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Rahmonov, Abujabbor

Tajik literary scholar and critic Abujabbor Azizovich Rahmonov was

born on March 15, 1959, in the Khatlan kolkhoz of Kulab. He received

his early education in Tajiki schools of the region.

Rahmonov graduated, with distinction from Tajikistan State Univer-

sity with a degree in philology in 1983. For the next two years, he

worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Soviet Tajik Literature. From

1985 to 1987, he served the Soviet State in Afghanistan. In 1989, he be-

gan work as a trainee in the Department of Soviet Tajik Literature. He

successfully defended his thesis in 1995, and worked at the same de-

partment, first as a Lecturer, and later as an Assistant Professor.

From 1995 to 1999, he was the Director of the Instructions Division

of the Tajikistan State University. After a year of paid leave, he de-

fended his doctorate dissertation at the Institute of Languages and Lit-

eratures of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in 1999. Since No-

vember of that year, he has served as a Professor of Modern Persian-

Tajiki Literature. Since July 2000, he has also served in the Translation

Bureau at the Office of the President of the Republic.

Rahmonov's contributions include "Ma'rifati Zamon" ("Wisdom of

the Ages," 1995); "Pindorhoi Asotiri dar Adabiyoti Tojiki" ("Mythical

Concepts in Tajik Literature," 1999); and "Nazariyya va Sairi Ta'rikhii

Usturasozii Forsi-tojiki" ("Theory and the Historical Development of

Perso-Tajik Mythology," 1999).