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Parviz Natel-Khanlari
Minister of Culture
In office 1 August 1962 – 7 March 1964
Prime Minister	Asadollah Alam
Preceded by	Mohammad Derakhshesh
Succeeded by	Abdullali Jahanshahi
Senator from Mazandaran
In office 11 March 1964 – 11 February 1979
Appointed by	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Personal details
Born	20 March 1914 Tehran, Qajar Iran
Died	23 August 1990(1990-08-23) (aged 76) Tehran, Iran
Resting place	Behesht-e Zahra
Party	Independent
Spouse	Zahra Kia
Children	2
Alma mater	St. Louis School Tehran American School Dar ul-Funun Supreme University University of Tehran

Parviz Natel Khanlari (Persian: پرویز ناتل خانلری; 20 March 1914 – 23 August 1990) was an Iranian literary scholar, linguist, author, researcher, politician, and professor at the University of Tehran.

Biography

Parviz Natel Khanlari graduated from the University of Tehran in 1943 with a doctorate degree in Persian literature, and began his academic career in the faculty of arts and letters. He also studied linguistics at the University of Paris for two years. From then on, Khanlari founded a new course named history of Persian language in the University of Tehran.

Apart from his academic career which continued until the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Khanlari held numerous administrative positions in Iran from the 1960s through the late 1970s.

Parviz Natel Khanlari was the founder and editor of Sokhan magazine, a leading literary journal with wide circulation among Iraninan intellectuals and literary scholars from the early 1940s to 1978.

See also

• Persian literature
• Iranian Studies

Bibliography

• Milani, Abbas (2008). Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941–1979. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815609070.

Further reading

• Parviz Natel-Khanlari, editor, Divān-e Hāfez, Vol. 1, The Lyrics (Ghazals) (Tehran, Iran, 1362 AH/1983-4). This work has been translated by Peter Avery, The Collected Lyrics of Hafiz of Shiraz, 603 pp. (Archetype, Cambridge, UK, 2007). ISBN 1-901383-09-1
• ʿAbd-al-Ḥosayn Āḏarang and EIr, “KHANLARI, PARVIZ,” Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, 2016

External links

• Javād Es'hāghiān, Doctor Khanlari: A wave that did not rest (Doctor Khānlari: Mouji ke nayāsood), in Persian, Āti-Bān, 2008, .
  Note: The subtitle of this article is a paraphrase of a couplet from a long Persian poem by Mohammad Iqbal (better known in Iran as Eqbāl-e Lāhourí).