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Mulloahmadov, Mirzo
Tajik literary scholar Mirzo Mulloahmadov was born in the village
of Darbar in the Aini district in 1948. He graduated from Tajikistan
State University with distinction in 1969. From the same year until the
present, he contributes as part of the staff of the Academy of Sciences
of Tajikistan.

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From 1978 to 1980, Mulloahmadov worked in Iran as a translator. In

1983, he joined the staff of Tajikistan State University as a teacher of
language and literature, as well as history and oriental studies. In 1994,
he worked in Iran at the University of Isfahan. In the same year, he be-
came a member of the Union of Tajik Writers. He is currently the Head
of the Iran-Tajikistan Friendship Association.
Mulloahmadov's work is dedicated to research in the history of Iran
and Tajikistan from ancient times to the present. He has prepared and
published many of the major works from Persian literature including the
Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the Qabusnoma of Kaikavus, and the
Diary of Iskandarbek. Mulloahmadov is one of the editors of "Anis." In
2000, he became a member of the prestigious Iranian Encyclopedia of
Anthropology. He was also one of the editors of the Literary Persian
Encyclopedia published in Tehran in 2001.
Mullo Boqi Maschohi
See Boqi, Mullo.
Mullojonov, Mas'ud
Tajik critic and publicist Mas'ud Mullojonov was born into a
worker's family in Dushanbe on November 3, 1929. He joined the
CPSU in 1959.
Mullojonov graduated from the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in
1949. After that, he became a post-graduate student while working for
the republic's journals, television and radio, especially the propaganda
divisions. He also worked for TajikFilm. In 1968, he became the Chief
Editor of Pamir, as well as the secretary of the Union of Writers of
Tajikistan. In 1970, he became a correspondent for Literaturnaya
Gazieta. Mullojonov began publishing articles in 1951.
His contributions include "Hamdami Zamon va Hamnafasi Khalq"
("A Friend of Time and a Partner of the People," 1962), "Naqshi
Zamon" ("The Role of the Times," 1977), "Kholiq Mirzozoda" ("Kholiq
Mirzozoda," 1963), "Portretho" ("The Portraits," 1981), "Norak"
("Norak," 1974), "Hududi Shujo'at" ("The Limits of Bravery," 1976),
and Hikoyaho dar borai Tojikiston (Stories About Tajikistan, 1977).
The latter two works are in Russian.

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Mullojonov was a recipient of the Red Banner of Courage, the 100

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Anniversary of the Birth of Lenin Prize, and the Honorary Order of the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan and Belarus.