Mostar (IP) - Imanipour, head of Islamic Culture and Communication Organization, met Adnan Velagić, Minister of Science, Culture and Sports of Herzegovin Region in Mostar.

Iran PressEurope: According to the Iran Press news agency reporting  from Sarajevo, in this meeting, in which Abuzar Ebrahimi, the ambassador of Iran to Sarajevo , Hossein Divsalar, the secretary of the Supreme Council of the Organization of Islamic Culture and Communications, and Mohammad Hossein Ansari, the cultural attaché  of Iran , accompanied Imanipour, the head of the Organization of Islamic Culture and Communications, referring to Historical, cultural and religious commonalities and affinities, he said: 

"The beautiful and historical city of Mostar has been home to great writers and poets who have done a great service to promote the Persian language and literature in the Balkans, such as Fevzi Mostari who inspired the book of Bulbulstan about three hundred years ago from {Sa'di's }Golestan.

Referring to the sisterhood agreement between the two cities of Mostar and Isfahan, he emphasized the importance of mutual cooperation in scientific, cultural, artistic and library fields.

Fevzi Mostari (also spelled Fawzi or Fowzi; c. 1675–1747) was a Bosnian writer, who authored the Persian work Bulbulistan ("A Place of Nightingales"; also spelled Bolbolestān) in 1739. Written in imitation of the Golestan of Sa'di Shirazi (died 1291/2), it is the only extant prose work in Persian by a writer of Bosnian origin. It is viewed as an important artifact of the Bosnian literary tradition. He was born in Blagaj, near Mostar

Adnan Velagić, Minister of Science, Culture and Sports of Herzegovin Region, while appreciating and thanking the presence of the head of Islamic Culture and Communication Organization in Mostar, voiced his readiness to improve the level of scientific, cultural and sports cooperation.

The city of Mostar in the south of Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the most important cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina with its cultural and historical richness.

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