Anna Parzymies
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Anna Parzymies | |
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| Born | 5 January 1939 Sofia, Bulgaria |
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| Occupations | Arabist, Turkologist, orientalist, university teacher |
| Known for | Professor at Warsaw University |
| Partner | Stanisław Parzymies[citation needed] |
| Website | www |
Anna Parzymies (b. 5 January 1939 in Sofia, Bulgaria[not verified in body]) is a Polish arabist, doctor of oriental studies, and professor at Warsaw University.
Anna Parzymies finished secondary school and college in Sofia, Bulgaria. During 1957–1962, she studied at the Faculty of Turkish Philology at the University of Sofia.[citation needed] In 1962, she received a Bulgarian government grant to study Arabic at the Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages, Tunis El Manar University, Tunisia.[citation needed] In 1971, she received a master's degree at the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Warsaw University.[citation needed] In 1978, she was awarded a Ph.D. degree at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.[citation needed] Following habilitation in 1992, she was awarded a postdoctoral degree in the humanities, in the field of Turkic linguistics.[citation needed] Her main research interests include language contacts between Turkic and Slavic peoples and the cultures of Muslim communities.[citation needed]
She specializes in three areas of research:[citation needed]
- Islam in Europe (primarily as relates to the Maghreb minorities in France; Chechens, Ingush, Tatars, and other Muslim communities in the Russian Federation; Albanians and Bosnian Muslims in the Balkans);
- Arabic sociolinguistics and, in particular, the Turkish influences on spoken Arabic;
- Methodology of historical linguistics, with an emphasis on the Altaic language group.
Parzymies is also the creator and founder of Dialog Academic Publishing, a Polish publishing company started in 1992.[citation needed] The company specializes in publications that are related to Africa and Asia or are written by authors from the area. Fiction published includes classical Sanskrit poetry, modern Chinese poetry, and novels written by North African authors. It has also published a number of European authors. A considerable part of its output is related to religion and Oriental languages.[citation needed]
Awards and honours
- Parzymies is the founder of the Department of European Islam Studies at the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Warsaw University. In 2009, at a ceremony in Paris, she received the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture.[1]
- in 2018, she received an Ordre des Arts et des Lettres with the rank of Officier for the production of French works of art and literature.[2]
Selected publications
- Anthroponymie algérienne. Noms de famille moderne d'origine turque, (PWN, 1985)
- Encyklopedia. Świat w przekroju 1988 [The world in 1988. Encyclopedia], (coauthor, Wiedza Powszechna, 1989)
- Język protobułgarski. Przyczynek do rekonstrukcji na podstawie porównań turecko-słowiańskich [A contribution to the reconstruction of the Bulgar language on the basis of Turkic-Slavic comparisons], (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 1994)
- Język czuwaski [The Chuvash language], (Wydawnictwo Akademickie "Dialog", 2000).
