Muhammadjon Shakuri ( tg, Муҳаммадҷон Шакурӣ, fa, محمدجان شکوری; February 1925, in
Bukhara
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People have inhabited the region around Bukhara ...
– September 16, 2012, in
Dushanbe
Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (r ...
), also known as Muhammad Sharifovich Shukurov, was a prominent
Tajik
Tajik, Tadjik, Tadzhik or Tajikistani may refer to:
* Someone or something related to Tajikistan
* Tajiks, an ethnic group in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan
* Tajik language, the official language of Tajikistan
* Tajik (surname)
* Tajik cu ...
intellectual and one of the notable
literary figures of the Persian language of the 20th century.
From the late 1980s, during
glasnost
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, he cultivated an interest in the theory of modern Tajik culture, and he published copiously on the issues of the history and contemporary conditions of Tajik language, literature, and culture during the independence period after 1991.
[Evelin Grassi and ]Habib Borjian Habib Borjian is a linguist who specializes in a wide variety of matters, including historical linguistics, language documentation, philology and Iranian languages and literature. He was educated at Columbia University, the University of Tehran and ...
, "ŠOKUROV, MOḤAMMADJĀN" http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/shokurov-mohammadjan
Among his main works is a Tajiki-Persian dictionary. He also had a significant role in preserving Tajik identity.
Awards and honors
*
Iran
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's Eternal Figure Award (2005)
*Permanent member of
Academy of Persian Language and Literature
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(1996)
*Permanent member of Tajik Academy of Sciences
See also
*
Iranistics
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*
Layeq Shir-Ali
Layeq Sherali (1941–2000, in Tajiki/Persian: Лоиқ Шералӣ/لائق شیرعلی, sometimes also Romanised as Laeq or Laiq or Loiq) was a Tajik poet, Iranologist and one of the most celebrated Persian literary figures of Tajikistan a ...
*
Golrokhsar Safi Eva
References
*Iraj Bashiri
''Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century'' International Borbad Foundation, Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 2003.
External links
Tajikistan's national scholar: Mohammad Shakouri
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Ethnic Tajik people
Iranologists
Tajikistani writers
1925 births
2012 deaths
Members of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature
Members of the Tajik Academy of Sciences