Mohammad-Amin Riahi [SEP] place of death
Mohammad-Amin Riahi
Mohammad-Amin Riahi (; 1 June 1923, Khoy – 15 May 2009, Tehran) was a prominent Iranian literary scholar of Persian literature, a historian, writer and statesman. Apart from being one of the authors of Dehkhoda Dictionary and Encyclopædia Iranica, he was the author and editor of several well-known scholarly books. Mohammad-Amin Riahi received his PHD on Persian literature from Tehran University
under the supervision of Badiozzaman Forouzanfar. Riahi is best known for his scholarly works on Shahnameh and Ferdowsi
Rumi's Masnavi.
He was also a first cousin (maternal) of another famous Iranian scholar of literature, Professor Mohammad Parvin Gonabadi.
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
- Jalal Matini
- Mahmoud Neshat
- William Chittick
See