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Nazriev, Jurabek

Tajik artist Jurabek Nazriev was born in the village of Navruhon in

the district of Khavaling, Khatlan, on June 23, 1946. He received his

early education in the village of his birth.

Nazriev graduated from the Institute of History and Philology of the

Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in 1968. In the same year he became a

post-graduate candidate at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the

Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. In 1969 and 1970, he served in the

Soviet Army. In 1974, he defended his thesis entitled Maktabi Shirozi

va Matni Ilmi-Intiqodii Masnavii "Laili va Majnun"-i U (Shirazi's

School and the Scientific-Critical Text of His "Layli and Majnun"). This

work was published in Dushanbe in 1983.

In 1975 and 1976, Nazriev worked in Afghanistan as a translator.

Upon his return, he was employed as a Senior Scientific Worker at the

Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of

Sciences of Tajikistan. Between 1981 and 1991, he served in various

positions there, including the Director of the Institute of Written

Heritage. From 1991 to the present he has been the Director of the

Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage. In 1996, he defended

his dissertation entitled Rivoyoti 'Biblio' vo 'Qur'an' Roji' ba Sulaimon

va Tahavvuli on dar Adabiyoti Forsu-Tojik (Bible Stories and Stories in

the Qur'an About Solomon and their Development in the Literature of

the Fars-Tajik Peoples). This work was published in Dushanbe in 1996.

Nazriev's other contributions include Noma va Noma Nigori dar

Shohnoma (Letters and Letter Writing in the Shahname, Tehran, 2000);

Layli va Majnuni Maktabii Shirozi va Matni Ilmi-Intiqodii On (Maktani

Shirazi's Layli and Majnun and Its Scientific-Critical Text); Qissai

Sulaimon va Malikai Sabo dar Nazmi Forsi-Tojiki (The Story of

Solomon and Sheba In Perso-Tajik Poetry).

Nazriev has traveled to Afghanistan, India, Iran, Pakistan, Germany,

Greece, Turkey, United States, and the Czech Republic.

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