Contemporary Persian literary criticism reached its maturity after Sadeq Hedayat, Ebrahim Golestan, Houshang Golshiri, Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub and Shahrokh Meskoob. Among these figures, Zarrinkoub held academic positions and had a reputation not only among the intelligentsia but also in academia. Besides his significant contribution to the maturity of Persian language and literature, Zarrinkoub boosted comparative literature and Persian literary criticism. Zarrinkoub's "Serr e Ney" is a critical and comparative analysis of Rumi's "Masnavi". In turn, Shahrokh Meskoob worked on Ferdowsi's "Shahnameh", using the principles of modern literary criticism.