Badiozzaman Forouzanfar
Badi'ozzamān Foruzānfar (12 July 1904, Boshrooyeh in Ferdows County- 6 May 1970, 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 same is true for the critical edition of Mathnawi by B. Forouzanfar and Jalal Homaei. 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.
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