Ahmad Tafazzoli
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other Ahmad Tafazzoli (December 16, 1937, Isfahan – January 15, 1997, Tehran) (Template:Langx) was an Iranian Iranist and professor of ancient Iranian languages and culture at Tehran University.[1]
One of his most important books is Pre-Islamic Persian Literature. Jaleh Amouzegar contributed in editing it.
In January 1997, Ahmad Tafazzoli was found dead[2] in Punak, a suburb northwest of Tehran near Jannat Abad. He was known to have contacts with Iranian academics working abroad, and many of his colleagues believed that the 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 government.[3]
See also
Other notable Iranologists:
References
Further reading
- The Spirit of Wisdom: Menog I Xrad : Essays in Memory of Ahmad Tafazzoli Template:ISBN
External links
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- ↑ Philippe Gignoux, "TAFAŻŻOLI, AḤMAD", Encyclopaedia Iranica Online
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- 1937 births
- 1997 deaths
- 20th-century Iranian linguists
- Burials at artist's block of Behesht-e Zahra
- Iranian critics
- Iranian Iranologists
- Iranian murder victims
- Writers from Isfahan
- Linguists from Iran
- Members of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature
- People murdered in Iran
- Academic staff of the University of Tehran
- Unsolved murders in Iran
- Chain murders of Iran