IQNA – The handwritten Quran bound in gazelle leather dating back to A.D. 1090, with exquisite calligraphy, is on display at a public library in Turkey’s Kutahya.

IQNA – Head of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) Hojat-ol-Islam Mohammad Mehdi Imanipour met with Patriarch Ieronymos II, the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, in Athens.

IQNA – The Organization of Libraries, Museums and Documents of Imam Reza Shrine has called for submissions to the Fourteenth International Festival of Razavi Book of Year in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad.

IQNA – The French capital of Paris is slated to play host to an international conference on “Islam and Ways for Freedom and Tolerance” this week.

IQNA – A series of old copies of the Holy Quran and Islamic works has been put on show at the Museum of Kazan in the capital of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan.

IQNA – The head of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) said Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, who was martyred in chopper crash on Sunday, tirelessly support the field of culture and cultural diplomacy.

IQNA – The head of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization said Iran will soon appoint a cultural envoy to the Gaza Strip.

IQNA – Ayatollah Ali al-Kourani, a renowned Lebanese scholar in the history of Shiism, passed away on Saturday, May 19.

IQNA – A Shia cleric and preacher in Britain says Muslims there love teachings of Ahl al-Bayt (AS).

IQNA – During a workshop held at an arts exhibition underway in Tehran a large number of calligraphers wrote Surah Al-Fil of the Holy Quran.

IQNA – Syrian calligrapher Ubaidah Muhammad Salih Al-Banki described having the opportunity to calligraphy a Mus’haf as a divine blessing and a great source of honor.

IQNA – It is only Islam that offers an alternative to the domineering civilization of the West today, the president of Al-Mustafa International University said.