TEHRAN -- A group of Iranian intellectuals are to discuss the personality of Prophet Muhammad (S) during a conference to be held on Oct. 7 on the sidelines of the 58th Frankfurt Book Fair, Iranian cultural attaché in Germany announced on Tuesday.

The Iranian Institute of Philosophy head Gholamreza A’vani, the head of Iran’s Association of Cultural Figures Mehdi Mohaqqeq, Iranian Ambassador to Berlin Mohammad-Mehdi Akhundzadeh, and scores of Iranian and German scholars will attend the conference.

Iranian cultural attaché is scheduled to set up Iran’s pavilion at the fair, which will be held from Oct. 4 to 8.

Cooperative Union for Publishers, Cultural Exhibitions Institute, and National Library and Documentation Center of Iran will be also participating in the fair.

Representatives from book publishing and multimedia companies from all over the world come to the event to negotiate international publication rights and license fees.

The fair is organized by an affiliate of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association and takes place every October.

Around 6,700 exhibitors and more than 270,000 visitors take part at the five-day largest book fair of the world.

The Frankfurt Book Fair is an important event that facilitates the trade of the international publication rights and licenses.

Visitors take the opportunity to obtain information about the publication market, to establish network, and to do business.

Publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, academics, illustrators, service providers, film producers, translators, printers, professional and trade associations, institutions, artists, authors, antiquarians, and software and multimedia suppliers all attend the meet.

In 2004, over 12,000 journalists from 92 countries gave a wide coverage to the fair that brought together 6,691 individual exhibitors, 79 national exhibitors, and 180,000 trade visitors.