Yagub Mahmudov


Yagub Mikayil oghlu Mahmudov, also known as Yagub Mahmudlu, is an Azerbaijani historian, professor, full member and advisor of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, honored scientist of Azerbaijan and Dagestan, Laureate of State Prize of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and head of the Department of History of the Ancient World and Middle Ages at the Faculty of History of the Baku State University.

Biography

Yagub Mahmudov was born in 1939 in the village of Bash Goynuk, Shaki district. He graduated with distinction from the Faculty of History of the Azerbaijan State University in 1962.
He defended his thesis for a candidate's degree entitled "Mutual relations between the Aghgoyunlu state and the Republic of Venice " in 1966 and his doctoral thesis on "Mutual relations of Aghgoyunlu and Safavid states with the Western European countries " at the Scientific Council of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1989.
In 1966-1975, Yagub Mahmudov took office as scientific editor, senior scientific editor, head of editorial, and deputy editor-in-chief for scientific affairs at the Azerbaijani Soviet Encyclopedia. From 1968 to 1981, he worked as a senior teacher and then as an associate professor at Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University. In 1992-1993, Mahmudov was vice chairman of the Supreme Attestation Commission under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan and general director of "The Encyclopedia of Azerbaijan" Publishing-Polygraphy Union. In 1981-2004, he became an associate professor, head of department, deputy dean, and dean at the Faculty of History of Baku State University.
From September 13, 2004, to January 22, 2021, Director of the Institute of History of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.

Scientific activity

He is an author of more than 1000 monographs, books, textbooks, scientific scientific-publicistic articles, and other publications, on the history of diplomacy of Azerbaijan different periods of Azerbaijani and world history.
Besides the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, he is also a full member of the International Academy of Sciences of the Turkic World Studies, the International Aytmatov Academy, the International Academy of Modern Sciences named after Lutfi Zadeh, the International Academy of Economic and Social Sciences of Italy, the European Academy of Natural Sciences, the Boniface Academy of Italy, and the Israeli Independent Academy for Development of Sciences.

Political activity

He was a member of the Political Council of the New Azerbaijan Party and addressed the 1st and 3rd congresses of the YAP. In 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015, he was elected to the Milli Majlis (Parliament) of the Republic of Azerbaijan. He was Heydar Aliyev’s and then Ilham Aliyev’s advocate in the presidential elections and accompanied them during several official state visits. He is a member of the YAP Veterans Council.

Notable works

  • Azərbaycanın Avropa ölkələri ilə əlaqələri. Bakı: ADU, 1986.
  • Взаимоотношения государств Аккоюнлу и Сефевидов с западноевропейскими странами. Баку: Издательство Бакинского университета, 1991.
  • Azerbaijan and Europe. London-New York: Xlibris, 2010.
  • Azərbaycan tarixində Heydər Əliyev şəxsiyyəti. Bakı: "Təhsil", 2002.
  • Azərbaycan Xalq Cümhuriyyəti Ensiklopediyası. 2 cilddə. Bakı: "Lider nəşriyyat", 2004–2005.
  • Azerbaijan: short history of statehood. Baku: "Tahsil", 2006.
  • Garabagh: real history, facts, documents. Baku: "Tahsil", 2005.
  • Nakhchivan: History and Monuments. Baku: "Tahsil", 2007.
  • Azərbaycan tarixi atlası. Bakı: Bakı Kartoqrafiya Fabriki, 2007.
  • The Iravan Khanate: the Russian occupation and the relocation of Armenians to the lands of North Azerbaijan. Baku: "Chashioglu", 2010.
  • Heydər Əliyev ideyalarının zəfər yürüşü. Bakı: "Təhsil", 2011.
  • Şuşa‐Pənahabad. Bakı: "Təhsil", 2012.
  • Heydər Əliyev. 2 cilddə. Bakı: Turxan NPB, 2013.
  • İlham Əliyev və Azərbaycan tarix elmi. Bakı: Turxan NPB, 2014.
  • Real history and confabulation on "great Armenia". Baku: Historians of Azerbaijan Public Union, 2015.
  • Historical inheritance rights of the people of Azerbaijan on Irevan and surrounding land shall be restored. Baku: Turkhan PPA, 2015.
  • Azərbaycan Respublikasının tarixi. 2 cilddə. Bakı: Azərbaycan Tarixçiləri İctimai Birliyi, 2016.
  • Azərbaycan xalqına qarşı 1918‐ci il soyqırımları. Bakı: Azərbaycan Tarixçiləri İctimai Birliyi, 2016.
  • Pseudoscience by falsificators, or "The History" by Armenian. Baku: Turkhan PPA, 2018.
  • Azərbaycan tarixi xəritələrdə. Atlas. Bakı: Azərbaycan Tarixçiləri İctimai Birliyi, 2022.

Awards