KULOB, January 30, 2014, Asia-Plus -- Preparations for and celebration of the 700th anniversary of a prominent Muslim scholar Mir Syed Ali Hamadani will cost Tajikistan at 9.3669 million somoni (TJS), Kulob chief architect Nouriddin Bozorov told Asia-Plus Thursday afternoon.

“7.3205 million somoni will be provided by the national budget, 1.805 million somoni will be provided by the Kulob authorities and 241,400 somoni will be provided by local entrepreneurs,” Bozorov noted.

According to him, a major part of the provided funds -- 5.85 million somoni -- will go to financing reconstruction of Kulob City Park, where the Mir Syed Ali Hamadani museum complex is located.

Mir Syed Ali bin Shahab-ud-Din Hamadani (1314-1384) was a Persian Sufi of the Kubrawi order, a poet and a prominent Muslim scholar.  He was born in 1314 in Hamadan and died in 1384 in Kunar and was buried in Khatlon.  He was very influential in spreading Islam in Kashmir and has had a major hand in shaping the culture of the Kashmir valley. He was also known as “Shah Hamadan” ("King of Hamadan", Iran) and as Amir-i Kabir ("the Great Commander").  He wrote several short works on spirituality and Sufism.

Mir Syed Ali Hamadani was born in a noble family in Hamadan.  He traced his patrimony through his father, Syed Shahab Uddin, to Imam Zain-ul-Abedein and finally to Hazrat Ali.  His mother, Syeda Fatimah, with seventeen links, reached the Prophet.