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Rahimov, Abdullo

Tajik philosopher Abdullo Rahimov was born into a farming family

in the village of Hait of Gharm on June 1, 1932. He joined the CPSU in

1952.

Rahimov graduated from the Kulab Pedagogical Institute in 1957.

From 1957 to 1959, he was the Director of Middle School #1. From

1959 to 1962, he did post-graduate studies and in 1963, he became a

Senior Scientific Worker in the Philosophy Division of the Academy of

Sciences of Tajikistan. From 1963 to 1972, he was the Prorector of the

Kulab Pedagogical Institute; in 1972 and 1973, he was Assistant Profes-

sor of the Department of Philosophy and Scientific Communism of the

Tajikistan Institute of Agriculture. In 1973, he became Assistant Profes-

sor and Head of the Department of Philosophy and Scientific Commu-

nism of the Ibn Sina Medical Institute where he remained until 1978.

He became a doctor of philosophy in 1979, and a professor in 1980.

Rahimov's research deals with problems arising from the transfor-

mation--physical and spiritual--in Tajik villages during the socialist era.

His contributions include Sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe preobrazovania v

tadzhikskoi derevne (Economical and Sociological Changes in Rural

Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 1968); and Problema cheloveka v filosofii (Man-

kind's Dilemma in Philosophy, Dushanbe, 1970).