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  <name><![CDATA[عبدالحسین زرین کوب / Abdol-Hosain Zarrinkoub]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Abdolhossein Zarinkoob (in Persian: عبدالحسين زرين‌کوب, also spelled Zarrinkoub) was a prominent scholar of Iranian literature, history of literature, Persian culture and history.

He was born on March 19, 1923 in Borujerd, Iran, received his PhD from Tehran University in 1955 under the supervision of Badiozzaman Forouzanfar, and has held faculty positions at prestigious universities such as Oxford University, Sorbonne, and Princeton University, among many others.

Due to his pioneering works on Iranian literature, literary criticism and comparative literature, he is considered as the father of modern Persian literature.

He died September 15, 1999 in Tehran.
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