Jaffery, Yunus, 1930-

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Name (Latin)
Jaffery, Yunus, 1930-
Name (Arabic)
جعفرى، يونس, 1930-
Other forms of name
Yunus Jaffery, 1930-
Jaffery, S. M. Yunus, 1930-
Jaʻfarī, Yūnus, 1930-
Jaʻfarī, Sayyid Muḥammad Yūnus, 1930-
Jaʻfarī, Muḥammad Yūnus, 1930-
Jafari, Syed Mohd. Yunus, 1930-
Jafari, Mohd. Yunus, 1930-
جعفرى، سيد محمد يونس, 1930-
Date of birth
1930
Associated Language
per eng hin urd
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 115358543
Wikidata: Q26761769
Library of congress: n 82083048
OCoLC: oca00779740
DLC: n 82083048
Sources of Information
  • History of Persian literature, 1981 (a.e.)pref. (S. M. Yunus Jaffery) pref. (S. M. Yunus Jafery) jkt. (Dr. Yunus Jaffery; M. A. (Persian) D. L. D. Litt., from Teheran Univ.)
  • Armaghān-i adabī, 1997:t.p. (Duktur Yūnus Jaʻfarī)
  • Mas̲navī-i Pādshāhʹnāmah, 2016:t.p. (Dukur Sayyid Muḥammad Yūnus Jaʻfarī) p. 11, etc (Dukur Yūnus Jaʻfarī; Ustād Jaʻfarī; Ustād ayyid Muḥammad Yūnus Jaʻfarī; Yūnus Jaʻfarī; b. 27 Siptāmbar 1930; d. 8 Shahrīvar mah-i 95/29 Ūt 2016) added t.p. (Late Dr. Syed Mohd. Yunus Jafari [in rom.]; Department of Persian, Zakir Husain College, University of Delhi)
Wikipedia description:

S.M. Yunus Jaffery (1930 – 29 August 2016) was an Indian scholar of the Persian language. He was from Delhi, India. He is mentioned in writer William Dalrymple’s 1994 book, City of Djinns. He was given the Farabi International Award, a literary prize, in 2006 by the Iran government for his work towards the Persian language. Jaffery had written short stories in Urdu and Hindi as well, apart from his work in Persian language. He had translated Hindu epic Ramayana to Persian, and edited, transcribed historical books like Shah Jehan Nama to clear Persian script. He was well versed with culture and norms of Mughal times, along with his Persian writing. He attended Delhi College (now Zakir Hussain College, Delhi University) for his graduate studies and later taught there. He had also studied Persian studies in University of Tehran in 1960s. In 1995, he retired from Zakir Hussain College, Delhi as dean of Persian studies. Jaffery died on 29 August 2016 in Delhi.

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