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The Taghiyev-Behbudov Affair: Conflict Among Caucasian Muslim Elites in the Early XX Century
On May 16, 1911, at about 3:15 in the afternoon, Lutfali bey Behbudov stepped out of a phaeton in the center of Baku and entered the ...
is an independent scholar and translator based in Tbilisi, Georgia. He received an MA in Slavic Lingustics from UCLA, where he also studied Azerbaijani language and history.
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On May 16, 1911, at about 3:15 in the afternoon, Lutfali bey Behbudov stepped out of a phaeton in the center of Baku and entered the ...
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In the summer of 1887, Ahmet Ağaoğlu was in the mountains of Karabakh with his mother’s relatives, nomadic herdspeople of the Saricali ...
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Over a year ago, it was first reported that a new reform of the rules of Azeri orthography was being planned. The Orthography ...
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In his recent article “Argumentum ad ignorantiam”, Elmir Mirzoev describes what he sees as the ongoing influence of the Cyrillic ...
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In 1857, Mirza Fatali Akhundzadeh first proposed linguistic reforms in Azerbaijan, kicking off a century of intense efforts to ...
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