Sara Ashurbeyli

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Sara Ashurbeyli (Azeri full: Sara Balabəy qızı Aşurbəyli, 27 January 1906, Baku – 17 July 2001, Baku) was a famous Azerbaijani scholar, historian and orientalist.

Daughter of a rich oil magnate, Sara Ashurbeyli had a perfect education and finished Jeanne D’Arc College in Istanbul in 1925 and entered Baku State University in 1930 this time in Soviet Azerbaijan. Graduated as an orientalist, she also studied European languages in Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute, thus besides her native Azerbaijani language she knew Arabic, Persian, Turkish, French, German, Russian, and English. She was also an artist and became a member of the Union of Azerbaijan’s Artists in 1946. During her lifetime she also taught in various institutions and was a dean for a while. She got her Ph.D. in 1966. Her famous works include “History of Baku: mediaeval period” and “Shirvanshah state”.

She died in 2001 at age 95.