Israfil Ismail oglu Abbasli ( Azerbaijani: ''İsrafil İsmayıl oğlu Abbaslı''; b. 1 February 1938,

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- d. 24 March 2013,

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) was a prominent Azerbaijani scientist, Doctor of Philology, professor.

Life

Israfil Abbasly was born on February 1, 1938, in the city of Yerevan, Armenian SSR. Graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of the

Armenian State Pedagogical University Khachatur Abovian Armenian State Pedagogical University (ASPU) (), is a state university and higher education institution based in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. Founded in 1922, the university is specialized in pedagogy and the preparation ...

named after

Khachatur Abovian Khachatur Abovian (; disappeared ) was an Armenian polymath, educator, scientist, philosopher, writer, poet and an advocate of modernization.Panossian, p. 143. He mysteriously vanished in 1848 and was eventually presumed dead. Reputed as the fat ...

. He worked as head of the Azerbaijani folklore department at the Institute of Folklore of

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Scientific activity

The scientist’s field of activity was the dissemination of

Azerbaijani folklore Azerbaijani folklore ( Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan folkloru) is the folk tradition of Azerbaijani people. Sources of Azerbaijani folklore Azerbaijani folklore is in many aspects, similar to that of other Turkic peoples. Eposes such as Kitabi-Dede ...

, identifying the area of influence of dastans, studying the characteristics of scientific directions, and preparing folklore publications in foreign languages. They have participated in the preparation of a series of fundamental publications and are one of the authors of main articles in the 6 volumes of the 10-volume

Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia'' (in Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Sovet Ensiklopediyası, Cyrillic: Азәрбајҹан Совет Енсиклопедијасы, ) is a ten volume universal encyclopedia published in Baku, Azerbaijan from 197 ...

. They have also worked as a compiler, editor, author of prefaces, explanations, and notes for multiple multi-volume works such as "Azerbaijani Classical Literature Library," "Treasures of Azerbaijani Literature," "World Children's Literature," "Anthology of Azerbaijani Folklore." In latest years, they have served as the deputy editor for the first volume of the six-volume "History of Azerbaijani Literature" and have authored several introductions in that volume. Abbasli was the author of 160 scientific works and two monographs. Under the leadership of Abbasli, seven candidates and two doctors of science defended their dissertations.

Selected scientific works

His most well-known works are: * * * * *

References

Works cited

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Abbasli, Israfil 1938 births 2013 deaths Azerbaijani academicians Scientists from Yerevan Azerbaijani scientists Azerbaijani philologists Armenian State Pedagogical University alumni