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Professor Aida Gasimova


Work telephone: + (994)12 439-07-34
e-mail: Aida_shahlar@mail.ru

 

PERSONAL DATA

  • Date of Birth: 2 June 1957
  • 1975-1980 studied at the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Baku State University
  • From 1980 held different positions in the same Faculty

 

EDUCATION & AKADEMIC DEGREES OBTAINED

  • 2001, Doctor in Philology, Institute of Literature, The Qur’anic Stories as an Ideological-Artistic Source of Medieval Azerbaijani Literature Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • 1989, PhD in Philology, Emergence of The Medieval Arabian Short Picaresque Stories Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, Academy of Sciences of USSR
  • B.A. and M.A. in Arabic and Azerbaijani Philology, Baku State University, Department of Oriental Studies

 

COMPLETE PROFESSIONAL BACKROUND

  • 2005 till present, Professor, Department of Arabic Philology, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Baku State University
  • 1995-2005, docent, Department of Arabic Philology, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Baku State University
  • 1987-1995, Lecturer, Department of Arabic Philology, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Baku State University
  • 1983-1987, Post-Graduate Student of Advanced Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Baku State University
  • 1980-1983 Assistant, Department of Arabic Philology, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Baku State University
  • Expert in Arabic Philology The Supreme Attestation Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan. January 2009
  • Prize in the competition held by the Committee of Asian Muslims for the Commonwealth countries
  • Cources: Arabic Literature, Arabic Language, Arabic Sufi Literature,The History of Arabic Literary Criticism etc.
  • Author of 5 monographs and more than 90 articles in these fields

 

PRESENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Arabic Literature, Qur’anic Studies, Azerbaijani Literature, Mental-Spiritual State in pre-Islamic Arabia

 

INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS, SIMPOSIUMS AND CONFERENCES

  • 10-11 October, 2013, “Marginal Discourses of Arabic Poetry, A Case Study of the Baku Manuscript “Taj al-Lughah wa-Sihah al-Arabiyyah” by Abu Nasr Ismail ibn Hammad al-Farabi al-Jawhari”, Autograp/holograph and Authorial Manuscripts in Arabic Script, University of Liege, (Belgium)
  • 12-14 July, 2011, “Some Chefs-d'oeuvre of  Azerbaijani Institute of Manuscripts Library” 7th Islamic Manuscript Conference: “Islamic Manuscripts in South and Southeast Asia”, Cambridge University, UK
  • 16-17 April, 2010, “The Azerbaijani Contribution to the Classical Arabic Literary Tradition (With Special Reference to Sufi Literature)” Conceptualizing Literary History: Foundations of Arabic Literature Yale University, USA
  • 5-7 July, 2010, “Worships, beliefs and traditions connected  with fire in pre-Islamic Arabia and Zoroastrianism” ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies – 28th International Conference: Zoroastrianism in the Levant Oxford University, UK
  • 1-4 April, 2009, Mirror Images, USA, Villanova University
  • 8-12 Dec.2008, From Asiatic Museum to the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, St-Petersburg
  • May 2008, Inernational Conference “Modern Approaches towards teaching Arabic Language to non-Arabs”, Baku, Qafqaz University
  • June 2008, Qur’anic Frameworks for Society: Islam, Multiculturalism, Pluralism and Peace, London 16-17
  • 8-12 Dec.2008, From Asiatic Museum to the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, St-Petersburg
  • June 2008, Qur’anic Frameworks for Society: Islam, Multiculturalism, Pluralism and Peace, London 16-17

 

AWARDS

  • Global Faculty Award of Open Society Foundations’, 2013
  • “The Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain’s prize for Imam Al-Bukhari’s Grandchildren,” 1998

 

Membership in Professional Organization

  • Member, The Islamic Manuscript Association
  • Member of the Advisory broad of the Journal “Ibn Rushd”
  • Member of the Editorial board of the Journal “Qafqaz” (Qafqaz University)


