It is the memorial day of orientalist-scientist Aida Imanguliyeva
September 19 is the memorial day of Aida Imanguliyeva, an prominent orientalist, literary critic, pedagogue, interpreter, and patriotic scientist. Aida Imanguliyeva, who lived a short but meaningful life, was both an outstanding scientist who conquered the pinnacle of science, and a bright personality who won the eternal love of the people around her.
Aida Nasir gizi Imanguliyeva was born on 10 October, 1939 in Baku in an intellectual family. In 1957, she graduated from high school number 132 in Baku with a gold medal. In 1957-1962, Aida Imanguliyeva, who studied at the Arabic Philology Department (Section) of the Oriental Studies Faculty of Azerbaijan State University (now Baku State University), was an aspirant at the Department of History of the Literature of Middle Eastern Peoples of this university, and also studied at the graduate school of the Institute of Asian Peoples of Science Academy of the former Soviet Union.
In 1966, Aida Imanguliyeva, who defended her PhD thesis, started working at the Azerbaijan SA Institute of Oriental Studies. By means of her talent and hard-working, she rose from a junior researcher to the position of head of department, deputy director for scientific affairs, and finally to the position of director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences.
In 1989, Aida Imanguliyeva defended her doctoral thesis in Tbilisi, and soon after that she received the title of professor in this specialty.
Aida Imanguliyeva is the author of three fundamental monographs ("Mikhail Nuayma and "Union of Pens", "Jubran Khalil Jubran", "New Arab Literature Corypheys") and more than 70 scientific articles, as well as the editor of many scientific works written in the field of Oriental philology.
She was the chairman of the defense council for the specialty "Literatures of the peoples of Asian and African countries" operating at the Azerbaijan SA Institute of Oriental Studies. Azerbaijan has duly represented the science of oriental studies in the territory of the former Soviet Union and beyond its borders.
Aida Imanguliyeva paid great attention to the training of highly qualified Arabic scholars in her scientific and organizational activities. More than 10 candidate dissertation were defended in a short period of time in the department of Arabic philology, where she was the head.
Aida Imanguliyeva, a member of the Presidium of the All-Union Society of Orientalists and the All-Union Coordinating Council for the Study of Oriental Literature, has been an effective pedagogue for many years and has lectured on Arabic philology at Azerbaijan State University.
Professor Aida Imanguliyeva is the first Azerbaijani scientist who systematically researches East-West literary connection and influence.
In her numerous scientific works, the synthesis of Western and Eastern cultural traditions, the progress of creative style and the formation of a new artistic style are studied, which creates an important basis for the study of not only Arabic literature, but also contemporary Eastern literature in that aspect.
In addition to her extensive scientific activity, Aida had a beautiful, exemplary family, and she raised worthy children for the society. Nargiz Pashayeva, the eldest daughter who dedicated her life to science, is the rector of the Baku branch of the Moscow State University named after M.V.Lomonosov, and the vice-president of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
The second daughter of this family, Mehriban Aliyeva, is the First Vice-President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.
Those who knew her closely said that Lady Aida was a kind and extremely generous woman.
The memory of Aida khanim always lives in our hearts.
