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Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek | |
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| Born | Muhammad Ali Kazim-bey June 22, 1802 Rasht, Iran |
| Died | November 27, 1870 (aged 68) St.Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Occupation(s) | Orientalist, historian, philologist |
| Family | Kazembek family |
Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek (Russian: Алекса́ндр Каси́мович Казембе́к or Казем-Бек; Azerbaijani: Aleksandr Kazımbəy or Mirzə Kazım-bəy; Persian: میرزا کاظم بیگ Mirzâ Kâzem Beg) (22 July 1802 – 27 November 1870), born Muhammad Ali Kazim-bey (Azerbaijani: Məhəmməd Əli Kazımbəy), was an orientalist, historian and philologist. He was the great-grandfather and namesake of the Mladorossi founder Alexander Kazembek.
The Cambridge History of Russia refers to him as "a Dagestani Persian of Shi‘i origin",[1] whereas the Archival Collections of Columbia University Libraries refers to his great-grandson as born "into an old noble family of Persian (Azeri) origin".[2] Robert P. Geraci refers to Kasimovich Kazembek as "an Azeri who converted to Christianity",[3] whereas Brill's Christian-Muslim Relations series refers to him as born "to a prominent Iranian family from the Caucasus", whose father was an "Azerbaijani Muslim cleric".[4] Historian and political scientist Zaur Gasimov refers to him as "Russian Orientalist of Azerbaijani origin".[5]
- ^ Bobrovnikov, Vladimir (2006). "Islam in the Russian Empire". In Lieven, Dominic (ed.). The Cambridge History of Russia, Volume II: Imperial Russia, 1689–1917. Cambridge University Press. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-521-81529-1.
The department's leading consultant in the field of Islamic law was Kazembeg, a Dagestani Persian of Shi'i origin converted to Presbyterianism in his youth.
- ^ "Aleksandr Kazem-Bek Papers, 1898-2014". columbia.edu. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ Robert P. Geraci. Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia. (Cornell University Press, 2001), 310 (note 3) ISBN 0-8014-3422-X, 9780801434228
- ^ Jorati, Hadi (2023). "Iran and Afghanistan: Alexander Kazembeg". In Thomas, David; Chesworth, Thomas A. (eds.). Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 20. Iran, Afghanistan and the Caucasus (1800-1914). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. pp. 198–200.
- ^ Gasimov, Zaur (2018). "T". Historical dictionary of Azerbaijan. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. ISBN 9781538110416.
Even though the Russian Orientalist of Azerbaijani origin and instructor of Persian at Kazan University Mirza Kazembek (1802–1870) authored his seminal Grammar of Turko-Tatar Language in 1839, the institutionalization of Turkological research in Azerbaijan itself started with the foundation of the Oriental Studies Department at the university in Baku in 1919.