LIST OF SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

In English

  • “The Sabians as one of the Religious Groups in pre-Islamic Arabia and Their Definition through the Qur'an and Medieval Arab Sources”, ARAM Periodical, (Oxford University),  (Issue 22,  2010) pp. 243-261.
  • “Acquaintance with the Mystery of Heavens in Ancient Arabia”, Written Monuments of the Orient (Pismennie Pamyatniki Vostoka), St-Petersburg, (2010, July), 14/1, pp 55-65.
  • “Eyebrows” in Islamic Images and Ideas, Essays on  Sacred Symbolism, ed. by Dr. John Andrew  Morrow, USA  McFarland, 2013, pp. 169-183.
  • “The Hair on my Head is Shining, Qur’anic Imagery of the Curl in Classical Azeri-Turkic Sufi Poetry”, Journal of Qur’anic Studies, 15.1 (2013), Edinburgh University Press, Centre of Islamic Studies, pp.67-99.
  • “Models, Portraits and Signs of Fate in Ancient Arabic Tradition”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, (2014, October), 73/ 2, pp. 319-340.
  • “If All the Trees on Earth Were Pens: A Survey of the Qur’anic Symbolism of the Pen in Medieval Azeri Turkic Sufi Poetry”, Journal of Turkish Literature, 11/2014, pp. 7-33.
  • “Marginal Discourses of Arabic Poetry, A Case Study of the Baku Manuscript, “Taj al-Lughah wa-Sihah al-Arabiyyah” by Abu Nasr Ismail ibn Hammad al-Farabi al-Jawhari”, Journal of Arabic Literature, 46/2015, issue 1, pp. 1-33.
  • “Red Terror against Islamic Manuscripts: The Case of the Manuscript Collection of Salman Mumtaz”, Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, Brill, Leiden, 6/ 2015, pp. 17-46.
  • “Qur’anic Symbolism of the Eyes in Classical Azeri Turkic Poetry”, Oriens, 43 / 2015, issue 1-2, pp. 101-153.
  • “Traditional Qur’anic images in Depiction of the Curl in Classical Azeri Turkic Sufi Poetry (Rope, Shackles, and Thread)” Proceeding of the International Conference in 75 anniversary of Professor Aida Imanquliyeva, Baku, 2014, pp. 180-184

In Modern Standard Arabic

  • “Beyn ‘l-haqaiq wa ‘l-akadhib fi laqab al-Mutanabbi”, (Between Truth and Inventions on the nickname of al-Mutanabbi), al- Bayan, Literary Journal Issued by Kuwait Writers Association, Al-Kuwait, Nov, 2002 (388) pp. 41-49
  • “Al-makhtutat al-arabiyya fi Baku”, (Arabic Manuscripts in Baku), al-Faisal, Monthly Cultural Journal Published by Al Faisal Cultural House, Riyadh, 2003. (323) pp. 50-69.
  • “Al-ma‘ani al-qur’aniyya fi ‘l-sh‘ir al-klassikiyyi al-adharbayjaniyyi”, (Qur’anic Images in the Classical Azerbaijani Literature),Al-Adab al- Islami, Journal Published by Universal League of Islamic Literature, Riyadh, 2003 (37) pp. 78-83.
  • “Min al-rumuz al-makhfiyya ila al-hawadith al-waqi‘yiyya: Ta’ammulat haula al-Mahzala al-Mamlukiyya li Fikri Naqqash”, (Hidden Symbols and Real Events, Contemplations on Fikry Naqqash’s “Mamluk Comedy”) Al Saqafa al- Jadida, Monthly Journal Published by Cultural Houses in Cairo, February 2004 (126), pp. 29-34.
  • “Dahaya al-irhab al-ahmar”, (Victims of Red Terror) al- Faisal, Monthly Cultural Journal Published by Al Faisal Cultural House, Riyadh, 2005 (341) pp. 44-63.
  • “Ma’sat Ziyad ibn Abihi min khilal al-tarikh and saykolojiya” Ibda‘ (Tragedy “Ziyad ibn Abih” within the Scope of History and Psychology, Quarterly Journal of Literature and Arts, Cairo, 2007, IV, pp.164-170.
  • “Nahda al-Islam wa ‘l-zuruf al-muwakab laha”, (Islamic Renaissance and its Milieu), Ibn Rushd, Refereed Journal of the Ibn Rushd Institute, Netherlands, 2011, 3, pp. 42-67

