Muqadamma Ashrafi
Muqaddama Ashrafi (June 5, 1936 – June 29, 2013) was a Tajikistani medievalist and art historian.
Biography[]
Ashrafi was born in Tashkent into an ethnic Tajik family.[1] Her father was the noted composer Mukhtar Ashrafi.[2] She graduated from the Taskhent Musical School in 1954; in 1959 she received a degree in art history from the Moscow State University. From that year until 1961 she worked in the Oriental Studies Department of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow; beginning in 1962 she was a postgraduate student at that institution's Institute of Oriental Studies, graduating in 1968. From 1969 until 1971 she was employed at the Tajik Academy of Sciences in the Department of Philosophy; in 1972 she moved to the organization's Institute of History. That same year saw the beginning of her chairmanship of the humanities department at the Tajik Technological University. As a scholar, Ashrafi took as her specialties the medieval arts, especially painting, of Central Asia. She was married to the writer .[1] At the time of her death she was at work on the last volume of a planned trilogy on the subject of Tajik miniature painting, having already published the first two volumes in 2011.[2]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Kamoludin Abdullaev; Shahram Akbarzaheh (27 April 2010). Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7379-7.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Из жизни ушла М. Ашрафи, открывшая миру красоту средневековой таджикской миниатюры - Новости Таджикистана ASIA-Plus". ASIA-Plus. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
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