Herat Played Host to Isfahan School Pre- congress 

The Congress, "Passage from Herat Cultural-Artistic School to Isfahan" went underway in Herat, Afghanistan on November 25.

After Georgia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan pre-congresses, this is the forth pre-congress of Isfahan School being held outside of Iran, reported the Public Relations of the Academy of Arts quoting from the secretariat of the conference.

Herat congress was a prologue to Isfahan School Grand Conference which is to be held in Tehran and Isfahan on December 10-14. Dr. Ja'far Yahaqi, as the scholarly secretary of Herat congress headed the program.

The Afghani Scholars who participated at the session were Masters Mohammad-Mas'oud Raja'ei, Muhammad-Davood Monir and Muhammad-Tofiq Rahmani who presented their articles respectively: "The Stylistic Similarities of Herat School and Hindi School", "Literary ploys in Asefi Heravi's Discourse" and "The Artistic Features of Behzad's Painting." Dr. Bahman Namvar Motlaq, the secretary of Isfahan School Conference from Iran represented an article, "The Artistic Management in Herat and Isfahan Schools." Other Iranian scholars with their articles and lectures included: Hamid-Reza Qelichkhani with "The Career and Works of Mir-Ali Heravi", Ya'qoub Danesh-Doost, "The Style of Timurid Architecture", Seyyed Mahdi Seyyedi, "The Political-Cultural Status of Herat before the Shift of Power to Isfahan" and Hussein Razaqi with "The Artistic Association of Isfahan and Herat Schools."

In the last part, Dr. Muhammad-Ja'far Yahaqi presented his article titled, "An Observation of Literary Associations of Herat and Isfahan."

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