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Rahim Elham

Died in 2013

Rahim Elham was born in Chahardeh, near Kabul, the son of Fazl-ud-Din, and received his first religious lessons from an uncle. A graduate of the faculty of language and literature in Kabul, he became an assistant there, earned a master's degree in linguistics in the United States, then a doctorate in Tajikistan, and headed the Dari department and the institute of linguistics. A refugee in Peshawar during the wars, he was expelled from it, settled in Arizona and rests in Kabul in accordance with his wishes.

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