P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Shukurov, Muhammadjon

Tajik research scholar and literary critic Muhammadjon Sharifovich

Shukurov, also referred to as Shakuri, was born in Bukhara on October

30, 1926, into the family of Sharifjon Makhdum Sadri Ziyo. He re-

ceived his early education in the Soviet-Tajik schools of Bukhara and

Dushanbe. He joined the CPSU in 1957.

Shukurov entered the Department of Tajiki Language and Literature

of the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in 1941, and graduated in 1945.

From 1948 to 1951, he was a post-graduate student at the Dushanbe

Pedagogical Institute, working with Professor Kholiq Mirzozoda. His

thesis, entitled Ijzi va Khalloqiati U (Ijzi and His Creative Genius),

however, was rejected on the grounds that Ijzi was identified as a bour-

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