Iran’s Int’l Quran Competition: Panel of Judges
According to Hojat-ol-Islam Seyed Mostafa Hosseini, secretary of the competition, Master Abdol Rasoul Abayi will chair the panel.
He said Mohammad Hossein Saeedian, Hashem Roghani, Hamid Reza Derayati, Shahriar Parhizkar, Mohammad Reza Shahidipour, and Mohammad Reza Sotudenia are other Iranian members of the panel.
He added that Mohammad Mehdi Bahrololum, Behruz Yarigol and Mutaz Aghayi will act as guide to the participants in the recitation and memorization categories.
As for the foreign members of the panel of judges, he said that they will be from Jordan, Algeria, Iraq, Pakistan, Indonesia, Syria, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Yemen.
The competition, whose motto is "One Book, One Ummah”, will kick off in Tehran on Wednesday, May 11, and run until Tuesday, May 17.
75 countries from the five continents of the world will send 130 Quran memorizers and reciters to the contest.
The international Quranic event convenes Quran reciters and memorizers from around the Muslim world every year.
