Adel Foundation Award in Classical Persian Poetry

Award descriptionAwards totalling $2,350 have been made available through an endowment established with donations from the Adel Foundation Fund, a donor-advised fund held at the Private Giving Foundation, in honour of Mahmoud Adel-Sabzevari, for outstanding students studying classical Persian poetry in the Department of Asian Studies. Preference will be given to students that have demonstrated an interest in Persian poetry through coursework and/or writing their own Persian poetry. After growing up as an orphan in poverty, Mahmoud Adel-Sabzevari studied History and Geography in the late 1930s at the University of Tehran. His expertise was wide-ranging and endured throughout his life: he was a renowned author, editor, translator and teacher in the arts and sciences, and aged 90 he translated a defining encyclopedic volume of Quranic works into Persian. His most significant passion was Persian literature, and this award has been created to honor his legacy. The awards are made on the recommendation of the Department of Asian Studies, and in the case of a graduate student, in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.