Parviz Natel Khanlari’s important and lasting work is “History of Persian Language”, which is considered to be the only reference book in this field. The structure of the Persian grammar book was based on 5 volumes, which included the language of the Iranians from ancient times to the contemporary period. The first volume contained terms about the language of ancient Iran and Middle Persian until the advent of Islam. The second volume contained the languages and dialects that were formed and developed in the territory of Iran after Islam. This period ends in the seventh century AH. The third volume includes the syntactic, lexical and phonological features of the second period of Dari Persian, ie after the Mongol conquest. This period ends in the thirteenth century and is one of the most influential periods in contemporary Persian. The fourth volume is about the contemporary Persian language and its evolution and the fifth volume is about the Persian language in neighboring countries such as Tajikistan, Afghanistan and the subcontinent. During his lifetime, Khanlari succeeded in writing only the first and second volumes in several volumes, which is one of the valuable and lasting works in this field. He also established a comprehensive plan based on Persian language tools for compiling a dictionary, which he only managed to prepare and publish a part of the first period.
About Author:
Parviz Natel Khanlari graduated from Tehran University in 1943 with a doctorate degree in Persian literature, and began his academic career in the faculty of arts and letters. He also studied linguistics at Paris University for two years. From then on, Khanlari founded a new course named history of Persian language in Tehran University.
Khanlari’s contributions fall into several categories. Apart from his academic career which continued until the 1979 revolution, he held numerous administrative positions in the Iran in the 1960s through the late 1970s. Early in his career, he was the Governor of Azerbaijan Province. Later on, he served first as the Deputy Prime Minister and later as the Minister of Education of Iran. He served as the representative of Mazandaran in four sessions of the Iranian Parliament. He was also the founder of the Iranian Culture Foundation (Bonyad-e Farhang-e Iran). His efforts were instrumental in the establishment and operation of the Iran Academy of Arts and Literature of Iran, the Franklin Institute, and other cultural and educational institutions.
Parviz Natel Khanlari was founder and editor of Sokhan magazine, a leading literary journal with wide circulation among Iraninan intellectuals and literary scholars from the early 1940s to 1978.
Born: March 20, 1914, Tehran, Iran
Died: August 23, 1990, Tehran, Iran
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