Farida Mammadova
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Farida Jafar gizi Mammadova (born 8 August 1936, Ali Bayramli) is a renowned Azerbaijani historian who specialises in the history of ancient Caucasian Albania. She is the author of numerous research papers, articles and books on Azerbaijani ancient and medieval history. She lectures at the Baku State University, Azerbaijan Pedagogical University, and is the head of the Department of Humanities in the Western University in Baku. Farida Mammadova works at the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan. In her research, she is known to be a disciple of the late prominent Azerbaijani historian and the former vice-president of the Azerbaijani Academy of Sciences Ziya Bunyadov.
Mammadova's major contribution is in the study of the development of Caucasian Albania, its ethnic composition, political and social life, the development of Christianity in Caucasian Albania, Caucasian Albanian Church, arts and literature.
[edit] Selected Publications
- The History of Albanians by Moses Kalankaytuk as a Source on the Social Organization of Caucasian Albania, Baku,1977.
- Political History and Historical Geography of Caucasian Albania, Baku, 1986
- Le problem de l'ethnos alban-caucasien, "L'antropoloqie sovietique", Paris, 1990
- Christianity in Caucasian Albania [1]
- Caucasian Albania and the History of Albanians, Baku (in Russian), 2005
