Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub (Borujerd, 1923 - Tehran, 1999) was Iranian scholar and professor and distinguished connoisseur of Iranian literature, history of literature, Persian culture and history. He received his doctorate at University of Tehran in 1955, and taught at many prestigious world universities. universities, including Oxford, the Sorbonne, and Princeton. Because of their pioneering works on Iranian literature, literary criticism, and comparative of literature is considered the father of modern Persian literature. The Zarrinkoubs research works made him an Iranian of world renown and undisputed a master of Persian literature and poetry. In addition to hundreds of published articles, he is the author of numerous books in Persian, French and English.