Azartash Azarnoush ( fa, آذرتاش آذرنوش, 18 February 1938 – 7 October 2021) was a linguist and scholar of Iran. Born in

Qom Qom (also spelled as "Ghom", "Ghum", or "Qum") ( fa, قم ) is the seventh largest metropolis and also the seventh largest city in Iran. Qom is the capital of Qom Province. It is located to the south of Tehran. At the 2016 census, its popul ...

, he held two Ph.D. degrees from France. He specialized in

Arabic literature Arabic literature ( ar, الأدب العربي / 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'', which is derived from ...

. Azarnoush was part of

Imam Sadeq University The Imam Sadiq University is an Islamic private university in Tehran, Iran. Established in 1982, the goal of the university is to bridge the gap between Islamic researches and modern studies, especially humanities. Imam Sadiq was established ...

and

Tarbiat Modarres University Tarbiat Modares University ( fa, دانشگاه تربیت مدرس: ''Dāneshgāh-e Tarbiyat Modares'', lit. "Professor Training University") is an exclusively graduate university with its main campus in Tehran, Iran. It was founded in 1982 a ...

faculty, and was the director of the Arabic department of The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the Capital city, capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is th ...

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" (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 iraniens chez les Arabes à l'époque préislamique'', 1976.

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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 {{Iran-linguist-stub