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Jalilov, Abduhamid
Tajik historian Abduhamid Jalilov was born into a worker's family in
the village of Mahram in Khonibodom on May 25, 1926. He joined the
CPSU in 1947.
Jalilov graduated from the Leninabad Pedagogical Institute with a
degree in history in 1948. From 1953 to 1966, he was a Laboratory
Technician, then a Junior, and later a Senior Scientific Worker at the In-
stitute of History. In 1966, he became the Head of the Department of
World History in the Middle Ages at Tajikistan State University. He re-
ceived his doctorate degree in history in 1976 and became a professor in
1978.
Jaliliov's research deals with the problems of Soviet Sughdology,
history, and the history of Tajik civilization in the Middle Ages. He is
one of the authors of the multi-volume Ta'rikhi RSS Tojikiston (History
of the Peoples of SSR of Tajikistan). His other contributions include
Sogd nakanune arabskogo nashestvia i bor'ba sogdiitsev protiv arab-
skikh zavoevatelei v pervoi polovine VIII v. (Sughdia Before the Arab
Invasion and the Struggle of the Sughdians Against Arab Invaders at
the Beginning of the 8
th
 Century, Stalinabad, 1961); Iz Istorii kul'turnoi
zhizni predkov tadzhikskogo naroda i tadzhikov v rannem srednevekov'e
(From the History of the Ancestors of the Tajiks and the Tajiks of the
Middle Ages, Dushanbe, 1973); and Iz Istorii polozhenia zhenshchin
Srednei Azii do i posle rasprostranenia islama (From the History of the
Condition of Central Asian Women Before and After the Spread of
Islam, Dushanbe, 1974).
Jalilov was recognized as a Distinguished Contributor to Tajik Edu-
cation in 1976 and to Soviet Education in 1979.
Jalilov, Manzur
Tajik geologist Manzur Rahimovich Jalilov was born in Khujand on
June 12, 1932. He joined the CPSU in 1962.
Jalilov graduated from Tajikistan State University in 1956. From
1956 to 1957, he was a Scientific Worker at the Institute of Geology of
the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. In 1967, he became the Director

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