Iran's former Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Wilayati on 21 December 2011 released a 1000-year-old manuscript, Nahjul Balagha believed to be a collection of letters, speeches and aphorisms of the fourth Caliphate of Islam Hazrat Ali at Aligarh Muslim University.
The manuscript was released for publication at Aligarh Muslim University. The Urdu, Hindi and English versions of this rare manuscript is to be published by the AMU with financial support of the Iran Government.
Bahr-e-Zakhkhar, another book believed to contain a rare collection of Tazkira (a sort of biography mostly in the form of poetry) in Persian was also released. AMU's Maulana Azad Library was also gifted 3000 Persian manuscripts and CDs by the Iran Cultural House.
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