Rehana Khatoon was born on 30 August 1948 and is an Indian scholar, teacher of Persian language, former Head of the Department of Persian, University of Delhi and the author of Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature.
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Rehana Khatoon was honoured by the Government of India, in 2014, with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for her contributions to the propagation of Persian language and literature.
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Rehana Khatoon is the first woman alumni of the Aligarh Muslim University to be awarded the Padma Shri.
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Prof Rehana Khatoon is undoubtedly the world's foremost expert on Arzu, and I hope to work primarily with her on Indo-Persian Philosophy and the politics of vernacular culture, wrote Dr Arthur Dudney, Columbia University, USA, an expert on Siraj-ud-Din Ali Khan Arzu, the famous poet-scholar.
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Rehana Khatoon was born on 30 August 1948, in Aligarh, in Uttar Pradesh, India to Late Professor Emeritus Nazir Ahmed, a renowned scholar of the Persian language and Padma Shri award winner.
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Rehana Khatoon kept herself abreast with the developments in the Persian language by regularly attending refresher courses.
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Rehana Khatoon attended a two-month-long course organized by Bunyad-i-Farhang-i-Iran, Tehran, in 1978 and a four-month course by University of Isfahan, Iran, in 1995.
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Rehana Khatoon attended the course conducted by the Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia and has attended 18 courses by the Iran Cultural Centre, New Delhi during the period from 1986 to 2006.
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Apart from working as the Head of the Department of Persian Language, University of Delhi, Rehana Khatoon has served as the Deputy Coordicator of the DRS Programme of the University Grants Commission and as a Member, Library Sub Committee - Ghalib Institute - 2014 She has been the Vice President of the Scholar Association, New Delhi and was the Visiting Fellow at Aligarh Muslim University in 2007 and 2008.
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Rehana Khatoon has served as the member of organizations of forums such as Ghalib Institute, Amir Khusro Society, Encyclopedia of Persian of the Subcontinent and Anjuman Tarriqi Urdu.
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Rehana Khatoon was awarded the Padma Shri, in 2014, twenty seven years after her father, the 1987 Padma Shri award winner, Professor Nazir Ahmed was honoured by the Government of India.
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Rehana Khatoon is credited with several books, over 30 in number, on topics such as lexicography, comparative philology and Persian language and literature.
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Rehana Khatoon has written a source book by name, Delhi: Past and Present: Focus on Persian Sources Some of her notable works are:.
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Books apart, Rehana Khatoon is credited with several published articles on topics related to the Persian language.