Badiozzaman Forouzanfar was an oustanding master of Persian literature, Iranianlinguistics and Iranian culture. Persian literature is literature written in Persian. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist or linguistician. ...
He was a distinguished professor of literature at Tehran University. Forouzanfar did life long research on Molana Jalaleddin Balkhi (Rumi) and his works. The University of Tehran (دانشگاه تهران in Persian), also known as Tehran University, is the oldest and largest university of Iran. ... Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi or Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi Rumi (also known as Mowlavi or Moulana, meaning my guide in Iran, Central and South Asia or Mevlana meaning our guide in Turkey) (September 30, 1207 - December 17, 1273 CE) was a Persian poet and Sufi mystic, who was...
Critical edition of Diwan e Shams (in 10 volumes) by Forouzanfar is the best edition of the book available to date. The same is true for the critical edition of Mathnawi by B. Forouzanfar and Jalal Homaei. The Masnavi or Masnavi I Manavi (Ù Ø«ÙÙÛ Ù Ø¹ÙÙÛ in Persian), also written Mathnawi or Mesnevi, written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, the well known Persian Sufi saint and poet, is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. ...
The first critical edition of Fihi ma fihi has been also done by B. Forouzanfar, which is now well known in the West thanks to the selective translation of A. J. Arberry. Arthur John Arberry (1905 - 1969) was a respected scholar of Arabic and Islamic studies. ...