Yusif Jafarov
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Yosef Jaffarov
Yusif Jafarov | |
|---|---|
Yusif Cəfərov | |
| Born | 27 March 1952 |
| Other names | Yusuf Dzhafarov Yosef Jaffarov |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Relatives | Mammad Yusif Jafarov (grandfather) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Baku State University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian of antiquity and early Middle Ages |
| Sub-discipline | Specialist in the Hun-Turkic issues, history of Caucasian Albania and the origin of the Azerbaijanis |
| Institutions | Institute of History of Azerbaijan Harry S. Truman Research Institute[1] |
Yusif Jafarov, also Yusuf Jaffarov or Yosef Jaffarov (b. 27 March 1952, Baku) is a Soviet and Azerbaijani historian of antiquity and early Middle Ages.
Th member of the IV State Duma of Russia Mammad Yusif Jafarov was his paternal grandfather.[2] Born and raised in Baku, Yusif Jafarov went to the Schoold Nr 134. From 1969 to 1974, he studied at the Faculty of History of the Azerbaijan State University (now Baku State University). From 1975 to 1979, he completed an internship and postgraduate study at the Leningrad Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where he studied ancient Greek, Latin and German. In the Turkic-Mongolian Cabinet of the Leningrad Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences, under the guidance of the famous Turkologist Sergey Klyashtorny, he completed work on his dissertation, The Huns and Azerbaijan, which was recommended for publication as a monograph. In 1981, he defended his dissertation in Baku and received a Candidate of Historical Sciences degree (prototype of PhD). Based on this work, the monograph The Huns and Azerbaijan was published in 1985 (republished in Baku in 1993), for which he was awarded the title of Laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR.[3]
Career
From 1975 to 1992, he worked at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR (now Azerbaijan). Currently lives in Toronto, Canada. His articles have been published in such journals as Vestnik drevnej istorii, Vizantijskij Vremennik, Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, Literaturnij Azerbaidzhan and others. He was a participant to many conferences, such as in Taipei, Moscow, Kyiv, Baku, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Makhachkala.
The sphere of Yusif Jafarov's scientific interests is ethnopolitical processes in the Caucasus, in connection with the history of relations of the nomads of the North Caucasus with the states and peoples of the South Caucasus, in particular, with Arran (aka Caucasian Albania). He is also a specialist in the field of ethnogenesis of the modern Azerbaijani people.[4][5]
