Mohammad Moin was a prominent Iranian scholar of Persian literature and Iranian Studies.
Mohammad Moin studied at the Higher Institute of Science in
Tehran and obtained his BA in literature and philosophy in 1934. He subsequently went to
Belgium and graduated in applied psychology, anthropology and cognitive science under Elmer Knowles.
On returning to
Iran he carried out his doctoral research under Ebrahim Pourdavoud at the University of
Tehran, culminating in a thesis with the title "Mazdayasna and its Influence on Persian Literature" for which he received a PhD with honours in Persian literature and linguistics.
He is the first doctoral graduate in Persian literature from the University of
Tehran.
He was later appointed full professor at University of
Tehran, from which position he was subsequently promoted as Distinguished Professor to the Chair of Literary Criticism and Research in Literary Texts at the same university.
He is best known for his famous Moin Dictionary
...see more as well as his contributions to The Dehkhoda Dictionary, a work he did in collaboration with Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda himself.
Moin was President of the literature commission of the International Congress of Iranian Studies and Director of the Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute.
Mohammad Moin died in 1971 in Tehran. He is buried in Astaneh Ashrafiyeh, Gilan, Iran.
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Moin
