Muchammad Osimi

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Muchammad Osimij (1920–1996)

Mukhammad Ossimij ( Tajik Муҳаммад Осимӣ Muḩammad Osimi ; Russian Мухамед Сайфитдинович Асимов Muchamed Saifitdinowitsch Assimow ;. Scientific transliteration Muchamed Sajfitdinovič Asimov , born on 25. August 1920 in Khujand , died on 26. July 1996 in Dushanbe , Tajikistan (murdered) in the Forms Muhammad Seyfeydinovich Asimov , Muḩammad Asimī , Moḥammad ʿĀṣemi and others) was a Soviet- Tajik politician , philosopher and orientalist . He was president of the Tajik Academy of Sciences .

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Asimov was born on August 25, 1920 in Khujand , then the Turkestan ASSR . He studied physics at the University of Samarkand . His interest and studies led him into philosophy and history and other facets of culture. He is u. a. Author of a Russian - Tajik terminological dictionary of philosophy (Dushanbe, 1966), wrote about the emergence and development of philosophical thought (Dushanbe, 1970), about Avicenna and world culture (Journal The Peoples of Asia and Africa , 1980 № 5) and historical Progress of the Socialist Nations (Moscow, 1987).

Since 1945 he was a member of the CPSU and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan. 1946‒1952 he was deputy director of the Pedagogical Institute in Leninabad . 1956-1962 he was rector of the Polytechnic in Stalinabad , which was named after him posthumously in 1997. He was Minister of Education in the Government of Tajikistan in 1962 and President of the Tajik Academy of Sciences until his retirement in 1991. Since 1945 he was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

The promotion of the Persian language and literature was very important to him. He had a wealth of classical verses and proverbs in his mother tongue. He wrote works on Persian poets such as Hafiz , Jāmi and Bidil and was editor-in-chief of the Cyrillic edition of Firdausi's Schahname , which was published in 1987 in Dushanbe in nine volumes. In 1983 he received the International Nehru Prize for his contribution to friendship among peoples. In 1990 he founded the Payvand (Пайванд) Society, a cultural organization for scholarly relationships between Persian-speaking peoples, for which he was active until his death. He was shot dead by unknown persons on his way to work in Dushanbe on July 26, 1996, in the course of the Tadishik Civil War .

He was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor . For his participation in the German-Soviet war he received the medal "For the defense of Leningrad" and the medal "Victory over Germany" .

Publications (selection)

  • History of Civilizations of Central Asia , Vol. IV: The age of achievement: AD 750 to the end of the fifteenth century - Part One: The historical, social and economic setting (edited by Muhammad Seyfeydinovich Asimov and Clifford Edmund Bosworth), Paris 1998 ( General and Regional Histories )

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Habib Borjian: "ʿĀṢEMI, Moḥammad" (EIr)

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SURNAME Osimi, Muchammad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asimov, Muhammad Seyfeydinovich; Osimī, Muḩammad; Asimī, Muḩammad; ʿĀṣemi, Moḥammad; Осимӣ, Муҳаммад; Асимов, Мухамед Сайфитдинович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tajik philosopher and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Khujand
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1996
Place of death Dushanbe