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Rajabov, Ma'rufkhoja
Tajik linguist Ma'rufkhoja Saidovich Rajabov was born into a family
of workers in Kulab on February 14, 1955. He received his early educa-
tion in Kulab.
Rajabov graduated with distinction from the Kulab Pedagogical
University in 1976. Thereafter, he worked at the same institution as a
teacher. In 1979, he entered the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute. In
1983 and 1984, he worked as the Director of the Propaganda Division
of the House of Atheism for the "Donish" Association of the Republic.
In 1983, he defended his thesis, entitled Inkishofi Zhonri Ta'rikh dar
Nasri Solhoi 60-70i Adabiyoti Shavravii Tojik (The Development of the

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History Genre in the Prose Works of Soviet Tajik Literature During the

1960s and 1970s). In 1989, he defended his dissertation, entitled
Ta'rikhi Tanqid va Adabiyot Shinosi: Asoshoi Nazari u Astitikii Adabi-
yoti Shavravii Tojik dar Marhalai Yakum, Solhoi 1920-1950 (The His-
tory of Criticism and Literary Criticism: Theoretical and Aesthetical
Bases of Soviet Tajik Literature During the First Phase--1920-1950).
In 1984, Rajabov became the Director of the Rudaki Language and
Literature Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, a position
that he currently holds. In 2000, Rajabov was first appointed an affiliate
member of the Academy; and later, Acting Academic Secretary of the
Sociology Division of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.
Rajabov's contributions include Tadqiqi Ta'rikh--Tadqiqi Kharakter
(Research in History--Research in Character, 1990); Nasri Tojikii
Zamoni Jang: Tahavvoli Poetica (The Tajik Prose of the War Years:
Transformation of Poetics, 1990); Islom: Jadidia va Inqilob (Islam: The
Jadids and the Revolution, 1997).
Rajabov received the Sadriddin Aini State Prize for Literature in
1999.
Rajabov, Muso
Tajik philosopher Muso Rajabov was born into a family of retailers
in the village of Darozai Kaloni Bukhara on March 20, 1918. He joined
the CPSU in 1941.
Rajabov graduated from the Bukharan State Pedagogical Institute in
1939. From 1939 to 1946 he served at the war front. Between 1946 and
1953, he worked at various organizations in the Communist Party. From
1948 to 1955, he was a member of, and a reader for, the Central Com-
mittee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan. From 1953 to 1955, he
was the Minister of Education of the Republic. From 1955 to 1960, he
became the Director of Marxism-Leninism of the Dushanbe State Peda-
gogical Institute. In 1960, he was Prorector dealing with scientific af-
fairs of the same institute. He was the Assistant Director of the Tajik
Division of the Soviet Friendship between India and the Soviet Union.
He was a member of the Editorial Board of Komunisti Tojikiston (Taji-
kistan Communist). He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1971,
and became a professor in 1972.
Rajabov's contributions include Mirovozzrenie Ubaida Zakoni
(Ubaid Zokoni's Worldview, Stalinabad, 1958); Abdurrakhman Dzhami

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