Badiozzaman Forouzanfar or Badi'ozzamān Forūzānfar (also

Romanized Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and ...

as "Badiʿ al-Zamān Furūzānfar") (12 July 1904 in

Boshrooyeh Boshruyeh ( fa, بشرويه - "''Bosh''-Growing", also Romanized as Boshrūyeh) is a city in, and the capital of, Boshruyeh County, in western South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 13,778, in 3,638 families. Boshr ...

Ferdows County Ferdows County ( fa, شهرستان فردوس) is located in South Khorasan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Ferdows. At the 2006 census, the county's population (including those portions of the county later split off to form Boshru ...

– 6 May 1970 in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

) ( fa, بدیع‌الزمان فروزانفر, born ''Ziyaa' Boshrooye-i'' ) was a scholar of

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 ...

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

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and culture, and an expert on

Rumi Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī ( fa, جلال‌الدین محمد رومی), also known as Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (), Mevlânâ/Mawlānā ( fa, مولانا, lit= our master) and Mevlevî/Mawlawī ( fa, مولوی, lit= my ma ...

(Molana Jalaleddin Balkhi) and his works. He was a distinguished professor of literature at

Tehran University The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching pro ...

. He is one of the "

Five-Masters Five-Masters (or ''Panj Ostād'') refers to five influential masters of Persian literature, Badiozzaman Forouzanfar, Malekoshoara Bahar, Jalal Homaei, Abdolazim Gharib and Rashid Yasemi. These five masters wrote the classic book of '' Grammar o ...

(''Panj Ostād''), five influential scholars of

, the others being Malekoshoara Bahar, Jalal Homaei, Abdolazim Gharib and

Rashid Yasemi Gholamreza Rashid Yasemi ( fa, غلامرضا رشید یاسمی; born 1895 in Gahwareh, Kermanshah Province, Iran – died 1951 in Tehran) was an Iranian-Kurdish poet, translator, academic and literary figure. He finished his primary educatio ...

. The critical edition of Rumi's ''

Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi ''Divan-i Kebir'', also known as Divan i Shams, is a collection of poems written by the Persian poet and Sufi mystic Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, also known as Rumi. A compilation of lyric poems written in the Persian language, i ...

'' (in 10 volumes) by Forouzanfar is the best edition of the book available to date. The first critical edition of ''

Fihi ma fihi The ''Fihi Ma Fihi'' ( fa, فیه مافیه; from ar, فیه ما فیه), "It Is What It Is" or "In It What Is in It") is a Persian prose work of a famous 13th century writer, Rumi. The book has 72 short discourses. Description The title ...

'' was also done by B. Forouzanfar, which is now well known in the West thanks to the selective translation of A. J. Arberry. His ''Ahadith-i Mathnawi'' is a compilation of

hadith Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...

from Rumi's

Masnavi The ''Masnavi'', or ''Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi'' ( fa, مثنوی معنوی), also written ''Mathnawi'', or ''Mathnavi'', is an extensive poem written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi. The ''Masnavi'' is one of the most ...

.Furúzánfar, Badí'al-Zaman. Aḥadíth va qiṣaṣ-i-Mathnaví: talfiqí az dú kitáb ‘Aḥadíth-i- Mathnaví' va 'Má'khidh-i- qiṣaṣ va tamthílát-i- Mathnaví. Ed: Ḥusayn Dávúdí. 2nd edition. Amír Kabír, Teheran, 1381 (2002) (orig: 1334/1955). He was also a first cousin (maternal) of another famous Iranian scholar of literature, Professor Mohammad Parvin Gonabadi.

Notable students

* Mehrdad Avesta *

Parviz Natel Khanlari Parviz Natel Khanlari ( fa, پرویز ناتل خانلری; March 20, 1914 – August 23, 1990) was an Iranian literary scholar, linguist, author, researcher, politician, and professor at Tehran University. Biography Parviz Natel Khanlari g ...

Zabihollah Safa Zabihollah Safa ( fa, ذبیح‌اللّه صفا; May 7, 1911 in Shahmirzad, Iran – April 29, 1999 in Lübeck, Germany) was a scholar and professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at the University of Tehran. His main contribution to the field ...

Ehsan Yarshater Ehsan Yarshater ( fa, احسان يارشاطر, April 3, 1920 – September 1, 2018) was an Iranian historian and linguist who specialized in Iranology. He was the founder and director of The Center for Iranian Studies, and Hagop Kevorkian Profe ...

Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub (Luri/Persian: , also Romanized as ''Zarrinkoob'', ''Zarrinkub'', ) (March 17, 1923 – September 15, 1999) was a scholar and professor of Iranian literature, history of literature, Persian culture and history. He was bo ...

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Mohammad-Amin Riahi Mohammad-Amin Riahi ( fa, محمدامین ریاحی; 1 June 1923, Khoy – 15 May 2009, Tehran) was a prominent Iranian literary scholar of Persian literature, a historian, writer and statesman. Apart from being one of the authors of Dehkhoda D ...

Simin Daneshvar Simin Dāneshvar ( fa, سیمین دانشور)‎ (28 April 1921 – 8 March 2012) was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator. She was largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Her books dealt with the ...

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Jalal Matini Jalal Matini ( fa, جلال متینی) (born 1928) is a scholar of Persian literature, particularly renowned for his expertise on the epic Shahnameh by Ferdowsi, and contemporary Iranian studies. He is also known for producing the critical editio ...

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Iranian literary scholars Linguists from Iran University of Tehran faculty People from Ferdows County 1970 deaths 1904 births Members of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature

Forouzanfar Badiozzaman Forouzanfar or Badi'ozzamān Forūzānfar (also Romanized as "Badiʿ al-Zamān Furūzānfar") (12 July 1904 in Boshrooyeh in Ferdows County – 6 May 1970 in Tehran) ( fa, بدیع‌الزمان فروزانفر, born ''Ziyaa' B ...

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Notable students

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