Mohammad Davoudi

Mohammad Davoudi
File:Mohammad.Davoudi.jpg Mohammad Davoudi
Born	December 27, 1943(1943-12-27) Nowshahr, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Alma mater	Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Known for	A scholar of literature, history and languages of Northern Iran

Mohammad Davoudi (in Persian: محمد داودی) (December 27, 1943, Nowshahr) is a scholar of Iranian literature, linguistics, and Persian history. He is famous for edition and Persian translation of Divan-e Amir Pazevari, a 17th century Sufi Tabari poet of Mazandaran (Tabaristan).^[1] Also, he is one of the authors of the Grand Dictionary of Tabari language.^[2][3].

Research works

Some of his main books about the history, literature, and languages of Mazandaran and Taleghan:

Books in Publication:

• Mohammad Davoudi and Mohammad Ali Manouchehri, "The dictionary of Tati language of Taleghan".

• Mohammad Davoudi and Mohammad Ali Manouchehri, "Taleghan in mirror of documents"

Published Books:

• Mohammad Davoudi, "correction and edition of the book: who was Dr. Heshmat and what was Jangal movement", written by Mohammad Tamimi Taleghani, Resanesh Publishing Group, 2009. This is a documentary research about Dr. Heshmat Taleqani, a physician who was the theoretician of Jangal movement of Gilan in Iran's early 20th century.^[4]

• Mohammad Davoudi and Manouchehr Sotoudeh, "correction and Persian translation of Divan-e Amir Pazevari". Resanesh Publishing Group, July 2004. Amir Pazevari was a 15th century Tabari poet and sufi in Mazandaran inspiring many generations of the region. This work was done with Prof. Manouchehr Sotoudeh, emeritus professor of Department of Literature at University of Tehran, who is known to be the father of Historical geography in Iran, and the 2003 national influential eminent in literature defined by Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame.

• Group of Authors, "Grand Dictionary of Tabari language", in Five Volumes, Ehya-e Ketab Publishing Group, Feb. 2003. This was a 15 years team work of ten researchers in Mazandaran, Gilan, and Golestan provinces in order to vitalize the ancient, but yet speaking, Tabari language in Northern Iran^[5][6]. Mohammad Davoudi was responsible for Nowshahr, Kojour, and Noor linguistic-cultural regions.

Articles:

• Mohammad Davoudi, "some unheard issues about Nima Yooshij", Abakhtar Humanities Journal, Volume 18, year five, pages 313-317, Fall 2009.

• Mohammad Davoudi, "eulogy in Persian literature", Chista Journal, No. 228 and 229, pages 610-618, April 2006.

Personal life

He had married to Aghdas Afrouzeh in 1973 and they have five children, Arash, Parisa, Babak, Maziar, and Heydar.

See also

• Persian literature
• Iranology
• Alireza Shapour Shahbazi
• Richard Nelson Frye
• Ehsan Yarshater
• Mohammad-Amin Riahi
• Ahmad Tafazzoli
• Mehrdad Bahar
• Manouchehr Sotoudeh

References

1. ^ Mohammad Davoudi and Manouchehr Sotoudeh, "correction and Persian translation of Divan-e Amir Pazevari". Resanesh Publishing Group, Tehran, Iran, July 2004.
2. ^ A review written for the Grand Dictionary of Tabari Language by Behrouz Mahmoudi from Iran's Humanities Research Center
3. ^ Group of Authors, Farhang-e vāžegān-e Tabarī [Grand Dictionary of Tabari Language]. 5 v., 2882 pp. Tehran: Eḥyā’-ketāb”: 2002/1381 A.P. A comparative glossary containing lexical units from almost all major urban and rural centers of the region of the three provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran, and Golestan. Reviewed in Iran and the Caucasus, 2006, 10(2). Volume 4 contains a Persian-Mazandarani index of approximately 190 pp. Volume 5 includes a grammar of the Mazandarani language
4. ^ What was the Jangal Movement and Who was Dr. Heshmat
5. ^ A Review of the Grand Dictionary of Tabari Language by Professor Manouchehr Sotoudeh, Abakhtar Journal, Fall 2008.
6. ^ Borjian, Habib. 2006. The Oldest Known Texts in New Tabari: The Collection of Aleksander Chodzko. Archiv Orientálni 74(2):153–171.

External links

• Mohammad Davoudi's Personl Homepage
• Divan-e Amir Pazevari
• What was the Jangal Movement and Who was Dr. Heshmat

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Date of birth	December 27, 1943
Place of birth	Nowshahr, Iran
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