DAMASCUS -- To commemorate the 50th death anniversary of Allameh Seyed Mohsen Amin which coincides with the 110th anniversary of the establishment of Mohsenieh School of Damascus by him, a commemoration service was held in Damascus on Saturday night, ending on Monday.

The three-day conference was cosponsored by the management of Aminieh School, the Tehran based World Forum for Proximity of Islamic School of Thoughts, and the cultural attache of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Damascus.

An Iranian delegation headed by Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri, the head of the forum took part at the conference.

During the inaugural session of the conference Iranian, Syrian and Lebanese literary figures and top religious authorities addressed the audience.

According to IRNA besides the scientific and jurisprudence panel discussions, a number of poetic gatherings, and sessions allocated to relating memories from the life span of the late Allameh Mohsen Amin by his own students and relatives, there was an exhibition in which manuscripts and stone prints of works by the late allameh were on display as a side activity of the conference.

Allameh Amin was born in 1876 in Jabal Amel region of Beirut and died in 1952 at 78.

He established a boys seminary, called the Alavi School, that was later renamed on to 'Mohsenieh' after his demise and in his own name, and a girls seminary called 'Yousefieh', both in Damascus.

In 1923 in order to acquire the necessary information to compile his famous Islamic encyclopedia he left Iraq for Iran. In Iran he studied rare books in Kermanshah, Hamedan, Qom and Tehran libraries.

The most important works of Allameh Seyed Mohsen Amin are on religious, literary, and historic fields, including stories and poems.