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'''Muhammadjon Shakuri''' ({{lang-tg|Муҳаммадҷон Шакурӣ}}, {{lang-fa|محمدجان شکوری}}; February, 1925, in [[Bukhara]] – September 16, 2012, in [[Dushanbe]]), also known as '''Muhammad Sharifovich Shukurov''', was a prominent [[Tājik people|Tajik]] intellectual and one of the notable [[Persian literature|literary figures of the Persian language]] of the 20th century.<ref name=tj>{{cite web |url=http://news.tj/en/news/academician-muhammadjon-shakuri-dies |title=Academician Muhammadjon Shakuri dies &#124; Tajikistan News-NA "Asia-Plus" |publisher=News.tj |date= |accessdate=2012-09-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203194427/http://news.tj/en/news/academician-muhammadjon-shakuri-dies |archive-date=2016-02-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> From the late 1980s, during [[glasnost]], he cultivated an interest in the theory of modern Tajik culture, and he published copiously on the issues of the history and contemporary conditions of the Tajik language, literature, and culture during the independence period after 1991.<ref>E.Evelin Grassi and H.[[Habib Borjian]], "ŠOKUROV, MOḤAMMADJĀN" http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/shokurov-mohammadjan</ref>

*Iraj Bashiri, [httphttps://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/TajikFigures/TajikFigures.pdf ''Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century''], International Borbad Foundation, Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 2003.

*[https://archive.istoday/20130420023630/http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/tajikistan/story/2005/04/050421_v-tajik-culture-ar-shakouri.shtml Tajikistan's national scholar: Mohammad Shakouri]