The museum is actually Qarib’s office in the academy where she was a permanent member and includes a number of her awards, family photos, letters and memorabilia. Her personal library, which is home ...

Qarib was a permanent member of the academy and famous for her research work on a dictionary of the Sogdian language. In a message published on Tuesday, the director of the academy, Gholam-Ali ...

The name of the Sogdiana, the region around Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and of its people, the Sogdians, has been known since antiquity. In the west, Sogdiana became familiar ...

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Dr. Qarib said the compilation of those dialects on the verge of extinction would be the first priority. The plan of Sogdian grammar was ratified by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature.