Iran Press/ Iran news: Delivering a speech as a key participant of the ceremony, Iran's Minister of Culture Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili described Hakim Nezami as a pillar of Iran's unity.
Esmaili said: "The grand Iranian [historical] celebrities are each a great asset to Iran's identity, and it is a matter of pride that sage scholars are abundant and accessible throughout the glorious history of Iran."
The minister of culture pointed out that Iran was an integrated whole that could not be fragmented with political bordering, with the Hakim being one of the many pillars of unity of the country.
The first edition of the Hakim Nezami Award was held on Thursday evening in Tehran's Vahdat Hall.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Commission in Iran hosted the ceremony, with several artists and cultural figures participating in the event.
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Nezami lived in an age of both political instability and intense intellectual activity, which his poems reflect; but little is known about his life, his relations with his patrons, or the precise dates of his works, as the many legends built up around the poet color the accounts of his later biographers.
The Hakim has a Panj Ganj or Khamsa ( The Five Treasures), which itself includes Makhzan-ol-Asrâr (The Treasury or Storehouse of Mysteries), Khosrow and Shirin, Leyla and Majnun, The Book of Alexander, and The Seven Beauties.
March 12 is known as Hakim Nezami day in Iran.
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