Five-Masters (or ''Panj Ostād'') refers to five influential masters of

Persian literature Persian literature ( fa, ادبیات فارسی, Adabiyâte fârsi, ) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources h ...

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' ...

, Malekoshoara Bahar,

Jalal Homaei Jalal (Arabic: جلال) is a masculine given or family name. The name or word Jalal means majesty and is used to honor and venerate. When the Arabic language spread across non-Arabic regions, Jalal has also become a name for some Arabic-speaking ...

Abdolazim Gharib ʻAbd al-ʻAẓīm (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد العظيم) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-ʻAẓīm'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric nam ...

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Rashid Yasemi Gholamreza Rashid Yasemi ( fa, غلامرضا رشید یاسمی; born 1895 in Gahwareh, Kermanshah Province, Iran – died 1951 in Tehran) was an Iranian-Kurdish poet, translator, academic and literary figure. He finished his primary education ...

. These five masters wrote the classic book of '' Grammar of Persian Language'' which is now known as ''Dastoore Zabane Panj Ostad''. Five-Masters are among the most important figures in the history of

Persian language Persian (), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision of th ...

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linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingu ...

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