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Muhammadkhojayev, Ahmadjon
Tajik scholar Ahmadjon Muhammadkhojayev was born in the
village of Rokharv in Badakhshan on February 10, 1941.
Muhammadkhojayev graduated from Tajikistan State University
with a degree in Persian language and philology in 1961. After a stint in
the army, he worked in the high schools of Kokhozabad. From 1965 to
1968, he was a post-graduate student in the Institute of History of the
Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. In 1991, he defended his thesis on
Jahonbinii Faridaddin Attor (Farid al-Din Attor's Worldview) and
became a candidate of science. In 1992, he defended his dissertation
entitled Ideologioi Naqshbandiya (The Naqshbandiya Ideology).
Muhammadkhojayev was elected a Corresponding Member of the
Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in 1997. At the present, he is the
Head of the Department of History of Philosophy.
Muhammadkhojayev's contributions include Jahonbinii Faridaddin
Attor (Farid al-Din Attor's Worldview), 1974; Nazariyai Ma'rifati
Tasawuf (Theory on Sufic Gnosis), 1991; Ideologiai Naqshbandiya (The
Naqshbandi Ideology), 1991; and Khoja Ahror--Hayot va Ta'limot
(Khoja Ahror--His Life and Teachings), 2000.
Muhiddinov, Badriddin
Tajik roentgenologist Badriddin Najmiddinovich Muhiddinov was
born on December 16, 1924, in the city of Bukhara.
Muhiddinov graduated from the Tajikistan State Medical Institute in
1944. From then until 1947, he was the Director of the Gharm Division
of the Health Services of Tajikistan. From 1948 to 1950, he was the
chief physician at the Obigarm resort. He returned to his supervision of
the Gharm Division of the Health Services in 1951, and continued his
service there until 1955. Thereafter, until 1957 he worked at the
Ministry of Health. Between 1958 and 1969, he was a post-graduate,
intern, and an Assistant Professor. He became a doctor of medicine in
1968, and a professor in 1970. In the same year, he became the Head of

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