Mohammad-Amin Riahi ( fa, محمدامین ریاحی; 1 June 1923,

Khoy Khoy (Persian and az, خوی; ; ; also Romanized as Khoi), is a city and capital of Khoy County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2012 census, its population was 200,985. Khoy is located north of the province's capital and largest ci ...

– 15 May 2009,

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) was a prominent Iranian literary scholar of Persian literature, a historian, writer and statesman. Apart from being one of the authors of

Dehkhoda Dictionary The ''Dehkhoda Dictionary'' ( fa, لغت‌نامهٔ دهخدا) is the largest comprehensive Persian encyclopedic dictionary ever published, comprising 200 volumes. It is published by the Tehran University Press (UTP) under the supervision of ...

and

Encyclopædia Iranica ''Encyclopædia Iranica'' is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times. Scope The ''Encyc ...

, he was the author and editor of several well-known scholarly books. Mohammad-Amin Riahi received his PHD on Persian literature from Tehran University under the supervision of

Badiozzaman Forouzanfar Badiozzaman Forouzanfar or Badi'ozzamān Forūzānfar (also Romanized as "Badiʿ al-Zamān Furūzānfar") (12 July 1904 in Boshrooyeh in Ferdows County – 6 May 1970 in Tehran) ( fa, بدیع‌الزمان فروزانفر, born ''Ziyaa' ...

. Riahi is best known for his scholarly works on

Shahnameh The ''Shahnameh'' or ''Shahnama'' ( fa, شاهنامه, Šāhnāme, lit=The Book of Kings, ) is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 5 ...

and

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, Hafiz, and the ancient iranian languages (especially Azari Language). He has produced critical editions of some of the major classical Persian texts such as ''Mersad-al-ebad'' and ''Nozhat-al-majalis''. During a course of 60 years he published numerous scholarly articles, a selection of which are gathered in a volume titled ''Forty essays on language, literature and history of Iran''. Among numerous cultural positions he held during his career, Riahi was a professor of

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, the founding member and later president of the Shahnameh Foundation (1971–1979), vice-chairman of the Iranian Academy of Literature and Arts, and Iranian Minister of Education (1979).

Selected bibliography

''Critical Editions of old Persian books:'' * ''Jahan-Nameh'', Mohammad ibn Najib Bakran (1963) * ''Meftah-al-Moamelat'', Mohammad ibn Ayub Tabari (1970) * ''Mersad-al-ebad'',

Najmeddin Razi Abū Bakr 'Abdollāh b. Moḥammad b. Šahāvar b. Anūšervān al-Rāzī ( fa, نجم‌الدین رازی) commonly known by the ''laqab'', or sobriquet, of Najm al-Dīn Dāya, meaning "wetnurse" (573 AH/1177 – 654 AH/1256) was a 13th-cent ...

(1973) * ''Alamaraye Naderi'', Mohammad-Kazem Marvi (1983) * ''Nozhat-al-majalis'', Jamal Khalil Sharvani (1996) ''Literary and Historical research books:'' * Kisai Marvazi, his life and poetry (1988) * Poetry and thoughts of Hafiz (1988) * Persian language and literature in Ottoman territory (1990) * A History of Khoy (1993) * Early sources on Ferdowsi and Shahnameh (1993) * Ferdowsi, his life, thoughts and poetry (1996) * Forty essays on language, literature and history of Iran (2000)

References

External links

''Some of Encyclopedic Articles:'' * NOZHAT-AL-MAJĀLES in Encyclopædia Iranic

* DĀYA, NAJM-AL-DĪN in Encyclopædia Iranic

{{DEFAULTSORT:Riahi, Mohammad-Amin Iranologists 21st-century Iranian historians Members of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature Education ministers of Iran Iranian literary scholars Iranian literary critics People from Khoy University of Tehran alumni University of Tehran faculty 1923 births 2009 deaths Iranian expatriate academics Shahnameh Researchers Faculty of Letters and Humanities of the University of Tehran alumni 20th-century Iranian politicians