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History Genre in the Prose Works of Soviet Tajik Literature During the

1960s and 1970s). In 1989, he defended his dissertation, entitled

Ta'rikhi Tanqid va Adabiyot Shinosi: Asoshoi Nazari u Astitikii Adabi-

yoti Shavravii Tojik dar Marhalai Yakum, Solhoi 1920-1950 (The His-

tory of Criticism and Literary Criticism: Theoretical and Aesthetical

Bases of Soviet Tajik Literature During the First Phase--1920-1950).

In 1984, Rajabov became the Director of the Rudaki Language and

Literature Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, a position

that he currently holds. In 2000, Rajabov was first appointed an affiliate

member of the Academy; and later, Acting Academic Secretary of the

Sociology Division of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.

Rajabov's contributions include Tadqiqi Ta'rikh--Tadqiqi Kharakter

(Research in History--Research in Character, 1990); Nasri Tojikii

Zamoni Jang: Tahavvoli Poetica (The Tajik Prose of the War Years:

Transformation of Poetics, 1990); Islom: Jadidia va Inqilob (Islam: The

Jadids and the Revolution, 1997).

Rajabov received the Sadriddin Aini State Prize for Literature in

1999.

Rajabov, Muso

Tajik philosopher Muso Rajabov was born into a family of retailers

in the village of Darozai Kaloni Bukhara on March 20, 1918. He joined

the CPSU in 1941.

Rajabov graduated from the Bukharan State Pedagogical Institute in

1939. From 1939 to 1946 he served at the war front. Between 1946 and

1953, he worked at various organizations in the Communist Party. From

1948 to 1955, he was a member of, and a reader for, the Central Com-

mittee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan. From 1953 to 1955, he

was the Minister of Education of the Republic. From 1955 to 1960, he

became the Director of Marxism-Leninism of the Dushanbe State Peda-

gogical Institute. In 1960, he was Prorector dealing with scientific af-

fairs of the same institute. He was the Assistant Director of the Tajik

Division of the Soviet Friendship between India and the Soviet Union.

He was a member of the Editorial Board of Komunisti Tojikiston (Taji-

kistan Communist). He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1971,

and became a professor in 1972.

Rajabov's contributions include Mirovozzrenie Ubaida Zakoni

(Ubaid Zokoni's Worldview, Stalinabad, 1958); Abdurrakhman Dzhami

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