On February 7^th, 2018, the ceremony of the 25^th World Award for Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran was held in Tehran under the auspices of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran H.E. Dr. Hassan Rouhani. Nine books by foreign authors reached the final stage of evaluation and received the Book of the Year Award. One of the recipients of the prestigious award is the monograph "The Formation of the Islamic Understanding of Kalāla in the Second Century AH (718-816 CE)" by the Bulgarian Professor PavelPavlovitch, Head of the Arabic and Semitic Studies Department at the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology of the Sofia University "St. KlimentOhridski". Professor Pavlovitch received the prestigious award personally from the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran H.E. Dr. Hassan Rouhani.

The ceremony was attended by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria toIran H.E. Mr. Christo Polendakov.