University of Tehran Gives Sheikh Zakzaky Honorary Doctorate

Date: 15 October 2023 - 21:45

News ID: ۱۲۰۳۴۳

TEHRAN – The University of Tehran has presented an honorary doctorate degree to Nigeria’s Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.
University of Tehran dean Muhammad Moghimi praised Zakzaky as a perfect and shining example for promotion of peace.
On Sunday, a book titled Mahtab-e Zaria (Zaria’s Moonlight) written by Sheikh Zakzaky’s wife Zeenah Ibraheem was unveiled at the University of Tehran.
The unveiling ceremony took place on the sidelines of an event where an honorary doctorate degree was presented to Sheikh Zakzaky.
The book narrates the story of the Islamic movement in Nigeria and the activities of Sheikh Zakzaky’s wife from the beginning of the movement in the early 1980s until the Zaria massacre in 2015 and its consequences.
It has been translated into Persian by Ebrahim Mohseni Ahooie and has 12 chapters and 134 pages.