Azerbaijan - Shahin Mustafayev
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Dr. Shahin Mustafayev |
Dr. Shahin Mustafayev graduated from Baku State University, Department of Oriental Studies. In 1990 he received his PhD degree in History from Moscow State University. He was awarded the UNESCO Hirayama-Silk Road Fellowship which enabled him to study in Oxford the legislation and tax practices in Azerbaijan and Anatolia related to international silk trade in 15th century. In 2005-2006 he was a visiting scholar at Indiana University and researched the history of Anatolia in 11-15th centuries.
In 2008-2013 he served as director of the International Institute for Central Asian Studies which enjoyed at that time the status of UNESCO center category 2 and located in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Currently he has a post of deputy director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. He is an author of 4 books and dozens of articles related to Silk Road and medieval history of Azerbaijan, Anatolia and Central Asia.