P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Sayf Rahim

See Rahimov, Sayf.

Sayfiev, Najmi

Tajik literary critic Najmi Sayfiev was born in the village of

Chuqurak, Uzbekistan, on July 12, 1932.

Saiyfiev graduated from the Institute of History and Philology of the

Tajikistan State University in 1957. In 1957 and 1958, he was a Senior

Lecturer at the Rudaki Language and Literature Institute. In 1958 and

1959 and from 1962 to 1967, he was a post-graduate student and Senior

Scientific Worker in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of

Sciences of Tajikistan. Between 1967 to 1970, he was a senior instruc-

tor at the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute. From 1971 to 1984, he was

an Assistant Professor there. He received his doctorate degree in Philol-

ogy in 1983, and became a full professor in 1984. In the same year, he

also became the Director of the Department of Literature at the

Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute.

Sayfiev research deals with specific aspects of the works of Nakhli

Bukhoroi and Jalol Tabib. His contributions include, "Nakhli Bukhoroi"

("Nakhli of Bukhara," 1969); "Jaloli Tabib va Matni Ilmiu Intiqodii

Dostoni U" ("Jalol Tabib and the Scientific and Critical Text of His

Story," 1975); and "Dostonsaroii Fors-Tojik dar Asri XIV" ("Perso-

Tajik Stories in the 14

th

 Century," 1983).