This edition of the festival was held in Tehran on Sunday after a three-year hiatus, and winners received their awards from Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Abbas Salehi.

A Tetragonal Pattern for the Assessment of Humanities by Seyyed Amin Qanei and Conceptual and Local Metaphors in the Quran by Hojjatoleslam Alireza Qaeminia are among the books honored at the ceremony.

Morteza Farhadi, a professor at Allameh Tabatabai University, received an award for Kamarenameh, a micro anthropological study on the town of Kamareh in Central Province.

Abdolhamid Noqrekar from the Iran University of Science and Technology was also honored for his book A Clarification on Iranian-Islamic Architecture and Urban Planning.

Also among the honorees are Cultural Policies in Iranian State Universities by Fatemeh Javaheri of Kharazmi University and An Assessment of Historical Sources for the Shahnameh during the Reign of King Anushiruwan by Farzin Ghafuri, a member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature.

The History and Development of Book Publication in Iran by Abdolhossein Azarang from the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia won an award.

In addition, At Brother’s Home: Afghan Refugees in Iran by Arash Nasr Esfahani and The Cultural Model of Marriage and Childbearing among Persian-speaking Women by Leila Ardebili won honorable mentions.

Source: Tehran Times