Isfahan; City of Myths and Living Heritage in the Narration of the 913th Night of Bukhara

According to the reporter of Iran Book News Agency (IBNA) in Isfahan, Bahar Book City in Isfahan hosted the 913th Night of Bukhara on the evening of Azar 1st. This program, themed ‘Isfahan Night,’ with the presence of researchers, writers, and critics, provided an opportunity to revisit the city’s cultural and historical identity and examine its contemporary challenges.

Heshmatollah Entekhabi, an Isfahan researcher, began his speech by reciting a text from a 6th-century book, introducing Isfahan as equivalent to paradise, stating that this city is worthy of praise not only for its residents but for all enthusiasts of history and culture.

Entekhabi added: “Isfahan is one of the few cities that are considered exemplary and mythical, and a renowned philosopher like Henri Corbin also introduced it as a symbolic, eternal, and mythological city in the introduction to the book ‘Isfahan’.”

Heshmatollah Entekhabi, Isfahan researcher