Muhammadjon Shakuri

Muhammadjon Shakuri ({{langx|tg|Муҳаммадҷон Шакурӣ}}, {{langx|fa|محمدجان شکوری}}; February 1925, in Bukhara – September 16, 2012, in Dushanbe), also known as Muhammad Sharifovich Shukurov, was a prominent Tajik intellectual and one of the notable literary figures of the Persian language of the 20th century.{{cite web |url=http://news.tj/en/news/academician-muhammadjon-shakuri-dies |title=Academician Muhammadjon Shakuri dies | 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 }} 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.Evelin Grassi and Habib Borjian, "ŠOKUROV, MOḤAMMADJĀN" http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/shokurov-mohammadjan

Among his main works is a Tajiki-Persian dictionary. He also had a significant role in preserving Tajik identity.