TEHRAN -- Persian mystic and poet Mir Seyyed Ali bin Shahab-ud-Din Hamadani (1314-1385) was commemorated during a ceremony in Dushanbe on Saturday.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov and literati from Iran, India, Pakistan, Azerbaijan and several other countries attended the ceremony, which was held on the sidelines of the 5th Dushanbe International Book Exhibition, the Iran Cultural Fairs Institute announced on Sunday.

The director of Iran’s Sadi Foundation, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, and a group of Iranian literati, including Alireza Qazveh and Nasser Feiz, were also in attendance at the event.

Earlier in October 2014, the Iran-Tajikistan Friendship Society, Iran’s Islamic Culture and Relations Organization and the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO organized a conference to commemorate the 700th birth anniversary of Mir Seyyed Ali Hamadani.

The Iran-Tajikistan Friendship Society announced its plan to establish a foundation for the poet in collaboration with Tajikistan.

However, no other developments about the foundation have been announced yet.

UNESCO had registered the 700th birth anniversary of Mir Seyyed Ali Hamadani on its celebration list of anniversaries for 2014.
 
Mir Seyyed Ali Hamadani was born in the western Iranian city of Hamedan and died in Tajikistan. He was buried in the southern Tajik city of Kulob.
 
He was very influential in spreading Islam in Kashmir and had a major hand in shaping the culture of the Kashmir valley.

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