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Rahmonov
See Bahori, Abdumalik.

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Rahmonov, Abujabbor

Tajik literary scholar and critic Abujabbor Azizovich Rahmonov was
born on March 15, 1959, in the Khatlan kolkhoz of Kulab. He received
his early education in Tajiki schools of the region.
Rahmonov graduated, with distinction from Tajikistan State Univer-
sity with a degree in philology in 1983. For the next two years, he
worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Soviet Tajik Literature. From
1985 to 1987, he served the Soviet State in Afghanistan. In 1989, he be-
gan work as a trainee in the Department of Soviet Tajik Literature. He
successfully defended his thesis in 1995, and worked at the same de-
partment, first as a Lecturer, and later as an Assistant Professor.
From 1995 to 1999, he was the Director of the Instructions Division
of the Tajikistan State University. After a year of paid leave, he de-
fended his doctorate dissertation at the Institute of Languages and Lit-
eratures of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan in 1999. Since No-
vember of that year, he has served as a Professor of Modern Persian-
Tajiki Literature. Since July 2000, he has also served in the Translation
Bureau at the Office of the President of the Republic.
Rahmonov's contributions include "Ma'rifati Zamon" ("Wisdom of
the Ages," 1995); "Pindorhoi Asotiri dar Adabiyoti Tojiki" ("Mythical
Concepts in Tajik Literature," 1999); and "Nazariyya va Sairi Ta'rikhii
Usturasozii Forsi-tojiki" ("Theory and the Historical Development of
Perso-Tajik Mythology," 1999).
Rahmonov, Imomali
Tajik political leader Imomali Sharipovich Rahmonov was born into
the farming family of Sharif Rahmonov on October 5, 1952, in the vil-
lage of Danghara in the Kulab region (Khatlan) of southern Tajikistan.
He received his early education in the Kulab region and proceeded to
work as an electrician in an oil factory in Qurghonteppa. He performed
his military service in the Navy in the Pacific Ocean. He then entered
the Communist Party. After demobilization, he returned to his job at the
oil factory.
Rahmonov graduated from the Tajikistan State University in 1982
with a degree in economics. Between 1976 and 1988, he was a party
functionary serving as the Chairman of the Trade Union Committee of
Danghara Collective. In July 1988, he became the Director of the Lenin
State Farm in Danghara. In November 2, 1992, he was elected Chair-

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