in Russian

  • “Мифопоэтика доисламской поэзии” (Mythopoeical dimensions of pre-Islamic Poetry), The Studies in Eastern Philology, Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, Baku, 2007, pp. 3-64.
  • “Оккультные науки и ясновидение в древней Аравии” (Occult Sciences and Clairvoyance in Ancient Arabia), The Studies in Eastern Philology,   Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, Baku, 2010 (5), pp. 5-30.
  • “Мистика жертвоприношения в древней Аравии” (Mysticism of the Ceremony of Sacrifice in Ancient Arabia), Vostochnaya Kollekciya” Moscow, 2010,  4, pp. 79-84.
  • Антропогоническое мышление в доисламской арабской поэзии “Anthropogonical Notions in Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry”, Journal Chetki , published by  Marjani foundation, Moscow, 2010, 4, pp. 135-142.
  • “Предтечи макамного жанра в арабской литературе )в свете изучения средневековых арабских источников(”, (Prerequisites of the genre “Maqama in Arabic Literature; a Survey of Medieval Arabic Sources),  Dil ve Edebiyat, Baku, State University, 91/2014, issue 3, pp.134-139.

 

In Azeri-Turkic

  • “Badi al- Zaman al-Hamadani’s Contribution to the Rise of Arabic Prose”, in The Literary Relations between Azerbaijan and Middle  Eastern Countries, Baku State University, 1985, pp. 68-80.
  • “Badi a- Zaman al- Hamadani: The Founder of Genre Maqama in Arabic Literature” in Methodological Problems of Teaching of the Eastern Languages and Literatures, Baku State University, 1986, pp.51-57.
  • “The Topics Connected with Azerbaijan in Maqamat” in The Problems of Comparative Literatures of Near Eastern Nations, Baku State University,1990, pp.32-41.
  • “The Queen of Sheba in the Qur’an and Bible”, The Actual Problems of the Theory and Methodology of Teaching of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Proceedings of Rep. Scholarly-Methodological Conference, Baku State University, 1993, pp. 22-25.
  • “Nahj al-Balaghah,(The Road of Eloquence) of Ali ibn Abi Talib” - The  Actual Problems of The Theory and  Methodology of  Teaching of Near Eastern Languages  and Literatures, Baku State University, 1993. pp. 94-96.
  • “Qur’anic Stories in the Poetry of Fuduli (The Story of Handsome Yusuf)”, Proceedings of the Scholarly Conference, Baku State University, 1994, pp.98-99.
  • “Impact of the Legends about Ascension of the Prophet Muhammad on the Poetry of Nasimi”, Language and Literature, Theoretical and Methodological Journal of Baku State University, 1997 (1/16) pp. 72-75.
  • “Qur’anic Reminiscences in the Poetry of Kadi Burhanuddin” , Language and Literature, Theoretical and Methodological Journal of Baku State University, 1997 (1/16) pp. 71-72.
  • “Artistic Images Connected with Shaqq al Qamar”- Language and Literature, Theoretical and Methodological Journal of Baku State University, 1997 (3/18)p. 139-140.
  • “Qur’anic Stories as an Artistic and Ideological Source of Shah Ismail Khatai’s Poetry”, (The Story  of Solomon)”,  Language and Literature, Theoretical and methodological Journal of Baku State University, 1997 (3/18) p.137-138.
  • “Symbolical Images and Topics Related to Qur’anic Stories in the Poetry of Nasimi, (The Story of Nuh and Deluge)”, The Humanities and Social-Political Sciences,  Baku State University, 1998, p.246-249.
  • “Azerbaijani Classical Poetry and Qur’anic Stories”, Jahan, Literary, Scholarly, and Social Journal, Baku 1998 (5) pp. 76-85.
  • “Artistic Depiction of Beauty in the Medieval Poetry, (Symbolical Images of the Mole)” , Language and Literature, Theoretical and Methodological Baku State University, pp. 486-487.
  • “The Prophet of Poets – al-Mutanabbi”,  Language and Literature, Theoretical and methodological Journal of Baku State University, 1999 (1/23) pp. 97-100.
  • “Accounts about the Death of the Eminent Arab Poet al-Mutanabbi”, The Proceedings of the Scholarly Conference,  Baku State University, Baku 1999 pp. 486-487.
  • “Qur’anic Reminiscences in Azerbaijan Classical Literature”, Islamic Civilization in the Caucasus, Proceedings of the International symposium, Istanbul 2000, pp.116-124.
  • “Jesus Christ –The Physician”, Language and Literature, Theoretical and methodological Journal of Baku State University, 2000 (2/27), pp.145-150.
