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Ali Mohammad Haghshenas

Iranian linguist and translator (1940–2010)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ5954847 ↗
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Ali Mohammad Haghshenas (May 4, 1940 – April 30, 2010) was an Iranian linguist and emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of Tehran. He was a winner of Iran's Book of the Year Award.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ali Mohammad Haghshenas” as iranian linguist and translator (1940–2010). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1940-05-04. The account is most persuasive where Mohammad, Haghshenas and Iranian can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5954847. VIAF identifies the subject as 70442561. The Library of Congress control number is n87140446. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1940 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ali Mohammad Haghshenas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.