Yusif Jafarov

Yusif Jafarov
Yusif Cəfərov
Born (1952-03-27) 27 March 1952 (age 74)
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Other namesYusuf Dzhafarov
Yosef Jaffarov
OccupationHistorian
RelativesMammad Yusif Jafarov (grandfather)
Academic background
Education
Alma materBaku State University
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian of antiquity and early Middle Ages
Sub-discipline
Specialist in the Hun-Turkic issues, history of Caucasian Albania and the origin of the Azerbaijanis
InstitutionsInstitute of History of Azerbaijan
Harry S. Truman Research Institute

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.

Education

Th member of the IV State Duma of Russia Mammad Yusif Jafarov was his paternal grandfather. 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.

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.

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References

  1. ↑ Jaffarov, Yosef (1996). Between East and West: Is Azerbaijan on the Way to Independence?. Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University.
  2. ↑ Akhundov, Fuad (1998). "Mammad-Yusif Jafarov - Head of Parliament (1885-1938)". Azerbaijan International (6.1): 30. Archived from the original on 2002-01-22. Retrieved 2025-09-30.
  3. ↑ Агабалаев, Шахмар (2021-06-06). "История — корень современности". Turan Information Agency (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2024-04-06. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  4. ↑ Vatchagaev, Mairbek (2024-04-07). "Кто является правопреемником Кавказской Албании" [Who is the successor of Caucasian Albania?]. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (in Russian). Retrieved 2025-06-23.
  5. ↑ Vatchagaev, Mairbek (2024-09-20). "Империя, которой не было: история и наследие гуннов на Кавказе" [The Empire That Never Was: The History and Legacy of the Huns in the Caucasus]. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 2025-06-23.
  6. ↑ Dzafarov, Jusuf (2002). "The Ethnic Origin of the Huns and Their Appearance in Eastern Europe". Continuity and Change in Central and Inner Asia. University of Toronto: 3–10. Archived from the original on 2015-02-05. Retrieved 2025-07-03.