ahmedabad more than 25 literary figure from across the country will arrive in the city to participate in a threeday seminar on cultural and literary activities in medieval gujarat starting on sunday the seminar is being organised by the hazrat pirmohammad shah library and research centre in the city famous worldwide as library for the worlds oldest islamic books the library books that are 500700 years old including the 300yearold mahabharata in persian president of the librarycumresearchcentre mohammad kakiwala said an attempt will be made in the seminar to trace the significant contributions made in the field of culture history and literature in the medieval gujarat littleknown facts like the first urdu poem was penned not by poets of lucknow or delhi but by vali gujarati and such other interesting aspects of contributions made by gujaratis in the field of culture and literature will be highlighted at the seminar kakiwala said over 45 learned people from gujarat will also present papers during the meet