Back Həmid Araslı Azerbaijani حمید آراسلی AZB حمید آراسلی Persian Համիդ Արասլի Armenian ჰამიდ არასლი Georgian Араслы, Гамид Мамедтаги оглы Russian Гамід Арасли Ukrainian Hamid Orasli Uzbek
Hamid Arasly | |
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| Born | 23 February 1902 Ganja, Azerbaijan |
| Died | 20 November 1983 (aged 81) Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Known for | Publication of the Book of Dede Korkut |
| Awards | Honored Scientist of Azerbaijan |
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| Alma mater | Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Philology, literary criticism, literary history |
| Institutions | National Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR |
Hamid Mammadtaghi oglu Arasly (Azerbaijani: Həmid Hacı Məmmədtağı oğlu Araslı; 23 February 1902 – 20 November 1983) was an Azerbaijani literary critic, Doctor of Sciences in Philology, and an academic at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.[1] He is acknowledged as one of the most prominent literary critics and philologists of Azerbaijan.
Hamid Arasly has conducted extensive critical research of the works of well-known Azerbaijani and Persian poets as Nizami Ganjavi, Fuzûlî, as well as Imamaddin Nasimi.[2] He has authored multiple works on Azerbaijani literary history. One of his most important contributions to his field is the release of the first full-text Russian edition of the Book of Dede Korkut in 1939.[3]
His period of activity corresponds with heightened repression in the Soviet Union.[4] In 1936, using the eastern manuscripts he had been collecting for a few years, Hamid Arasly created the Manuscripts Bureau within the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. However, a year later, some of the manuscripts preserved in the bureau were found to be against the principles of Soviet ideology. The academic was subsequently fired from his position.[2] He has also been pressured by the Soviet authorities for his publication of the Book of Dede Korkut. The Book, which is a collection of epic stories describing the lifestyle of the nomadic Turkic peoples and their pre-Islamic beliefs, was criticized by the Soviet government for allegedly promoting bourgeois nationalism.[5] Nevertheless, the publication of dastans did not wholly cease during that period.[6]
- ^ "Араслы Гамид Мамедтаги оглы". Большая советская энциклопедия.
- ^ a b "Əməkdaşlarımızın arxiv araşdırmaları". www.milliarxiv.gov.az. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
- ^ Barthold, V. (1962). The book of my grandfather Korkut. Moscow and Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences. pp. 5–8.
- ^ Bunyadov, Ziya (1993). Red Terror. Baku.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Report by Comrade M[ir] D[zhafar Abbasovich] Bagirov at 18th Congress of Azerbaidzhan Communist Party on the Work of the Azerbaidzhan Communist Party Central Committee". Current Digest of the Russian Press. Vol. 23, no. 24. July 28, 1951.
- ^ Alpamysh entry in Bol'shaya sovetskaya entsiklopediya (the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, second edition)