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Tribute to the World Greatest Past & Present Iranologists
Ahmad Tafazzoli
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Professor Ahmad Tafazzoli |
Dr. Ahmad Tafazzoli was born in Isfahan in 1937. He was a prominent Persian Iranist and master of ancient Iranian literature and culture.
Professor Tafazzoli was a faculty member of Tehran University. One of his most important books and his latest masterpiece is "Pre-Islamic Persian Literature". Professor
Dzaleh Amouzegar contributed in editing it.
In January 15, 1997, Professor Ahmad Tafazzoli was found dead in Punak, a suburb northwest of Tehran. He was known to have contacts with many Iranian academics working abroad, and many of his colleagues believed that the
Islamic regime's authorities were behind his death, as part of the chain murders of Iran. While the precise circumstances remained unclear, Tafazzoli's death created a climate of fear at the university and discouraged criticism of the
Islamic regime..
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"History is the Light on the Path to Future" |
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Encyclopaedia Iranica
The British Institute of Persian Studies "Persepolis Reconstructed"
The British Museum
The Royal Asiatic Society
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