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Sovietizing Sayat-Nova: The Migration of Ashiq Poetry
Previous scholarship on Sayat-Nova, including Soviet scholarship, tended to undermine the poet’s role within the bardic tradition by ...
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Previous scholarship on Sayat-Nova, including Soviet scholarship, tended to undermine the poet’s role within the bardic tradition by ...
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Sayat-Nova was an 18th-century ashiq[1]of Armenian origin who is believed to have been a minstrel at the court of Georgian king Irakli ...
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In October 2022, the Union of Azerbaijani Writers (Azərbaycan Yazıçılar Birliyi—AYB) [1] held its controversial XIII Congress at the ...
Atakhan Abilov
societyIn modern political and legal theory, the concept of the nation was for a long time explained primarily through such factors as ethnic origin, ...
Araz Baghirov
religionIn the first part of this article, I sought to demonstrate how religious Azerbaijani society is and in which direction the country’s religious ...
Tinay Mushdiyeva
societyIn my previous article, I noted that traditional academic epistemology focuses on epistemic success as its object of inquiry. I argued that, for ...
Shalala Mammadova
societyIn one of his articles, David Laitin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, describes an episode from his childhood ...
Atakhan Abilov
societyIn criminal justice proceedings, the accused person’s direct participation and the effective exercise of the right to defense constitute ...
Ural Hatemi
societyOn 28 December 2025, protests that began with the closure of shops in Tehran’s bazaar due to the rise in currency prices quickly spread across ...
Araz Baghirov
religionIntroduction From time to time, reports appear in the national press claiming that Azerbaijanis rank among the “least religious peoples in the ...
Shalala Mammadova
societyThe screening of the film Mahsati, which was scheduled to be shown as part of the 16th International Film Festival held in Baku, was banned by ...
BRI Political Studies Group
societyIn the summer of 2024, two researchers in Azerbaijan were arrested one after another. These were Iqbal Abilov, a former lecturer at Belarus State
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