Iran to honor Pakistani scholar Naushahi

The ceremony will be part of a conference set to be held on Persian manuscripts and printed texts from the subcontinent of India on July 11, 2012.

A book will also be unveiled about Naushahi’s efforts in Persian language education in South Asia.

The 57-year-old Naushahi specializes in Persian literature and completed his Ph.D. in Persian language and literature at the University of Tehran in 1993.

He is currently the head of the Persian Language Department of Gordon College, Rawalpindi.

Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the National Museum of Pakistan, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu in Karachi and Catalogue of the Urdu Manuscripts in Ganj Bakhsh Library of Islamabad are among Naushahi’s better known works.

His main contribution to bibliographical works is A Bibliography of Litho-Print and Rare Persian Books in Ganj Bakhsh Library of Islamabad and A Bibliography of Persian Books Printed in the Subcontinent since 1780 to 2008.

Naushahi will also deliver a speech about the history of bibliography in the subcontinent of India during the Persian manuscripts and printed texts confab.

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