Muhammadjon Shakuri (, ; February 1925, in
Bukhara
Bukhara ( ) is the List of cities in Uzbekistan, seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan by population, with 280,187 residents . It is the capital of Bukhara Region.
People have inhabited the region around Bukhara for at least five millennia, and t ...
– September 16, 2012, in
Dushanbe
Dushanbe is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being largely Tajiks, Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as St ...
), also known as Muhammad Sharifovich Shukurov, was a prominent
Tajik intellectual and one of the notable
literary figures of the Persian language of the 20th century.
From the late 1980s, during
glasnost
''Glasnost'' ( ; , ) is a concept relating to openness and transparency. It has several general and specific meanings, including a policy of maximum openness in the activities of state institutions and freedom of information and the inadmissi ...
, he cultivated an interest in the theory of modern Tajik culture, and he published copiously on the issues of the history and contemporary conditions of the Tajik language, literature, and culture during the independence period after 1991.
[Evelin Grassi and Habib Borjian, "ŠOKUROV, MOḤAMMADJĀN" http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/shokurov-mohammadjan]
Among his main works is a Tajiki-Persian dictionary. He also had a significant role in preserving Tajik identity.
Awards and honors
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Iran
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's Eternal Figure Award (2005)
*Permanent member of
Academy of Persian Language and Literature
The Academy of Persian Language and Literature (APLL) (, ''Farhangestân-e Zabân-o Adab-e Fârsi'') is the regulatory body for the Persian language, headquartered in Tehran, Iran. Formerly known as the Academy of Iran (, ''Farhangestân-e Iran'' ...
(1996)
*Permanent member of Tajik Academy of Sciences
See also
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Iranistics
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Layeq Shir-Ali
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Golrokhsar Safi Eva
References
*Iraj Bashiri
''Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century'' International Borbad Foundation, Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 2003.
External links
Tajikistan's national scholar: Mohammad Shakouri
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Ethnic Tajik people
Iranologists
Tajikistani writers
1925 births
2012 deaths
Uzbek Tajik people
Members of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature
Members of the Tajik Academy of Sciences