Badiozzaman Forouzanfar

Badi'ozzamān Foruzānfar
Badǐ'ozzamān Forǔzānfar
Born	(1904-07-12)July 12, 1904 Boshrooyeh in Ferdows County, Persia
Died	May 6, 1970(1970-05-06) Tehran, Persia
Nationality	Iranian
Occupation	Scholar
Known for	Scholar of Persian literature, Iranian linguistics and culture, and an expert on Molana (Rumi) and his works.

Badi'ozzamān Foruzānfar (12 July 1904 to a Kurdish family, Boshrooyeh in Ferdows County – 6 May 1970 in Tehran) (Persian: بدیع‌الزمان فروزانفر‎‎, born Ziyaa' Boshrooye-i ضيا بشرويه‌ای ) was a scholar of Persian literature, Iranian linguistics and culture, and an expert on Molana Jalaleddin Balkhi (Rumi) and his works. He was a distinguished professor of literature at Tehran University.

Critical edition of Diwan e Shams (in 10 volumes) by Forouzanfar is the best edition of the book available to date. 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.

He was also a first cousin (maternal) of another famous Iranian scholar of literature, Prof. Mohammad Parvin Gonabadi.

His notable students

• Mehrdad Avesta
• Parviz Natel Khanlari
• Zabihollah Safa
• Ehsan Yarshater
• Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub
• Amir Hossein Aryanpour
• Mohammad-Amin Riahi
• Simin Daneshvar
• Mohammad-Reza Shafiei-Kadkani
• Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nodooshan
• Ja'far Shahidi
• Seyfeddin Najmabadi
• Jalal Matini
• Mahmoud Neshat
• William Chittick

See also

• Persian literature
• Molana (Rumi)
• Five-Masters