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CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016

Author	Gasimova, Türkay
Title	The Enlightenment movement and cultural revival in Azerbaijan in the late 19th century
Summary	In this thesis I focus on the late 19th century Azerbaijani history from the perspective of intellectual history. I mainly talk about the Enlightenment Movement with an emphasize on the intellectual debates on Religion and Secularism. Intellectual influences of the newly emerged intelligentsia with a special focus on cultural and intellectual life in Baku is also one of the main focal points of the presented work. My main argument in the thesis is that, without cultural and intellectual revival of late 19th century, which became possible with Baku oil boom, establishing the first Democratic Republic in Muslim world in 1918 wouldn’t be possible. I start with Baku Oil Boom of 1870s and continue with the establishment of the first Azerbaijani newspaper, “Akinchi” and then after examining the main intellectual debates, I conclude the thesis with the two most influential Azerbaijani intellectuals of the late 19th century.
Supervisor	Rieber, Alfred, J
Department	History MA
Full text	https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/gasimova_turkay.pdf

CEU eTD Collection (2016); Gasimova, Türkay: The Enlightenment movement and cultural revival in Azerbaijan in the late 19th century