According to the curator of the National Library and Archives and Islamic Encyclopedia, the library is currently being constructed in a total area comprising 100,000 square meter of land.
“The library will be home to millions of books in various fields to meet the need of the Iranian and foreign scholars and researchers,” said Seyed Kazem Bojnourdi.
A sum of 330b rials is allocated toward the project. Scholars and researchers anywhere in the world can access the library via the website address www.irnli.com
The library will hold titles in Islamology, Iranology, art and architecture, literature, history, and geography.
He also talked about other ongoing projects including the production of three encyclopedias in Persian, Arabic and English, a book on the Iranian history, a general encyclopedia and holding the first-ever gathering of Iranian oral historians.
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