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Introduction

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad is located in a city where a great personality, a tireless fighter, and a divine man has been martyred. His shrine is the place for the tawaf of divine angles and is filled with many enthusiastic hearts who come to visit him. Mashhad al-Reza is the capital of Korasan Razavi province deemed to be Iran’s cultural treasure, a center of knowledge and a holy gift. In order to fulfill its social mission, Ferdowsi University tries to enhance the sweet taste of the spiritual-political pilgrimage to this shrine for all pilgrims, neighbors and servants of Imam Reza (greetings be upon him)

After the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, a new reading of pilgrimage based upon pure Islam was proposed in the country and the Islamic world, which can lay a foundation for the New Islamic Civilization. This new approach to pilgrimage requires research in social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions. Therefore, the Center for Tourism and Pilgrimage Studies of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad was established in accordance with the regulation for the establishment and operation of research units in universities and research institutes approved by Higher Education Development Council on 25/09/2011, based on the communique no. 3.252785 dated 2/26/2012 issued by the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology (SRT hereinafter) as a “demand-driven” research Institute to meet the research needs of executive organizations, public and non-governmental entities and institutions within the field of pilgrimage and tourism, and its establishment act was formally served to Ferdowsi University of Mashhad by the Ministry of SRT via letter no. 193611/22/2 dated 11/14/2017. This research center operates on a collaborative basis through signing agreements or joint contracts between Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and Iranian applicant organizations and is comprised of three research groups as follows:

  • Analysis of data on pilgrimage and tourism
  • Policy making and Regulation of pilgrimage and tourism
  • Pilgrimage and tourism technologies

 

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  • The first meeting to review the requirements of the National Pilgrimage Document: Strategic aspects of drafting the National Pilgrimage Document

    A joint meeting between the center’s officials and the vice-president of Khorasan Razavi Provincial Government for pilgrimage and coordinating the affairs of pilgrims

  • The second specialized meeting to review the requirements and political dimensions of drafting the National Pilgrimage Document

    A joint meeting among the officials of the Center, deputy of Khorasan Razavi’s Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, and managers of the Khorasan Razavi’s Office of General Culture Council

  • The third specialized meeting about the system of research topics on pilgrimage

    A joint meeting among the officials of the Center, deputy of Khorasan Razavi’s Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, and managers of the Khorasan Razavi’s Office of General Culture Council

  • The fourth specialized meeting to review the interplay between urban design and pilgrimage-related identity of Mashhad city

    A joint meeting among the Center’s officials, the deputy governor of Kalat City, and some managers and entrepreneurs of the city

 

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