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Badi'ozzaman Foruzanfar (c.1899 Boshrooyeh
Boshrooyeh

Boshruyeh is a small city in the west of South Khorasan Province in Iran and is the center of Boshruyeh County. It is named for bosh, a native herb common to this region....
 in Ferdows County
Ferdows County

Ferdows County is a county in the northwest of South Khorasan Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Ferdows. The population of this county is about 40,000....
- 1970 Tehran
Tehran

Tehran is the capital and largest city of Iran, and the administrative center of Tehran Province. Tehran is a sprawling city at the foot of the Alborz mountain range with an immense network of highways unparalleled in Western Asia....
 (born Ziyaa' Boshrooye-i ??? ?????? ?? ) was a scholar of Persian literature
Persian literature

Persian literature spans two and a half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources has been within historical greater Iran including present-day Iran as well as reigions of Central Asia where the Persian language has been the national language through history....
, Iranian
Iranian languages

The Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages and its subfamily, Indo-Iranian languages. These languages are mainly spoken by the Iranian Peoples....
 linguistics
Linguistics

Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
 and culture, and an expert on Molana Jalaleddin Balkhi (Rumi) and his works. He was a distinguished professor of literature at Tehran University.

Critical edition of Diwan e Shams (in 10 volumes) by Forouzanfar is the best edition of the book available to date.






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Badi'ozzaman Foruzanfar (c.1899 Boshrooyeh
Boshrooyeh

Boshruyeh is a small city in the west of South Khorasan Province in Iran and is the center of Boshruyeh County. It is named for bosh, a native herb common to this region....
 in Ferdows County
Ferdows County

Ferdows County is a county in the northwest of South Khorasan Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Ferdows. The population of this county is about 40,000....
- 1970 Tehran
Tehran

Tehran is the capital and largest city of Iran, and the administrative center of Tehran Province. Tehran is a sprawling city at the foot of the Alborz mountain range with an immense network of highways unparalleled in Western Asia....
 (born Ziyaa' Boshrooye-i ??? ?????? ?? ) was a scholar of Persian literature
Persian literature

Persian literature spans two and a half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources has been within historical greater Iran including present-day Iran as well as reigions of Central Asia where the Persian language has been the national language through history....
, Iranian
Iranian languages

The Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages and its subfamily, Indo-Iranian languages. These languages are mainly spoken by the Iranian Peoples....
 linguistics
Linguistics

Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
 and culture, and an expert on Molana Jalaleddin Balkhi (Rumi) and his works. He was a distinguished professor of literature at Tehran University.

Critical edition of Diwan e Shams (in 10 volumes) by Forouzanfar is the best edition of the book available to date. The same is true for the critical edition of Mathnawi by B. Forouzanfar and Jalal Homaei
Jalal Homaei

Jalal Homaei, also known as Ostad jalalaldin Homaei, is known for his contributions to Persian literature, Iranian languages, and Iranian culture....
. The first critical edition of Fihi ma fihi
Fihi Ma Fihi

The Fihi ma fihi , is a prose work of rumi in persian language. The book consists of 72 short discourses....
 has been also done by B. Forouzanfar, which is now well known in the West thanks to the selective translation of A. J. Arberry
Arthur John Arberry

Arthur John Arberry was a respected and most prolific scholar of Arabic, Persian, and Islamic studies. He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge....
.

He was also a first cousin (maternal) of another famous, if less successful, Iranian scholar of literature, Prof. Mohammad Parvin Gonabadi.

His notable students

  • Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub
  • Amir Hossein Aryanpour
    Amir Hossein Aryanpour

    Amir-Hossein Aryanpour was an Iranian philosopher, sociologist and literary figure.Amir Hossein Aryanpour was an expert in western philosophy and Persian culture and Iranistics....
  • Simin Daneshvar
    Simin Daneshvar

    Simin Daneshvar is an Persian people academic, renowned novelist, fiction writer and translator of literary works from English language, German language, Italian language and Russian language into Persian language....
  • Mohammad-Reza Shafiei-Kadkani
  • Zabihollah Safa
    Zabihollah Safa

    Zabihollah Safa was a scholar and professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at the University of Tehran of Tehran.His main contribution to the field of Iranian studies is seen in his seminal and comprehensive works on the history of Persian literature....
  • Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nodooshan
  • Ja'far Shahidi


See also

  • Persian literature
    Persian literature

    Persian literature spans two and a half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources has been within historical greater Iran including present-day Iran as well as reigions of Central Asia where the Persian language has been the national language through history....
  • Molana (Rumi)
  • Five-Masters
    Five-Masters

    Five-Masters refers to five very influential masters of Persian literature, Badiozzaman Forouzanfar, Mohammad Taghi Bahar, Jalal Homaei, Abdolazim Gharib and Rashid Yasemi....