P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Mukhtorov, Ahror

Tajik historian Ahror Mukhtorov was born in Uroteppa on

November 5, 1924. He received his early education in the traditional

schools. He joined the CPSU in 1952.

Between 1939 and 1941, Mukhtorov studied at the Dushanbe

Pedagogical Institute and from 1942 to 1947 he served in the Soviet

army.

Mukhtorov graduated from the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in

1951. In 1955, he became an instructor and a post-graduate student at

the same institute. In 1959, he became the Director of the Medieval

History Division of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences

of Tajikistan. He received his doctorate degree in history in 1971, and

became a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of

Tajikistan in 1978.

Mukhtorov's research deals with the history of the Tajiks during the

Middle Ages. In this context, he has edited and published many docu-

ments that shed light on aspects of the history of the region. His contri-

butions, in addition to the three-volume Ta'rikhi Khalqi Tojik (The

History of the Tajiks), include Materiali po istorii Ura-Tiube, Sbornik

aktov XVII-XIX vv. (Materials for the History of Uroteppa, Collection

marked 17

th

 to 19

th

 Centuries, Moscow, 1963); Ocherk istorii Ura-Ti-

ubinskogo vladenia v XIX v. (Essay on the History of Uroteppa in the

19

th

 Century, Dushanbe, 1964); Rez'ba po derevu v doline Zarafshana

(Wood Carving in the Zarafshan Valley, Moscow, 1966); Dil'shod i ee

mesto v istorii obshchestvennoi misli tadzhikskogo naroda v XIX-

nachale XX vv. (Dilshod and His Status in the Intellectual History of the

Tajiks at the End of the 19

th

 and Beginning of the 20

th

 Centuries,

Dushanbe, 1969); and Bobojon Ghafurov (Bobojon Ghafurov, Du-

shanbe, 1992).

Mukhtorov was decorated with three medals and the Honorary Order

of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.