Mohammad Moin
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Mohammad Moin (Persian: محمد معین) (July 12, 1914, Rasht, Iran — July 4, 1971, Tehran, Iran)[1] was a prominent Iranian scholar of Persian literature and Iranology.
Mohammad Moin obtained his BA in literature and philosophy from University of Tehran (?) in 1934. He subsequently went to Belgium and graduated at University of (?) in applied psychology, anthropology and cognitive science under Elmer Knowles. On returning to Iran he carried out doctoral research at University of Tehran, culminating in a thesis for which he received a PhD with honours from this University in Persian literature and linguistics. He is the first doctoral graduate in Persian literature from University of Tehran. He was later appointed full professor at University of Tehran, from which position he was subsequently promoted as Distinguished Professor to the chair of Literary Criticism and Research in Literary Texts at the same University. He is best known for his contributions to The Dehkhoda Dictionary, a work he did in collaboration with Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda himself. Moin was President of the literature commission of the International Congress of Iranology.
Mohammad Moin died in 1971 in Tehran. He is buried in Astaneh Ashrafiyeh, Gilan, Iran. His burial chamber was vandalized in 1981 by fundamentalist vigilantes, thought to be due to Moin's ties to the Pahlavi régime and/or his works on the ancient Iranian languages which may have been deemed as un-Islamic by the perpetrators.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Date of birth July 12, 1914, is according to Professor Moin's own notes. However, some sources indicate April 29, 1918, as the date of birth. The latter date seems somewhat unlikely, since it would imply that he should have obtained his BA at the age of approximately sixteen, requiring his entrance to university at approximately twelve or perhaps fourteen, depending on the duration of the BA course. Increasing these values by four leads to reasonable ages, leading one to consider July 12, 1914, as the correct date of birth.
[edit] Awards and Honours
- Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Letters
- Tamhour from Academie des Inscriptions
- Highest medal for Art and Literature form French government
- Distinguished Professor of Tehran University
