P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Abdulloev
See Abdullozoda, Sherzod.
Abdulloev, Ahmad
Tajik literary critic Ahmad Abdulloev, also referred to as Ahmad
Abdullo, was born into a scholarly family in the village of Bibishirin in
the Boisun district of Surkhan Dariya province, on March 15, 1936.
Abdulloev graduated from the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in
1957 and started work at the Rudaki Institute of Language and Lit-
erature of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in 1962.
Abdulloev's research, which deals with Perso-Tajik literature, in-
cludes analyses and appreciation of the works of medieval Tajik writers.
In this context, he has contributed the following: Adib Sobiri Tirmidhi
(Adib Sobir of Termez, 1969), Zahir Foryobi (Zahir of Fariab, 1974),
and Adabiyoti Forsu Tojik dar Nimai Avvali Asri Yozdah ( Persian and
Tajik Literatures of the First Half of the 11
th
 Century, 1979). He
received his doctorate degree in philology in 1984.
As part of his effort to understand the language, culture, and lit-
erature of pre-Mongol Central Asia, Abdulloev researched the works of
Unsuri, Farrukhi, and Manuchihri. In the works of the latter, he looked
for artistic innovations.

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Other contributions of Abdulloev include Romontizmi Ustuvor va

Mailhoi Reolisti (Solid Romanticism and Realist Tendencies, 1979),
Sino va Raviyahoi Nazmi Zamoni U (Avicenna and the Poetic Trends of
His Time, 1980), and Oghozi Shi'ri Tojik (The Dawn of Tajik Poetry,
1983).
Abdulloev joined the Union of Writers of Tajikistan in1984.
Abdulloev, Ibodullo
Tajik music conductor Ibodullo Ermurodovich Abdulloev was born
into a farmer's family in the village of Qaraqchiqum in the Konibodom
district of northern Tajikistan, on December 9, 1918. He joined the
CPSU in 1944.
Abdulloev began his career at the Leninabad Music School in 1930
as a teacher of violin. From 1934 to 1939, he studied at the Moscow
State Conservatory Music School. He participated in the war effort from
1939 to 1946. For a while, thereafter, he was the violin player for the
symphony orchestra attached to the Aini Theater for the Academy of
Opera and Ballet. In 1950, after he graduated from the Moscow State
Conservatory, he returned to Dushanbe and continued his work there. In
1970, he became the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Aini
Theater for the Academy of Opera and Ballet. The following are
examples of works performed under his direction: music for
Tchaikovsky's Kuli Quvon (Swan Lake, 1950), music for Sh.
Sayfuddinov's opera Pulod va Gulru (Pulad and Gulru, 1957), music
for S. A. Balasanian's Shurishi Vose' (The Vose' Uprising, 1958), and
music for a number of other works.
Beginning in 1950, Abdulloev began teaching music, first at the
music schools and, after 1968, as part of the staff of the Dushanbe
Pedagogical Institute for the Arts. He is recognized as one of the main
promoters of symphonic music in the region. Abdulloev he was rec-
ognized as a Distinguished Artist of Tajikistan in 1968, and as a
People's Artist of the Republic in 1974.