P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Abdullozoda, Sherzod

Tajik historian Sherzod Abdullozoda, also referred to as Abdulloev,

was

 

born

 

in the

 

village of Niknom

 

of Panjakent on September 26, 1946.

He graduated from Middle School in 1964.

Abdullozoda graduated from the Tajikistan State University Faculty

of Oriental Studies with a degree in Arabic Language and Literature in

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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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1970. Between 1979 and 1983, he completed his post-graduate studies.

In 1983, he defended his dissertation entitled Oqibathoi Ijtimoii Inqilobi

Ilmio Tekhniki az Didgohi Ilohiyyoti Islomi (The Social Consequences

of Scientific Revolution from the Point of View of Islamic Theology). In

1992, he was appointed as the Director of the Department of Philosophy

and Religion of the same institute.

Abdullozoda's contributions include Islomi Muosir dar Arsai Siosat

va Ideologia (Contemporary Islam in the Arena of Politics and Ideol-

ogy, Dushanbe, 1990); Ma'orifparvari va Ozodfikri (Freethinking and

Educational Development, Dushanbe, 1994). The latter work deals with

the philosophical and religious thought of Tajik intellectual Ahmad

Donish. Abdullozoda's

 

other

 

contributions

 

include

 

Muqaddama

 

ba Islom-

shinosi (An Introduction to the Study of Islam, Dushanbe, 1998); and

Asoshoi Dinshinosi (The Bases of the Study of Religion, Dushanbe,

2001).

Abdullozoda has traveled to Iran and the republics of the former

Soviet Union.