Mohammad Taqi Danesh Pajouh or Mohammad Taghi Daneshpajouh ( fa, محمدتقی دانشپژوه; born 1911 in
Amol and died 1996) was a writer, musician, translator, orientalist and Iranian scholar, a member of the
Academy of Persian Language and Literature
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, professor at the
University of Tehran
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and the father codicology of Iran.
He entered the Faculty of Law at Tehran University and took his bachelor's degree in 1941. He served for decades as deputy librarian at
Tehran of Political Science before joining the Department of History of the Faculty of Theology at that school. In addition to editing and publishing the works of others, he authored a number of articles of his own.
He also traveled to obtain bibliographic and manuscript information and to order it from the University of Tehran to Baghdad, Najaf, Karbala and Kazemin in
Iraq
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, Medina and Mecca in
Saudi Arabia
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, Moscow, Leningrad in
Russia
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, Tbilisi, Dushanbe, Tashkent, Bukhara, Samarkand, and Baku in Central Asia,
Paris
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, Munich, Leiden, Utrecht, and Istanbul in
Europe
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and continued to travel to Cambridge, Boston, Princeton, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Chicago and New York in the
United States
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.
Danesh Pajouh became an honorary member of French-Asian Association and
Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, for has been honored for its extensive knowledge of Persian texts and for its philosophy, logic, literature, theology, librarianship, and cataloging of oriental manuscripts. He was a professor at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Tehran. Danesh Pajouh together with
Iraj Afshar,
Manouchehr Sotoudeh, Mostafa Mogharebi and
Abbas Zaryab Khoei, founded Farhang Iran Zamin Magazine.
[Iraj Afshar, Farhang Iran Zamin Magazine]
See also
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Dastur al-Muluk
References
External links
Iraj Afshar biography - danesh pajoh
M. T. Danesh Pajouh (mt.daneshpajouh.free.fr)
Biography, at aftabir.com
Professor Mohammad Taqi Danesh Pajouh, bibliographer and lover of philosophyMohammad Taghi Daneshpajouh Hall / Central Library of University of Tehran
1996 deaths
1911 births
Iranian translators
People from Amol
20th-century translators
20th-century Iranian historians
Iranian librarians
20th-century Iranian musicians
Iranian male writers
Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies of the University of Tehran alumni
Iran's Book of the Year Awards recipients
Codicologists
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