User:Kazim Azimov/sandbox

Biography
Kazim Azimov was born on February 10, 1951 in Astara, Republic of Azerbaijan. His parents were the secondary school teachers. His maternal grandfather was engaged in philanthropic activities, paternal grandfather was connoisseur of the Qur’an and Islamic knowledge. His father was a public figure and awarded an “Honored Teacher of the Azerbaijan SSR”. After finishing the secondary school in 1968, he studied at the faculty of English and Azerbaijani languages at the Institute of Foreign languages (now the Azerbaijan University of Languages - AUL). He graduated with honors from AUL in 1973. In the same year he was assigned a teacher of the English language at AUL. He served in the Soviet army in 1974. He continued his studies at the Moscow State University postgraduate school (Aspirantura) for a PhD (Kandidat nauk) in philosophy (1975-1978). He defended his PhD thesis (Kandidat nauk) in 1979, titled “Ethical Thought of Medieval Azerbaijan and Critique of Western Orientalism”, at the philosophy faculty of Moscow State University after M. V. Lomonosov. In 1980-1982 he continued learning Arabic and Persian languages at the faculty of Oriental Studies at the Azerbaijan State University (now Baku State University). After completing his doctoral studies (doktorantura) in 1983-1986  for a doctor in sciences in philosophy at the philosophy faculty of Moscow State University after M. V. Lomonosov, he successfully defended therein his doctoral thesis in 1989, titled “Man in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy of Azerbaijan (in the context of Middle East)”. In 1990 he became a professor of Social Sciences.

Scientific and pedagogical activity
Since the 1979s, Prof. Azimov has been combining the scientific research with his teaching activity at different universities. In 1979, Prof. Serafim Timofeevich Melyukhin, then the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Moscow State University, Corresponding (Associate) Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, recommended K. Azimov as a teacher of philosophy for foreign students at the Moscow University of Friendship of Peoples named after P. Lumumba. In 1980-1998s he worked as a teacher, Associate Professor, Professor, Head of the Department of Social Sciences at the Azerbaijan State Institute of Arts, Head of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at the Khazar University in Baku. From 1998 to the present, he is a professor of sociology, history and methodology of sociology at Baku State University. Starting with 2000s, he has been teaching and researching at universities of USA and Europe as a visiting professor and senior research fellow.