Azartash Azarnoush (, 18 February 1938 – 7 October 2021) was a linguist and scholar of Iran. Born in
Qom
Qom (; ) is a city in the Central District of Qom County, Qom province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. It is the seventh largest metropolis and also the seventh largest city in Iran. The city is ...
, he held two Ph.D. degrees from France. He specialized in
Arabic literature
Arabic literature ( / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is ''Adab (Islam), Adab'', which comes from a meaning of etiquett ...
. Azarnoush was part of
Imam Sadeq University and
Tarbiat Modarres University
Tarbiat Modares University (: ''Dāneshgāh-e Tarbiyat Modarres'', lit. "Professor Training University") is a graduate public university located in Tehran, Iran.
Faculties
Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) was established in 1982 and is a comp ...
faculty, and was the director of the Arabic department of The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia in
Tehran
Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...
since 1986,
and published over 200 articles in the field of Arabic literature, as well as a few dozen books.
Selected publications
*"A guide to the influence of Persian language in Arabic language" ()
*"A history of Arabic language and culture" ()
*"A contemporary dictionary of Arabic to Persian" (), which won a ''Best book award in Iran'' in 1999.
*''Elements de religions iraniens chez les Arabes à l'époque préislamique'', 1976.
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References
External links
Biography in Persian
1938 births
2021 deaths
Iranian Iranologists
Academic staff of Imam Sadiq University
Linguists from Iran
Iranian literary critics
20th-century Iranian historians
Arabists
People from Qom
Academic staff of Tarbiat Modares University
Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame recipients in Literature and Culture
Iran's Book of the Year Awards recipients
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