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Abdullozoda, Sherzod
Tajik historian Sherzod Abdullozoda, also referred to as Abdulloev,
was
born
in the
village of Niknom
of Panjakent on September 26, 1946.
He graduated from Middle School in 1964.
Abdullozoda graduated from the Tajikistan State University Faculty
of Oriental Studies with a degree in Arabic Language and Literature in

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1970. Between 1979 and 1983, he completed his post-graduate studies.

In 1983, he defended his dissertation entitled Oqibathoi Ijtimoii Inqilobi
Ilmio Tekhniki az Didgohi Ilohiyyoti Islomi (The Social Consequences
of Scientific Revolution from the Point of View of Islamic Theology). In
1992, he was appointed as the Director of the Department of Philosophy
and Religion of the same institute.
Abdullozoda's contributions include Islomi Muosir dar Arsai Siosat
va Ideologia (Contemporary Islam in the Arena of Politics and Ideol-
ogy, Dushanbe, 1990); Ma'orifparvari va Ozodfikri (Freethinking and
Educational Development, Dushanbe, 1994). The latter work deals with
the philosophical and religious thought of Tajik intellectual Ahmad
Donish. Abdullozoda's
other
contributions
include
Muqaddama
ba Islom-
shinosi (An Introduction to the Study of Islam, Dushanbe, 1998); and
Asoshoi Dinshinosi (The Bases of the Study of Religion, Dushanbe,
2001).
Abdullozoda has traveled to Iran and the republics of the former
Soviet Union.
Abdumannonov, Abdurahmon
Tajik literary critic Abdurahmon Abdumannonov was born into a
family of farmers in the village of Boghiston of Tashkent on April 6,
1947.
Abdumannonov graduated from Tajikistan State University in 1968.
From 1972 to 1975, he was a Scientific Worker at the Institute of
Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. From 1975
to 1978, he was the Chief Scientific Editor and Chief Editor of the Tajik
Soviet Encyclopedia. In 1979, he became the Chief Scientific Worker of
the Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature at the Academy of
Sciences of Tajikistan.
Abdumannonov's research deals with the works of the Iranian poet
Malak al-Shu'ara Bahar and the question of "new Persian poetry."
Abdumannonov has written several essays about this subject. He is also
one of the authors of the six-volume Ta'rikhi Adabiyoti Sovetii Tojik:
Inkishofi Zhonrho (The History of Soviet-Tajik Literature: Development
of the Genres). He is also interested in the realist elements in the poetry
of the Perso-Tajik peoples, especially the inception and development of
socialist realism in contemporary Tajik literature.

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Abdumannonov has written extensively on the works of such Tajik

greats as Aini, Lahuti, Payrav, Tursunzoda, Ikromi, Shukuhi, Ansori,
Sherali, Gulrukhsor, Gulnazar, and others.
Abdumannonov became a member of the Union of Writers of the
Soviet Union in 1984.