Badiozzaman Forouzanfar or Badi'ozzamān Forūzānfar (Persian: بدیع‌الزمان فروزانفر, also Romanized as "Badiʿ al-Zamān Furūzānfar"; born 12 July 1904[1] in Boshrooyeh, Ferdows County – died 6 May 1970 in Tehran, born Ziyaa' Boshrooye-i ضياء بشرويه‌ای) was a scholar of Persian literature, Iranian linguistics and culture, and an expert on Rumi (Molana Jalaleddin Balkhi) and his works.

He was a distinguished professor of literature at Tehran University.

He is one of the "Five-Masters (Panj Ostād), five influential scholars of Persian literature, the others being Malekoshoara Bahar, Jalal Homaei, Abdolazim Gharib and Rashid Yasemi.

His Ahadith-i Mathnawi is a compilation of hadith from Rumi's Masnavi.

[4] He was also a first cousin (maternal) of another famous Iranian scholar of literature, Professor Mohammad Parvin Gonabadi.