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Dr. F A R I D A L A K B A R L I
Farid Alakbarli is the president of the Azerbaijan Association of Medical Historians, Director of the Department of Information and Translation of the Institute of Manuscripts of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of History of Medicine, National Delegate from Azerbaijan to International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM).
B I O G R A P H Y
Farid Alakbarli was born in 1964 in Ganja city, Azerbaijan, in the family of scientists.
In 1980, Farid Alakbarli graduated from the Russian School ¹134 in Baku, and entered the Biological Department of the Baku State University. At the same time, he studied Arabic script and Persian in special courses at the University of Foreign Languages.
Farid Alakbarli is MSc, Biological Department of Baku State University, (1986). PhD, Institute of Botany of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (1992). Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Futurology (1994). Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (1998).
From left to right: Dr. Farid Alakbarli, Dr. Alain Touwaide (Secretary General of ISHM), Oktay Shiraliyev (Minister of Healthcare of Azerbaijan) Abulfaz Garayev (Minister of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan), Prof. Athanasios Diamandopoulos (President of ISHM). The 1st International Conference “Traditional Medicine and Materia Medica in Medieval Manuscripts”, Baku, June 12-14, 2006.
Dr. Alakbarli is a medical historian researching medieval medical manuscripts. He is the author of about 150 scientific and educational articles and 12 books. His main contributions are on history of medicine in Azerbaijan, history of Greco-Arabic medicine, ethnobotany and ethopharmacology.
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Dr. Alakbarli spent 20 years as a research scientist at the Institute of Manuscripts in Baku. Subsequently, he worked as an expert at the Centre of Sociological Studies in the Parliament of Azerbaijan. Prof. Alakbarli gave seminars at the Institute of Manuscripts and at the Futurology University (Baku). He organized courses, specifically in the areas of study of medicinal plants and history of medicine.
Farid Alakbarli studied history of pharmacy, medicine and health protection in the Middle East and Azerbaijan. These studies were carried out on the basis of medieval Azeri, Ottoman, Arabic and Persian manuscripts of the 10-18th centuries. As a result, 724 species of medicinal plants, 150 species of animals, 115 species of minerals and 866 types of complex medicines used during Middle Ages have been identified. The concept of health protection which existed in medieval Azerbaijan has been identified and studied for the first time
In 2010-2011, Farid Alakbarli conducted archival research in the Vatican Apostolic Library, and discovered in this archive more than 60 medieval manuscripts related with Azerbaijan. .
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