Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob
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Abdolhossein Zarinkoob (in Persian: عبدالحسين زرينکوب, also spelled Zarrinkoub) was a prominent scholar of Iranian literature, history of literature, Persian culture and history.
He was born on March 19, 1923 in Borujerd, Iran, received his PhD from Tehran University in 1955 under the supervision of Badiozzaman Forouzanfar, and has held faculty positions at prestigious universities such as Oxford University, Sorbonne, and Princeton University, among many others.
Due to his pioneering works on Iranian literature, literary criticism and comparative literature, he is considered as the father of modern Persian literature.
He died September 15, 1999 in Tehran.
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[edit] Research works
Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub's solid research works made him a world class Iranologist and undisputable master of Persian literature. He was known for his extreme precision and solid works. He was the author of dozens of books in Persian, French, and English, and has published hundreds of articles.
Some of his more famous works in English are:
- The Arab Conquest of Iran and its aftermath: in Cambridge History of Iran, Vol 4, London, 1975.
- Persian Sufism in its historical background, Iranian studies III, 1970
- Nizami, a lifelong quest for a utopia, 1977, Rome.
[edit] Literary criticism and comparative literature
Zarrinkoob boosted comparative literature and Persian literary criticism. His book entitled "Naghde Adabi" (Literary criticism) is a classic book on Persian literary criticism.
[edit] Rumi and Erfan
Prof. Dr. Zarrinkoub is also known for his profound research on revered Iranian poet Molana Jalaleddin Balkhi (Rumi) and his works. Zarrinkoub's "Serr e Ney" and "bahr dar Koozeh" are critical and comparative analysis of Rumi's Masnavi. "Pelleh Pelleh ta Molaghate Khoda" is also a work he carried out on the same line.
Zarrinkoub's research works on Hafiz and Persian mysticism resulted in several books: "Az koocheie Rendan" and "Arzeshe Mirase Soofieh" are a few examples.
[edit] History of Persia
Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub's classic book entitled "Two Centuries of Silence" [1] is one the most reliable sources on the history of Persia after Islam. Zarrinkoub also published seminal articles and a few books on Islamic history.
[edit] See also
Other notable Iranologists:
[edit] References
- ^ ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn Zarrīnʹkūb (1379 (2000)). Dū qarn-i sukūt : sarguz̲asht-i ḥavādis̲ va awz̤āʻ-i tārīkhī dar dū qarn-i avval-i Islām (Two Centuries of Silence). Tihrān: Sukhan. OCLC 46632917, ISBN 964-5983-33-6.
