Syed Ghayyur Hussain, an academician and expert of Persian, will take the class every Friday. The class is being launched keeping in view the demand by the Persian lovers in the city.
Javed Nama’, or Book of Eternity, was first published in the year 1932. The work is inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy, and just as Dante’s guide was ‘Virgil’, Iqbal is guided by Moulana Rumi.
The Cultural Centre of the Islamic Republic of Iran or Khana-e-Farhang has been offering literary and cultural services in Peshawar for the past many years.
The centre arranges Persian learning, art and calligraphy classes besides providing a platform to local literati to promote native languages.
Syed Ghayyur Hussain has been teaching Persian at the centre for over three decades. He has to his credit several books.
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Islamabad, Dec 22, IRNA - Iran Cultural Centre (Khana-e-Farhang) in Pakistan’s north western city of Peshawar is going to start classes on poet-philosopher Iqbal Lahori’s Persian masterpiece ‘Javed Nama’.
