Parviz Natel-Khanlari
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Parviz Natel Khanlari Mazandarni (1914 - 1990 Mazandaran, Iran
) , Iranian literary scholar, linguist
, author
, researcher
and professor at Tehran University.
degree in Persian literature
, and began his academic career in the faculty of arts and letters. He also studied linguistics
at Paris University for two years. from then on, Khanlari founded a new course named history of Persian language in Tehran University.
Khanlari's contributions fall into several categories. apart from his academic career which continued until the 1979 revolution, he held numerous administrative positions in the Iran in the 1960's through the late 1970's. Early in his career, he was the Governor of Azerbaijan Province. Later on, he served first as the Deputy Prime Minister and later as the Minister of Education of Iran. He served as the representative of Mazandaran in four sessions of the Iranian Parliament. He was also the founder of the Iranian Culture Foundation (Bonyad-e Farhang-e Iran). His efforts were instrumental in the establishment and operation of the Iran Academy of Arts and Literature of Iran, the Franklin Institute, and other cultural and educational institutions.
Parviz Natel Khanlari was founder and editor of Sokhan magazine, a leading literary journal with wide circulation among Iraninan intellectuals and literary scholars from early 1940's to 1978.
Khanlari as a writer, is distinguished for the simplicity of his style. He did not follow the traditionalists nor did he advocate the new. Indeed, his approach accommodated the entire spectrum of creativity and expression in Persian literature.
Iran
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) , Iranian literary scholar, linguist
Linguistics
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, author
Author
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, researcher
Researcher
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and professor at Tehran University.
Biography
Parviz Natel Khanlari graduated from Tehran University in 1943 with a doctorateDoctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
degree in Persian literature
Persian literature
Persian literature spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources have been within historical Persia including present-day Iran as well as regions of Central Asia where the Persian language has historically been the national language...
, and began his academic career in the faculty of arts and letters. He also studied linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
at Paris University for two years. from then on, Khanlari founded a new course named history of Persian language in Tehran University.
Khanlari's contributions fall into several categories. apart from his academic career which continued until the 1979 revolution, he held numerous administrative positions in the Iran in the 1960's through the late 1970's. Early in his career, he was the Governor of Azerbaijan Province. Later on, he served first as the Deputy Prime Minister and later as the Minister of Education of Iran. He served as the representative of Mazandaran in four sessions of the Iranian Parliament. He was also the founder of the Iranian Culture Foundation (Bonyad-e Farhang-e Iran). His efforts were instrumental in the establishment and operation of the Iran Academy of Arts and Literature of Iran, the Franklin Institute, and other cultural and educational institutions.
Parviz Natel Khanlari was founder and editor of Sokhan magazine, a leading literary journal with wide circulation among Iraninan intellectuals and literary scholars from early 1940's to 1978.
Khanlari as a writer, is distinguished for the simplicity of his style. He did not follow the traditionalists nor did he advocate the new. Indeed, his approach accommodated the entire spectrum of creativity and expression in Persian literature.
Further reading
- Parviz Natel-Khanlari, editor, Divān-e Hāfez, Volume 1, The Lyrics (Ghazals) (Tehran, Iran, 1362 AH/1983-4). This work has been translated by Peter AveryPeter AveryPeter Avery OBE was an eminent British scholar of Persian and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.He contributed to English language work on Persian history and literature, such as The Age of Expansion and Medieval Persia and published Modern Iran...
, The Collected Lyrics of Hafiz of Shiraz, 603 p. (Archetype, Cambridge, UK, 2007). ISBN 1901383091
External links
- Javād Es'hāghiān, Doctor Khanlari: A wave that did not rest (Doctor Khānlari: Mouji ke Najāsood), in Persian, Āti Bān, 2008, http://atiban.com/article.aspx?id=2928.
Note: The subtitle of this article is a paraphrase of a couplet from a long Persian poem by Mohammad Iqbal (better known in Iran as Eqbāl-e Lāhourí).