  • “The Day of Judgment in the Qur’an”, Language and Literature, Theoretical and Methodological Journal of Baku State University, 2000 (2/28), pp.131-132.
  • “Islam and Poetry”, al- Nida, Literary and Scholarly Journal, Baku, 2000, (4/10), pp. 29-30.
  • “The Rarely Used Qur’anic Reminiscences in Azerbaijani Classical Literature” , The Humanities and Social-Political Sciences,  Baku State University, 2000. (2) pp. 117-126.
  • 106-109.
  • “Hatam al-Tai–The Historical Person and His Symbolical Image”, Scholarly Researches, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literature. Baku, 2000,(3-4), pp. 32-35.
  • “Qur’anic Stories and Symbolical Images”, Ulduz, Journal of Azerbaijani  Writers Association 2000,(1) pp. 78-83.
  • 194-199.
  • “Mental Spiritual State of Arabs in Pre-Islamic Period: Scientific knowledge and Peculiarities of its Development”,  The Humanities and Social-Political Sciences,  Baku State University, 2001, (1) pp. 145-150.
  • “The Poetry of Abu Nuwas”, Chiraq, Literary, Scolarly, Social Journal, 2001 (1-2) pp.43-48.
  • 30-35.
  • “Arabic-Islamic Renaissance of the X century”, (article II) Scholarly Researches, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literature Baku 2002. (3-4), pp.16-18.
  • “Controversial  Opinions  About  the  Prophet Idris (Enoch)”, Philological issues, Azerbaijan  National  Academy of Sciences,  Institute  of Literature, Baku 2002,(1) pp. 50-55.
  • “A Valuable Source of Azerbaijan Culture. (Lisan al-Mizan by Ibn Hajar al-Askilani)” , Philological Issues, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences,   Institute of Literature, Baku 2002.(3) pp. 14-19.
  • “The First Primary Sources of the World Eschatology: The Book of Enoch”, Actual Problems of Oriental Studies, Proceedings of the Rep. Conference, Baku State University, 2002. pp. 39-41.
  • “The Mystical Journey of the Patriarch: Some Religious Legends About Abraham’s Ascension”, Scholarly Researches, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, Baku 2002. (3-4), pp. 215-221.
  • “The Mysterious Biography of Jesus Christ in Christian and Islamic Sources”, (Article I), The Humanities and Social-Political Sciences, Baku State University, 2003. (3). pp. 286-295.
  • “The Mysterious Biography of Jesus Christ in Christian and Islamic Sources”, (Article II), The Humanities and Social-Political Sciences,  Baku State University, 2003(4), pp.252-262.
  • “Religious Beliefs of Pre-Islamic Arabs: Idolatry”, Scholarly Researches, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, Baku 2003(1-2), pp. 264-269.
  • “Monotheistic Tendencies in the Religious Thought of Pre-Islamic Arabs: Christianity”, Scholarly Researches, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies. Baku 2003. (1-2). pp. 269-274.
  • “Apocryphal Legends about Ascension of the Prophet Moses”, The Actual Problems of Oriental Studies, The Proceedings of Republican Conference. Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, Baku 2003 pp. 302-304.
  • “Religious Thought of Pre-Islamic Arabs; The Sabians”, Hikmet, Journal of Scholarly Researches, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, Baku 2004, (1) pp. 107-116.
  • “The Tragedy of The Last Sultan of Fikri  Naqqash”, Philological Issues, Azerbaijan  National  Academy of Sciences,   Institute  of Literature. Baku 2004, (1), pp.9-14.
  • “Mystic Groups in pre-Islamic Society: Priests and Clairvoyants”, Scholarly Researches, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, Baku 2004, (1-2). pp. 297-303.
  • “Superstitious Outlooks, Beliefs and Customs of  Pre-Islamic Arabs”, Scholarly Researches, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies Baku 2004, (1-2).pp.8-12.
  • “Tauq al- Hamama by  Ibn Hazm”, Proceedings  of Conference Dedicated to 80 years Anniversary of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Baku State University, Baku State University, 2004, pp.76-78.
  • “Religious Thought of pre-Islamic Arabs: Judaism”, Scholarly Researches, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. Institute of Oriental Studies, Baku 2004, (3-4) pp.186-194.
