Badiozzaman Forouzanfar
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Badi'ozzamān Foruzānfar was a scholar of Persian literature
, Iranian
linguistics
and culture, and an expert on Molana Jalaleddin Balkhi (Rumi) and his works. He was a distinguished professor of literature at Tehran University.
Critical edition of Diwan e Shams (in 10 volumes) by Forouzanfar is the best edition of the book available to date. The same is true for the critical edition of Mathnawi by B. Forouzanfar and Jalal Homaei. The first critical edition of Fihi ma fihi
has been also done by B. Forouzanfar, which is now well known in the West thanks to the selective translation of A. J. Arberry
.
He was also a first cousin (maternal) of another famous Iranian scholar of literature, Prof. Mohammad Parvin Gonabadi.
Persian literature
Persian literature spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources have been within historical Persia including present-day Iran as well as regions of Central Asia where the Persian language has historically been the national language...
, Iranian
Iranian languages
The Iranian languages form a subfamily of the Indo-Iranian languages which in turn is a subgroup of Indo-European language family. They have been and are spoken by Iranian peoples....
linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
and culture, and an expert on Molana Jalaleddin Balkhi (Rumi) and his works. He was a distinguished professor of literature at Tehran University.
Critical edition of Diwan e Shams (in 10 volumes) by Forouzanfar is the best edition of the book available to date. The same is true for the critical edition of Mathnawi by B. Forouzanfar and Jalal Homaei. The first critical edition of Fihi ma fihi
Fihi Ma Fihi
The Fihi ma fihi , is a Persian prose work of the 13th century Sufi writer Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī. The book consists of 72 short discourses.- The title and origin of the book :...
has been also done by B. Forouzanfar, which is now well known in the West thanks to the selective translation of A. J. Arberry
Arthur John Arberry
Arthur John Arberry was a respected British orientalist. A most prolific scholar of Arabic, Persian, and Islamic studies, he was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge...
.
He was also a first cousin (maternal) of another famous Iranian scholar of literature, Prof. Mohammad Parvin Gonabadi.
His notable students
- Parviz Natel Khanlari
- Zabihollah SafaZabihollah SafaZabihollahhh Safa was a scholar and professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at the University of Tehran....
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- Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub
- Amir Hossein AryanpourAmir Hossein AryanpourAmir-Hossein Aryanpour was an Iranian dictionarist, writer, translator, philosopher, sociologist, and literary figure....
- Mohammad-Amin RiahiMohammad-Amin RiahiMohammad-Amin Riahi was a prominent Iranian literary scholar of Persian literature, a historian, writer and statemens. Apart from being one of the authors of Dehkhoda Dictionary and Encyclopædia Iranica, he was the author and editor of several well-known scholarly books...
- Simin DaneshvarSimin DaneshvarSimin Dāneshvar is an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator of literary works from English, German, Italian and Russian into Persian. Daneshvar has a number of firsts to her credit. In 1948, her collection of Persian short stories was the first by an Iranian woman to be...
- Mohammad-Reza Shafiei-Kadkani
- Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nodooshan
- Ja'far Shahidi
- Seyfeddin Najmabadi
- Jalal MatiniJalal MatiniJalal Matini is a scholar of Persian literature, particularly the epic Shahnameh by Ferdowsi, and Iranian studies. He is also known for producing the critical edition of the Kush Nama....
- Mahmoud Neshat
- William ChittickWilliam ChittickWilliam C. Chittick is a leading translator and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts. He is best known for his groundbreaking work on Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and has written extensively on the school of Ibn 'Arabi, Islamic philosophy, Shi'ism, and Islamic...
See also
- Persian literaturePersian literaturePersian literature spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources have been within historical Persia including present-day Iran as well as regions of Central Asia where the Persian language has historically been the national language...
- Molana (Rumi)
- Five-MastersFive-MastersFive-Masters refers to five very influential masters of Persian literature, Badiozzaman Forouzanfar, Malekoshoara Bahar, Jalal Homaei, Abdolazim Gharib and Rashid Yasemi....