Career
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 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, Professor
Mohammad Parvin Gonabadi. Mehrdad Avesta
Parviz Natel Khanlari
Zabihollah Safa
Ehsan Yarshater
Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub
Amir Hossein Aryanpour
Mohammad-Amin Riahi
Simin Daneshvar
Mohammad-Reza Shafiei-Kadkani
Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nodooshan
Ja"far Shahidi
Seyfeddin Najmabadi
Jalal Matini
Mahmoud Neshat
William Chittick.
