P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Mulloahmadov, Mirzo

Tajik literary scholar Mirzo Mulloahmadov was born in the village

of Darbar in the Aini district in 1948. He graduated from Tajikistan

State University with distinction in 1969. From the same year until the

present, he contributes as part of the staff of the Academy of Sciences

of Tajikistan.

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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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From 1978 to 1980, Mulloahmadov worked in Iran as a translator. In

1983, he joined the staff of Tajikistan State University as a teacher of

language and literature, as well as history and oriental studies. In 1994,

he worked in Iran at the University of Isfahan. In the same year, he be-

came a member of the Union of Tajik Writers. He is currently the Head

of the Iran-Tajikistan Friendship Association.

Mulloahmadov's work is dedicated to research in the history of Iran

and Tajikistan from ancient times to the present. He has prepared and

published many of the major works from Persian literature including the

Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the Qabusnoma of Kaikavus, and the

Diary of Iskandarbek. Mulloahmadov is one of the editors of "Anis." In

2000, he became a member of the prestigious Iranian Encyclopedia of

Anthropology. He was also one of the editors of the Literary Persian

Encyclopedia published in Tehran in 2001.