Igbal Abilov

Abilov Igbal (December 12, 1989, village of Kolatan, Masally district, Azerbaijan SSR) is a scientific researcher, Talysh scholar, educator, editor-in-chief of the "Herald of the Talysh National Academy" and a research fellow at the Talysh National Academy. Igbal Shahini Abilov was born in Kulaton village, Masally district, Azerbaijan SSR in 1989. At the age of 8, the family moved to Belarus, where Igbal went to second grade. In 2007, he graduated from school, and in 2012 he graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of the Belarusian State University. Later, continuing his education, he completed his master's degree in 2013 and his postgraduate degree in 2016 from the same faculty. He is the author of books, publications and essays, as well as a participant in scientific conferences in the field of history and ethnography of the South Caucasus, Turkey and Iran. In 2017-2021 he was Lecturer at the Faculty of International Relations of the Belarusian State University. In 2021-2023 he taught at the Belarusian Institute of Law. In 2010, the Talysh National Academy (TNA) was registered in Riga (Latvia), which since 2017 has continued its activities in Vilnius (Lithuania) under the name "Talyšų Nacionalinė Akademija". He is the editor-in-chief of the "Herald of the Talysh National Academy", which is an international scientific journal dedicated to the scientific study of Talysh.