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By Nigar Orujova

Azerbaijan’s First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva paid tribute to eminent Orientalist Aida Imanguliyeva on the occasion of her birthday, on October 10.

The President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, accompanied with the family members and friends of Aida Imanguliyeva, visited the second Alley of Honors to lay flowers at the tomb of the scientist.

Aida Imanguliyeva, Azerbaijan's first female doctor of sciences and first professor on Arabian literature, made a tremendous contribution to the development of Oriental studies in Azerbaijan and earned the respect of the scientific community.

She was a member of the Presidium of All-Union Oriental Studies Society and the All-Union Coordination Council on the survey of Eastern literature in the former USSR. As an adherent to the Azerbaijan orientalist school, she gave lectures in scientific congresses, symposiums and sessions held in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Poltava, Dushanbe, Tbilisi and other cities.

Imanguliyeva started her career as a senior scientific employee in the “Arabic Literature Group” and became the head of the organization in 1972. Following, she started working as the head of the Arabic Philology department newly established within the Near and Middle Eastern Nations Institute of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences.

As she was leading that department, ten orientalists defended their Ph.D. theses under her guidance and were rewarded with the scientific degree of the candidate of Philological Sciences.

Aida Imanguliyeva, who took an active role in the scientific and public-political life of the Oriental Studies Institute, was appointed the deputy director for scientific issues in 1988 due to her hard work and activity. A year later, she defended her doctor's thesis that she had been working on for quite some time.

Imanguliyeva continued to rise in her positions and became the Director of the Oriental Studies Institute on December 1991. Along with her scientific works, she was also engaged in pedagogical work.

Aida Imanguliyeva passed away on September 19, 1992.