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Dr Mohammad Jafar Mahjub
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Dr. Mohammad Jafar Mahjoub (Persian: محمدجعفر محجوب) (23 August 1924 - 17 February 1996) was a prominent Iranian scholar of Persian literature, essayist, translator and teacher. Life Dr. Mahjoub was born in Tehran in 1924 and graduated from the prestigious Alborz High School in 1944. He obtained his bachelor's degree in political science from Tehran University in 1947. During this time he was employed as a stenographer at the Majlis, where he was recruited into the leftist Tudeh Party.[1] He continued his affiliation with the Tudeh Party for some ten years, working in the press division and authoring unsigned editorials. He later severed all ties with the party and focused strictly on scholarly pursuits. He obtained a second bachelor's degree in 1954 and his Ph.D. in Persian literature from Tehran University in 1963. His dissertation on the Khorasani style in Persian poetry was published as a book and is regarded as a standard text on the subject. He taught Persian literature at the Teacher Training College (Tarbiat Moallem University), becoming full professor in 1968, and at Tehran University. He was a visiting professor at Oxford University in the academic year 1971-72, and a guest professor at the University of Strasbourg in 1972-73. He was Iran's cultural attaché to Pakistan from 1974 to 1979. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution he was appointed as the head of Academy of Persian Language and Literature and the National Academy for the Arts, a post he held until 1980.