The department also submitted a request to launch an M.A program in Resistance Literature in 2010 and managed to admit students in the September of the same year. Considering the scientific potentials and activities of the Department of Persian Language and Literature of the University of Isfahan, the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology agreed to establish a Center of Excellence on Theosophical and Mystic texts in this department in August 2006. This center performs activities in editing, describing, histories, analyzing comparative studies and compiling. The journals of Literary Arts, Textual Criticism of Persian Literature and Journal of Persian Language and Literature (Gawhar-i Guya), which is a "scientific-research" journal, are currently being published by the center.