese and has also authored over 30 articles on Persian classical literature.
One of Mu-hong’s articles examines the concepts of “lover” and “wine” in Persian poetry.
Modern Persian literary works including Sadeq Hedayat’s “Blind Owl” and Hushang Golshiri’s “Prince Ehtejab” have also been rendered into Chinese by this prolific translator