P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Abdulloev

See Abdullozoda, Sherzod.

Abdulloev, Ahmad

Tajik literary critic Ahmad Abdulloev, also referred to as Ahmad

Abdullo, was born into a scholarly family in the village of Bibishirin in

the Boisun district of Surkhan Dariya province, on March 15, 1936.

Abdulloev graduated from the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in

1957 and started work at the Rudaki Institute of Language and Lit-

erature of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in 1962.

Abdulloev's research, which deals with Perso-Tajik literature, in-

cludes analyses and appreciation of the works of medieval Tajik writers.

In this context, he has contributed the following: Adib Sobiri Tirmidhi

(Adib Sobir of Termez, 1969), Zahir Foryobi (Zahir of Fariab, 1974),

and Adabiyoti Forsu Tojik dar Nimai Avvali Asri Yozdah ( Persian and

Tajik Literatures of the First Half of the 11

th

 Century, 1979). He

received his doctorate degree in philology in 1984.

As part of his effort to understand the language, culture, and lit-

erature of pre-Mongol Central Asia, Abdulloev researched the works of

Unsuri, Farrukhi, and Manuchihri. In the works of the latter, he looked

for artistic innovations.

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Iraj Bashiri

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Other contributions of Abdulloev include Romontizmi Ustuvor va

Mailhoi Reolisti (Solid Romanticism and Realist Tendencies, 1979),

Sino va Raviyahoi Nazmi Zamoni U (Avicenna and the Poetic Trends of

His Time, 1980), and Oghozi Shi'ri Tojik (The Dawn of Tajik Poetry,

1983).

Abdulloev joined the Union of Writers of Tajikistan in1984.