Roida Rzayeva


Roida Rzayeva — is an Azerbaijani philosopher, Orientalist, Doctor of Science in Philosophy, and professor.

Life and education

Roida Oktay gizi Rzayeva was born in 1979 in Baku. In 1996, she finished high school with the awards of honor. In 2000, Rzayeva graduated from the Turkish Department of Oriental Studies Faculty in Baku State University with the bachelor honors diploma. In 2002, she acquired master honors diploma from the same department. From 2001 to 2010, she worked as a simultaneous interpreter in conferences and events at state and international levels. In 2004, Rzayeva had a training in the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Azerbaijan.
In 2026, Roida Rzayeva successfully completed a special two-part programme entitled “Leadership and Communication”, organised by the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and received a professional certificate from Harvard University.

Scientific and pedagogical activity

From 2002 to 2011, she worked at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, in the Institute for Oriental Studies named after Academician Z.M. Bunyadov.
In 2007, Rzayeva defended her PhD thesis on philosophical sciences in the Institute for Oriental Studies named after academician Z.M. Bunyadov, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
From 2003 to 2004, and from 2007 to 2008, Rzayeva gave lectures at Turkish Department of Oriental Studies Faculty, Baku State University.
From 2002 to 2005, she worked as a teacher and a head of Russian Department at FONO Institution of Open Education under the Ministry of Education, Republic of Turkey.
From 2005 to 2010, Rzayeva was a chairman of the Young Scientists’ Council of the Institute for Oriental Studies named after Academician Z.M. Bunyadov and a chairman of Department for Humanitarian and Social Sciences of Youth Intellectual Development Center in Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
From 2008 to 2010, Rzaeva was a member of an editorial board of the scientific journal Transactions of young scientists, published on initiative of the Centre of Intellectual development of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Azerbaijan Republic and the Society of Young scientists, post-graduate students and masters.
From January 2011 to March 2017, she worked as a deputy director of Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
From 2012 to 2017, she was deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Scientific Works which has been published in Institute of Philosophy and Law, National Academy of Sciences.
In 2013, she became an associate professor.
In 2013, Rzaeva was elected the chairman of the Council of young scientists and experts of Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, and in 2014, was elected a member of the board of the Council of young scientists and experts of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
In 2016, Rzayeva defended her D.Sc. thesis on philosophical sciences, in Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
Since 2020, she works as a head of Department of History and Theory of Oriental Studies in Institute of Oriental Studies named after academician Z.M.Bunyadov, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
In 2023, she became a professor.

Selected publications

  • Пути развития турецкой литературы. Баку: "Nafta-Press", 2001, 280 s.
  • Rus ve Azerbaycan Kaynaklarında Türk Modernleşmesi. Ankara: Lotus Yayın Grubu, Otorite Yayınları, 2012, 271 s.,.
  • Постмодерн и мультикультурализм: междисциплинарный дискурс. Баку: "Елм ве тахсил", 2015, 300 s.
  • Siyasәtin fәlsәfәsi. Analitik diskurslar: ideologiya, media, diplomatiya. Bakı, “Tәhsil Nәşriyyat-Poliqrafiya” MMC, 2025, 336 s.
  • Незападная современность в дискурсе постмодерна и культурной полифонии. Баку: "Елм ве тахсил", 2015, 328 s.
  • The Challenges of Contemporaneity: Postmodernity and Multiculturalism. Springer, 2016.
  • К вопросу о символической политике постмодернистского мира // Вопросы философии. 2011. No. 9.
  • Дихотомия «Запад – не Запад» в дискурсе незападной современности и постмодерна // Вопросы философии. 2012. No. 12.
  • Конец метанарративов в контексте проблематики прошлого и вызовов будущего // Вопросы философии. 2014. No. 2.
  • Modernleşme Süreci Üzerine.
  • Мультикультурализм в постмодернистском контексте / Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, 2018.
  • Orientalism and Ottoman Modernisation in the Discourse of Postmodernism // European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 2019.
  • Türk Dünyası ve Stratejik Siyasetin Felsefesi: Yumuşak Güç ve Medya // Sakarya Üniversitesi Türk Akademi Dergisi. 2023. No. 2.
  • • Siyasәtin fәlsәfәsi. Analitik diskurslar: ideologiya, media, diplomatiya. Bakı, “Tәhsil Nәşriyyat-Poliqrafiya” MMC, 2025, 336 s.