Hawzah News Agency (Qom, Iran) – Today at the news conference of the 19th convention of seminaries' book of the year, which was held at the seminars hall of the management center of Qom Islamic seminary, Hujjat al-Islam Sayyed Hussain Mir-Moezzi pointed out that the research deputy has planned new programs for the this year's convention and said, "One of the several developmental initiatives in the area of research that have been planned is trying to develop and strengthen a research-based education system."

The research deputy of the seminary added, "Identifying and ranking the seminary researchers is one of the other programs whose regulations have been drafted and approved and we are in the process of preparing its arrangements so it will be implemented in the near future."

In another part of his remarks, Hujjat al-Islam Mir-Moezzi stressed that seminaries' book of the year convention is one of the important programs of the seminary's research deputy and stated, "This year for the first time, in addition to books and theses, we have entered scholarly and research articles to the convention which have been well received by the seminary clerics."

The vice president of the scientific council of the 19th convention of seminaries' book of the year further said, "This year, a total of 965 books and theses have been sent to the secretariat of the seminaries' book of the year convention. Also many scholarly and research articles have been received for the first convention of articles of seminary, from which 133 articles have been selected for the convention."