  • “The Prophet Ilyas (Elijah) –A Mythic-Poetical Figure and His Depiction in Religious Sources”,  Hikmet, Journal of Scholarly Researches, Azerbaijan  National  Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental  Studies, Baku, 2004 (2) pp.111-117.
  • “Regard of Pre-Islamic Arabs for Poets and Orators”, The Studies in Eastern Philology,  Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences,  Institute of Oriental Studies, Baku 2005 pp.11-31.
  • “Pre- Islamic Arabs and Zoroastrianism: Worships, Superstitions and Devotions Connected with Fire”, Hikmet, Journal of Scholarly Researches, Azerbaijan  National  Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, Baku, 2005, pp.85-100.
  • “The Term Jahiliyya in the Quran and its Interpretation through Tafsir Books”, The Studies in Eastern Philology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, Baku, 2006, pp.7-22.
  • 509-513.
  • “Religious Thought of Pre-Islamic Arabs: Hanifs and Hanifism”, (article II)  (The Ideological Background of Hanifism), Scholarly Researches, Institute of Oriental Studies, Baku, 2006, pp. 514-519.
  • “The Mysticism of Writing in the Mythopoiesis of Jahiliyya Poetry”, Journal  Khata’i, Azerbaijan  National  Academy of Sciences, Institute of  Philosophy, Baku 2007, pp. 45-49.
  • “Mysticism in the Religious- Cultural System of Pre-Islamic Arabs”, Journal  Khata’i, Azerbaijan  National  Academy of Sciences, Institute of  Philosophy, 2009, I, pp.72-77.
  • “Symbolism of the Archetype of Cave (Kahf) (Review in the pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Religious-Mythological context)”, The Studies, Azerbaijan  National  Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, Baku, 2009, pp.7-22.
  • “Religious-Mythological Roots of Idioms related to staff (‘asa) in Arabic Language”, Proceedings of the international conference Modern Approaches Towards Teaching Arabic Language to non-Arabs, Qafqaz University, Baku, 2009, pp. 142-147.
  • “Medieval Arab Historians about the Ancient inhabitants of Azerbaijan”, Proceedings of the International Conference Devoted to the 90 anniversary of BSU, a special issue of The Humanities and Social-Political Sciences,  Baku State University, 2009, pp. 445-447.
  • “Qur’anic Symbolism and Depiction of Eyebrows in the Classical-Azeri-Turkic Sufi poetry (the Symbols of Qaba-qawsayn and Shaqq al-Qamar)”, Hikmet, Azerbaijan  National  Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, Baku, 2010,  pp. 88-106.
  • “Qur’anic Symbolism and Depiction of Eyebrows in the Classical-Azeri-Turkic Sufi poetry (the Symbols of Qalam, Nun, Qaf and Anqa)”, Hikmet, Azerbaijan  National  Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies. Baku, 2011,  pp. 80-95.
  • “Depiction of the Ascension of the Prophet Muhammad in the Poetry of the Prominent Azeri-Turkic Poet Muhammad Fuduli’ in ed. by Gulshen Aliyeva The Sourses of Fuduli Studies, Baku, 2011, vol.III. pp. 443-455.
  • “Azerbaijani Literature in Arabic and its Main Tendencies”, Scholarly Researches, Azerbaijan  National  Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, a special issue, Proceedings of the international conference “Near and Middle East in the System of International Relations”, Baku, 2011, pp. 417-431.
  • “Some Popular beliefs and Superstitions of pre-Islamic Arabs”, Motif Academy Folklore journal, Istanbul, Motif Halk oyunlari Egitim ve Ogretim Vakjfi, 2011(2), pp. 256-267.
  • “The archetype of  the Pen in the Qur’an, Tafsir Books, and in Azeri-Turkic Poetry”,  Hikmet, Azerbaijan  National  Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies.(article I),  Baku. 2011,pp. 60-67.
  • “The archetype of  Pen in the Qur’an, Tafsir Books, and in Azeri-Turkic Poetry”, Hikmet, Azerbaijan  National  Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, (article II), Baku. 2012, pp. 33-44
  • “Qur’anic Symbolism and Depiction of Facial Features in Nesimi’s Poetry”, Proceeding of the International Conference in memoriam of academician Azade  Rustamova, Baku, Elm, 2013, pp. 49-57.
  • “Sacred Writing on the Face of Nesimi’s Beauty”,  Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference in memoriam of academician Azade  Rustamova, Baku, Elm, 2014, 423-429.


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