Background
Doctor Mahjoub was born in Tehran in 1924 and graduated from the prestigious Alborz High School in 1944.
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Doctor Mahjoub was born in Tehran in 1924 and graduated from the prestigious Alborz High School in 1944.
He obtained a second bachelor"s degree in 1954 and his Doctor of Philosophy in Persian literature from Tehran University in 1963.
He continued his affiliation with the Tudeh Party for some ten years, working in the press division and authoring unsigned editorials. He later severed all ties with the party and focused strictly on scholarly pursuits. His dissertation on the Khorasani style in Persian poetry was published as a book and is regarded as a standard text on the subject.
He taught Persian literature at the Teacher Training College (Tarbiat Moallem University), becoming full professor in 1968, and at Tehran University.
He was a visiting professor at Oxford University in the academic year 1971-1972, and a guest professor at the University of Strasbourg in 1972-1973. He was Iran"s cultural attaché to Pakistan from 1974 to 1979.
After the 1979 Iranian Revolution he was appointed as the head of Academy of Persian Language and Literature and the National Academy for the Arts, a post he held until 1980. in exile In 1980 Doctor Mahjoub left Iran for Paris, giving weekly lectures on Persian folk literature at the École Pierre Brossolette. He returned to the University of Strasbourg teaching there from 1982 to 1984 and was the president of the Persian Cultural Society in Paris from 1986 to 1993.
He later moved to the United States and began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 until his death from prostate cancer in 1996.
Works of Qa"ani Shirazi, 1957 Vis O Ramin, 1958 Works of Soroush Esfahani, 1960 Amir Arsalan, 1961 Complete Works of Iraj Mirza, 1962 Modalities of Truth (Tara-eq al-haqa-eq), 1966 Royal Book of Chivalry (Fotovat-nama-ye Soltani), 1971 Complete Works of Obeid Zakani, 1999.
He obtained his bachelor"s degree in political science from Tehran University in 1947. During this time he was employed as a stenographer at the Majlis, where he was recruited into the leftist Tudeh Party.