Abolghasem Radfar Passes Away

Abolghasem Radfar, writer and Persian language professor, passed away at the age of 76.

Abolqasem Radfar - writer and professor of Persian language - died at the age of 76.

According to Ambassador Arjan, Abolqasem Radfar was born in 1329 in Tafarsh city, and the Humanities and Cultural Studies Institute announced today (Monday, October 20th) the death of this author, researcher and distinguished professor of Persian language literature.

Radfar completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown. In 1353, he received a bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Literature of Mashhad University. He received his master's degree in 1357 from Tehran University Faculty of Literature. Also, in 1362, he finished his doctoral course at Tehran University by defending his thesis entitled "Criticism and review of grammar points of Persian cultures from the point of view of linguistics and phonetics".

He has written about his background: Since 1360, I have been working as a researcher at the Research Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies (Institute of Cultural Studies and Research), during which I was responsible for the following activities: cooperation in the project of grammar and linguist under the supervision of the late Dr. Khosrow Farshidvard, supervision and completion of the list of Habish Tbilisi's literature code (Arabic-Persian culture), which Unfortunately, it has not been published yet, under the supervision of the Iran and Islam Scholars Culture project, the first part: biographies of women (ready to be published) and the second part: biographies of historians, geographers, and travel writers (in progress), under the supervision of the biographies of poets (the first volume A and A of which are about 600 pages, ready to be printed), under the supervision of the Orientalist culture (until the publication of the first volume) Its cover is printed.

In addition to teaching in various universities, I am the head of the literature research institute and the director of the Persian language and literature department (from 1376 to April 1392) and the director of the literary research group in various subjects of the literature research institute.

Also, from May 1372 to November 1375, I was in charge of teaching Masnavi, Hafiz, contemporary literature, grammar and linguistics and Persian studies at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India. In addition to administrative research works, I have written more than 25 books and 80 articles in the fields of bibliography, grammatical and linguistic issues, and various literary issues.

In addition, for about 30 years, he has been teaching various courses in the universities of Tehran, Al-Zahra, Shahid Beheshti, Tarbiat Modares and Zahedan and Shahid Bahnerkarman universities, Jiroft Azad University, Iranshahr Azad University and Humanities Research Institute, including the history of Iranian literature (1 to 4), history of world literature, contemporary literature, comparative literature, Persian grammar, religion I have been in charge of writing, reference studies and research methods, introductions to linguistics, literary criticism, innovation, stylistics of prose and prose, language construction, meanings and expressions, and texts of prose and prose, and currently I am teaching in the Faculty of Arts of Tarbiat Madras University and the Humanities Research Institute in the master's degree in Persian and Arabic and Ph.D. in Persian literature.

Among his works, we can mention these books: "A Few Elegies of Persian-Speaking Poets", "Selected Poems of Saif Ferghani", "Selected Persian Poems of Iqbal Lahori", "Anthology of Story and Drama", "Hafez Pajohan and Hafez Pajohi", "Rhetorical-Literary Culture", "Tabari Bibliography", cooperation in preparing the book of Miftah Al-Mizan. (A Guide to Tafsir al-Mizan by Allameh Tabatabai), "Military Bibliography of Ganjavi", Bibliography of Qur'an Translations, "Culture of Hariri Officials" correction and introduction, with the cooperation of Dr. Aladdin Iftikhar Javadi, "Correction of Riaz al-Shaarai Vale Dagestani", "History of Mystical Tadzirahs", "Kashmir of Minor Iran", "Interaction of Art and Literature in School" Isfahan", "Zanan Aref", "Literary bibliography of the Isfahan school", "Ferdosi and the Shahnameh beyond the borders", "Roodaki bibliography, Tehran", "Remembrance of Riaz Al-Arifin" by Reza Qoli Khan Hedayat, proofreading and introduction with the cooperation of Ms. Gita Ashidari, "Events" by Mullah Khata Shoushtri, "Andisehes Zarrein Ferdowsi", "Andisehes Zarrein Iqbal" Lahori", "Thoughts of Tagore", "Bibliography of Beyhaqi History" and "Bibliography of Comparative Literature".