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| Born | Əli Hüseyn oğlu Şamilov (1948-06-05)June 5, 1948 |
| Citizenship | Azerbaijan |
| Alma mater | Baku State University |
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| Fields | Folklore studies,Turkology |
| Institutions | Institute of Folklore of the ANAS |
| Website | www.ali-shamil.tr.gg |
Ali Shamil (Azerbaijani:Əli Şamil) is an Azerbaijanifolklorist,Turcologist, literary scholar and research fellow at theInstitute of Folklore ofANAS.[1]
Ali Shamil was born on June 5, 1948, in the village of İnəkdağı (nowTretuk),Basargechar District of theArmenian SSR.[2] His family was deportated into iner districts ofAzerbaijan SSR duringthe resettlement of the Azerbaijani population of the Armenian SSR with the Decree of theCouncil of Ministers of the USSR. His family was settled down in the village of Məmmədalılar (nowQapanlı),Shamkhor District of the Azerbaijan SSR, where he studied in a seven-year school in 1954–57. AfterStalin's death, the family returned to their native village, where he completed his secondary education in İnəkdağı, then inMets Mazra andZod.[3]
In 1968–73, he studied at the Journalism department of theBaku State University. He actively participated in student scientific conferences, was elected as the chairman of the Student Scientific Society of the faculty and deputy chairman of the Student Scientific Society of the university. In 1973, he was sent to work for the newspaperŞərq qapısı, the official mouthpiece of theCommunist Party in theNakhichevan ASSR.
During his student years inBaku, he was a member of the secret meetings. During these years (the period ofBrezhnev's stagnation), the development of the Azerbaijani national movement continued mainly underground.[4][5] He was interrogated by theState Security Committee (well-known KGB) for distributing leaflets and photographs of theADR period. After the eruption of theNagorno-Karabakh conflict, he was active in theMeydan movement.
In 1988, he actively participated in the unification of secret organizations inNakhichevan, and was elected as a member of the Council and Board of the Nakhchivan regional organization of theAzerbaijani Popular Front. Since 1989, he has been one of the organizers of the publication of the illegal (samizdat) newspapersAğrıdağ (organ of the Nakhchivan Trade Union Council),Varlıq andGüney (organ of the APF of Nakhchivan) andOyanış, published for theTurks of Iran in the Arabic alphabet, as well as the newspaperİstiqlal. From 1990 to 1993, he worked as a regional correspondent for the newspaperAzadlıq. But due to his opposition toHeydar Aliyev's rule in Nakhichevan, he had to stop his political activities in July 1992. In September 1993, he had to move to Baku. In October 1993, he headed theUşaq ensiklopediyası (Children's Encyclopedia) group at the Azerbaijan National Encyclopedia. In April 2004, he resigned.
Since 1998, he worked as a research fellow at the Institute of Folklore of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, and since 2007 as the head of the international relations department of the same institute.[1]
Ali Shamil is the first researcher of such poets asAlmas Ildyrym, Amin Abid Gultekin, Ahiskaly Khasta Gasym, Childirli Ashug Irfani in Azerbaijan. He studies the folklore and literature of the Turkic peoples (Uyghurs,Gagauz,Meskhetian Turks, Turkic peoples of theNorth Caucasus andCentral Asia,Turks of Cyprus,Qashqai in Iran,Turkmens of Syria). He was the organizer of national conferences in Baku,Tbilisi,Istanbul,Bolu and others.
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