Parviz Natel Khanlari ( fa, پرویز ناتل خانلری; March 20, 1914 – August 23, 1990) was an Iranian literary scholar,

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, and professor at

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Biography

Parviz Natel Khanlari graduated from

in 1943 with a

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degree in

Persian literature Persian literature ( fa, ادبیات فارسی, Adabiyâte fârsi, ) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources h ...

, and began his academic career in the faculty of arts and letters. He also studied

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for two years. From then on, Khanlari founded a new course named history of Persian language in

. Apart from his academic career which continued until the 1979 revolution, Khanlari held numerous administrative positions in the Iran in the 1960s through the late 1970s. Parviz Natel Khanlari was founder and editor of ''Sokhan magazine'', a leading literary journal with wide circulation among Iraninan intellectuals and literary scholars from the early 1940s to 1978.

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* Javād Es'hāghiān, ''Doctor Khanlari: A wave that did not rest'' (''Doctor Khānlari: Mouji ke nayāsood''), in Persian, ''Āti-Bān'', 2008

Note: The subtitle of this article is a paraphrase of a couplet from a long Persian poem by

Mohammad Iqbal Sir Muhammad Iqbal ( ur, ; 9 November 187721 April 1938), was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, Quote: "In Persian, ... he published six volumes of mainly long poems between 1915 and 1936, ... more or less complete works on philoso ...

(better known in Iran as ''Eqbāl-e Lāhourí''). {{DEFAULTSORT:Khanlari, Parviz Natel Persian-language writers Linguists from Iran Iranian literary scholars 1914 births 1990 deaths Iranian grammarians Linguists of Persian Grammarians of Persian University of Tehran faculty Rastakhiz Party politicians People's Party (Iran) politicians Iranian emigrants to France University of Paris alumni University of Tehran alumni 20th-century Iranian writers 20th-century linguists Faculty of Letters and Humanities of the University of Tehran alumni Iranian magazine founders

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