Muqadamma Ashrafi
{{Short description|Tajikistani medievalist and art historian (1936–2013)}}{{Infobox academic
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| birth_place = Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
| parents = Mukhtar Ashrafi
| alma_mater = Moscow State University {{Small|(MA, cand.)}}
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| discipline = Art historian
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Muqaddama Ashrafi ({{langx|tg|Муқаддима Ашрафӣ}}; July 5, 1936{{Cite book |last=Bashiri |first=Iraj |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9bPCSAAACAAJ |title=Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century |date=2002 |publisher=International Borbad Foundation |location=Dushanbe, Tajikistan |pages=35 |language=en}} – June 29, 2013) was a Tajik medievalist and art historian.
Biography
Ashrafi was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR into an ethnic Tajik family.{{cite book|author1=Kamoludin Abdullaev|author2=Shahram Akbarzaheh|title=Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PB5xgFRuYPUC|date=27 April 2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7379-7}} Her father was the noted composer Mukhtar Ashrafi.{{Cite web |date=2013-07-02 |title=Из жизни ушла М. Ашрафи, открывшая миру красоту средневековой таджикской миниатюры |trans-title=M. Ashrafi, who revealed to the world the beauty of medieval Tajik miniatures, has passed away |url=https://asiaplustj.info/ru/news/life/person/20130702/iz-zhizni-ushla-m-ashrafi-otkryvshaya-miru-krasotu-srednevekovoi-tadzhikskoi-miniatyury |access-date=2023-08-04 |website=ASIA-plus}} She graduated from the Taskhent Musical School in 1954; in 1959 she received a degree in art history from the Moscow State University. From that year until 1961 she worked in the Oriental Studies Department of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow; beginning in 1962 she was a postgraduate student at that institution's Institute of Oriental Studies, graduating in 1968. From 1969 until 1971 she was employed at the Tajik Academy of Sciences in the Department of Philosophy. She earned a Candidate of Art History (equivalent to a PhD) in 1972.{{Cite web |title=Ашрафи, Мукаддима Мухтаровна - Очерки миниатюрной живописи сефевидского Ирана XVI века : по рукописям произведений Джами из современных собраний : диссертация ... кандидата искусствоведения |trans-title=Ashrafi, Mukaddima Mukhtarovna - Essays on miniature painting of Safavid Iran of the 16th century: based on manuscripts of Jami's works from modern collections: dissertation ... candidate of art history |url=https://search.rsl.ru/ru/record/01009973051 |access-date=2023-08-04 |website=Russian State Library |language=ru-RU}} The same year, she moved to the Tajik Academy of Sciences Institute of History, and became chair of the humanities department at the Tajik Technological University. In 1986, Ashrafi earned a Doctor of Arts degree (similar to a habilitation). As a scholar, Ashrafi specialized in the medieval arts—especially painting—of Central Asia. She was married to the writer Kamol Ayni. At the time of her death she was at work on the last volume of a planned trilogy on the subject of Tajik miniature painting, having already published the first two volumes in 2011.
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