Muhammadjon Shakuri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Muhammadjon Shakuri

Tajikistani writer

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Bukhara, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Uzbekistan

Date of Death: 16-Sep-2012

Profession: writer, literary

Nationality: Tajikistan

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Muhammadjon Shakuri (Tajik: ??????????? ??????, Persian: ??????? ??????; February, 1925, Bukhara – September 16, 2012, Dushanbe), also known as Muhammad Sharifovich Shukurov, was a prominent Tajik intellectual and one of the notable literary figures of the Persian language of the 20th century.
From the late 1980s, during glasnost, he cultivated an interest in the theory of modern Tajik culture, and he published copiously on the issues of the history and contemporary conditions of Tajik language, literature, and culture during the independence period after 1991.Among his main works is a Tajiki-Persian dictionary.
He also had a significant role in preserving Tajik identity.