Dr. Zahra Riahi-Zamin, a Persian Language and Literature professor at Shiraz University, has been awarded the fourth Biennial Book Award of Fars.

According to the Public Relations Office of Shiraz University, the awards ceremony took place on Sunday, January 18, organized by the Fars Department of Culture and Islamic Guidance, with the presence of the ministerial advisor of Culture and Islamic Guidance, the CEO of the House of Book and Literature of Iran, and numerous intellectuals, writers, publishers, and book enthusiasts at the Hafez Hall in Shiraz. During this event, the winners of the fourth Biennial Book Award in Fars Province were announced and honoured.

Dr. Riahi-Zamin was recognized for her work in editing the book "Translation of the Quran at Shahcheragh Museum (Ancient Persian Translation)." 

Born in 1960, Dr. Riahi-Zamin is a full professor at Shiraz University, where she completed her bachelor's (1988), master's (1992), and doctoral (2007) degrees. Her academic contributions include the authorship, editing, and writing of approximately one hundred books and articles. Notable works include "Practical Rules of the Arabic Language" (2017), "Forat al-Dowleh Shirazi" (2021), "Biographies and Collected Works of Sheikh Kabir Shiraz Ibn Khafif" (2023), and the edited "Translation of the Quran at Shahcheragh" (2022).

The manuscript of the Quran translation at Shahcheragh Museum is considered one of the valuable translations of the Holy Quran, featuring beautiful Persian vocabulary and phrases. It is bound in two volumes and cataloged in the museum's manuscript office under numbers 297 and 298, and in the library of the Ahmadian shrine under rows 1 and 2 with registration numbers 1715 and 1716. This manuscript includes about 23 parts of an ancient Quran translation. Due to the damage at the beginning and end of the book, the translator, scribe, and date of writing are unknown. However, the writing of the text and translation is estimated to date back to the 7th to 9th centuries, while the Persian translation is believed to have been derived from an even older translation, likely from the 5th century AH. Dr. Zahra Riahi-Zamin's edited version of the Quran translation at Shahcheragh (Ancient Persian Translation) was published in 2022 by the Written Heritage Research Institute, comprising a 104-page introduction and 459 pages of text.