Azartash Azarnoush
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Azartash Azarnoush is a linguist and scholar of Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

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Born in 1937 in Qom
Qom
Qom is a city in Iran. It lies by road southwest of Tehran and is the capital of Qom Province. At the 2006 census, its population was 957,496, in 241,827 families. It is situated on the banks of the Qom River....

, he holds two Ph.D degrees from France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. He specializes in Arabic literature
Arabic literature
Arabic literature is the writing produced, both prose and poetry, by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is adab which is derived from a meaning of etiquette, and implies politeness, culture and enrichment....

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He is a faculty at Imam Sadeq University
Imam Sadeq University
Imam Sadeq University is a university in Tehran, Iran.Established in 1982, the goal of the university is to bridge the gap between the Islamic seminary and traditional academia....

 and Tarbiat Modarres University and has been director of the Arabic department of The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia in Tehran
Tehran
Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

since 1986 http://www.cgie.org.ir/en/Section_ArabLiterature.html, and has published over 200 articles in the field of Arabic literature, as well as a few dozen books.

Among his books and publications, one can mention:
  • "A guide to the influence of Persian language in Arabic language" (کتاب راهنمای نفوذ فارسی در فرهنگ و زبان تازی)
  • "A history of Arabic language and culture" (تاریخ زبان و فرهنگ عربی)
  • "A contemporary dictionary of Arabic to Persian" (فرهنگ معاصر عربی به فارسی), which won a Best book award in Iran in 1999.
  • Elements de religions iranienns chez les Arabes a lepopue preilamique, 1976.

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