- Tahereh Saffarzadeh
Tahereh Saffarzadeh (PerB| طاهره صفارزاده , born
1936 inSirjan ,Kerman Province ,Iran ) is anIran ian poet, writer, translator and prominent university professor. [ [http://mwawomenmakinghistory.blogspot.com/2006/04/tahereh-saffarzadeh.html
Muslimah Writers Alliance
Muslim Women Making History
: Tahereh Saffarzadeh ] ]Biography
tudies
She received her BA in English language and literature in
1960 . Several years later she left Iran forEngland and then to theUnited States . Upon being accepted as a member ofInternational Writing Program , she also enrolled for M. F. A program which is essentially designed so as to enable the writers, the poets, the painters etc., to teach their respective fields of art both in practical workshops and theoretical courses, at university level. For her degree she studied major contemporary world literature with a special focus on practical literary criticism and translation workshops. [ [http://www.taherehsaffarzadeh.ir/eng/news.htm Saffarzade's website] ]Works
Saffarzadeh has so far published fourteen volumes of poems and she is also the author of ten books on the principles of translation regarding literary, scientific and Qur'ānic texts respectively.
In regards to effectiveness of science of translation, Saffarzadeh has presented several theories of which "the Scientific Progression via Translation" has been regarded the most notable one. In the book "Translating the Fundamental Meanings of the Holy Qur'an" (1999) which is a genuine research on the English and Persian Translations of Qur'ān, she has succeeded in finding the main flaws and shortcomings; and by depiction of those defects she has introduced a new gate of approach in finding equivalents in the domain of translation of the Holy Qur'ān the effect of which has appeared as this remarkable conceptual translation. [ [http://www.taherehsaffarzadeh.ir/eng/news.htm Saffarzade's website] ] She's published her bilingual translation of
Qur'an in Persian and English2001 , which is the first bilingual translation ofQur'an .Prominent woman of Islamic world
She was chosen by "
Organization of Afro-Asian Writers " in2005 and According toEgypt 's "Culture and Information Minister"Muhammad Majdi Marjan who heads the Organization [ [http://mwawomenmakinghistory.blogspot.com/2006/04/tahereh-saffarzadeh.html
Muslimah Writers Alliance
Muslim Women Making History
: Tahereh Saffarzadeh ] ] :The letter reads in part,"In a bid to commemorate the leading and elite women of letters we have chosen the internationally renowned Iranian poetess Tahereh Saffarzadeh, with whose long history of struggles the entire Islamic
Ummah is familiar, as the leading woman in the Islamic world and at the international scene of 2005."According to
Organization of Afro-Asian Writers [ [http://www.taherehsaffarzadeh.ir/eng/news.htm Taherehsaffarzadeh.ir ] ] :Tahereh Saffarzadeh the great Iranian committed poetess and writer is an exalted example for the muslim believing women, that all muslims honour her status and due to her political fighting background, and her profound knowledge, this year she was elected to be celebrated by this organization.
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* [http://www.taherehsaffarzadeh.ir Official website]
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