Mohammad Moin (July 12, 1914, Rasht

Rasht

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, Iran

Iran

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 — July 4, 1971, Tehran

Tehran

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, Iran) was a prominent Iranian scholar of Persian literature

Persian literature

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 and Iranian Studies

Iranian Studies

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.

Mohammad Moin studied at the Higher Institue of Science

Tarbiat Moallem University

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 in Tehran and obtained his BA

Bachelor of Arts

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 in literature

Literature

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 and philosophy

Philosophy

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 in 1934. He subsequently went to Belgium

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 and graduated in applied psychology

Psychology

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, anthropology

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 and cognitive science

Cognitive science

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 under Elmer Knowles. On returning to Iran he carried out his doctoral research under Ebrahim Pourdavoud at the University of Tehran

University of Tehran

The University of Tehran , also known as Tehran University and UT, is Iran's oldest university. Located in Tehran, the university is among the most prestigious in the country, and is consistently selected as the first choice of many applicants in the annual nationwide entrance exam for top Iranian...

, culminating in a thesis with the title "Mazdayasna

Zoroastrianism

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 and its Influence on Persian Literature" for which he received a PhD

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 with honours in Persian literature

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...

 and linguistics

Linguistics

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. He is the first doctoral graduate in Persian literature from the University of Tehran.

He was later appointed full professor at University of Tehran, from which position he was subsequently promoted as Distinguished Professor to the Chair of Literary Criticism and Research in Literary Texts at the same university. He is best known for his famous Moin Dictionary as well as his contributions to The Dehkhoda Dictionary

Dehkhoda Dictionary

The Dehkhoda Dictionary is the largest comprehensive Persian dictionary ever published, comprising 15 volumes . The complete work is an ongoing effort that entails over forty-five years of efforts by Dehkhoda and a cadre of other experts.The series initially consisted of 3 million records until...

, a work he did in collaboration with Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda himself.

Moin was President of the literature commission of the International Congress of Iranian Studies and Director of the Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute.

Mohammad Moin died in 1971 in Tehran. He is buried in Astaneh Ashrafiyeh

Astaneh-e Ashrafiyyeh

Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh is a city in and the capital of Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 36,298, in 10,558 families....

, Gilan, Iran. His burial chamber was vandalized in 1981 by vigilantes, thought to be due to Moin's ties to the political elite of the Pahlavi Era.

Awards and honours

• Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Letters
• Tamhour from Academie des Inscriptions
• Highest medal for Art and Literature form French government
• Distinguished Professor of Tehran University

See also

• Persian literature
  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...
  
  
• Iranistics