P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Muhammadkhojayev, Ahmadjon

Tajik scholar Ahmadjon Muhammadkhojayev was born in the

village of Rokharv in Badakhshan on February 10, 1941.

Muhammadkhojayev graduated from Tajikistan State University

with a degree in Persian language and philology in 1961. After a stint in

the army, he worked in the high schools of Kokhozabad. From 1965 to

1968, he was a post-graduate student in the Institute of History of the

Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. In 1991, he defended his thesis on

Jahonbinii Faridaddin Attor (Farid al-Din Attor's Worldview) and

became a candidate of science. In 1992, he defended his dissertation

entitled Ideologioi Naqshbandiya (The Naqshbandiya Ideology).

Muhammadkhojayev was elected a Corresponding Member of the

Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in 1997. At the present, he is the

Head of the Department of History of Philosophy.

Muhammadkhojayev's contributions include Jahonbinii Faridaddin

Attor (Farid al-Din Attor's Worldview), 1974; Nazariyai Ma'rifati

Tasawuf (Theory on Sufic Gnosis), 1991; Ideologiai Naqshbandiya (The

Naqshbandi Ideology), 1991; and Khoja Ahror--Hayot va Ta'limot

(Khoja Ahror--His Life and Teachings), 2000.