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 The Academy of Persian Language and Literature (APLL) ( fa, فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی, ''Farhangestân-e Zabân-o Adab-e Fârsi'') is the regulatory body for the Persian language, headquartered in Tehran, Iran. Formerly know ...

, professor at the

University of Tehran 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 ...

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 Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

, Medina and Mecca in

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

, Moscow, Leningrad in

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, Tbilisi, Dushanbe, Tashkent, Bukhara, Samarkand, and Baku in Central Asia,

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

, Munich, Leiden, Utrecht, and Istanbul in

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and continued to travel to Cambridge, Boston, Princeton, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Chicago and New York in the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...

. 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

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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 philosophy

Mohammad 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 {{Asia-translator-stub

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