Academic degrees:

• 2007 – Dr. Sc. in History. Thesis: “Distinctive features of national-religious relations in the Muslim East countries (a case of Iran and Iraq contemporary history)”.
• 1982 – PhD in History. Thesis: “Correlation of the national and the social in social development of Iran and Iraq after the Second World War”.

Education:

• 1979–1982 – PhD student at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences
• 1967–1972 – Azerbaijani State University, philological faculty

Work experience:

• 2008 – present: Head of the Department of History, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences
• 2007–2008: leading researcher, Department of History, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences
• 2004–2007: senior researcher, Department of History, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences
• 1992–2004: independent researcher
• 1990–1992: senior researcher, Department of History, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences
• 1975–1990: editor, senior editor, researcher, head of information needs studies department, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences

Awards and Honors:

• 2019 – certificate of honor of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• 2019 – certificate of honor of the Ministry of Science and Education, Russian Federation
• 2019 – certificate of honor of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences
• 2009 – certificate of honor of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• 1991–1992 – one silver and two bronze medals of VDNKh (Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy)

Fields of research:

• History of Arab Muslim civilization.
• Genesis and political culture of Islam.
• The Qur’an studies.
• Genealogy of Arab tribes.
• Problems of Christianity and Islam convergence.

Over 70 scientific publications including 8 monographs.

Selected publications:

Monographs:

• Arif Aliev (2020) Mysteries of Prophet Muhammad’s family. – Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences. 271 p.
• Arif Aliev (2014) The Quraysh: Historical and genealogical guide. – Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences. 2nd revised ed. 584 p.
• Arif Aliev (2009). Science and omens in the Qur’an: (Commentaries to the “scientific” interpretations of the Muslims’ Holy Scripture). – Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences. 484 p.
• Aliev A.A. (2007) A riddle of the “Mysterious letters” in the Qur’an. – Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences. 340 p.
• Aliev A.A. (2006) “The national” and “the religious” in the Iran and Iraq interstate relations in the 20th century. – Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences. 400 p.
• Arif Aliev (2004) Qur’an in Russia: A source of knowledge or an object of mythmaking? – Moscow: Druzhba narodov. 384 p.
• Arif Aliev (2002). Iran vs Iraq: History and contemporaneity. – Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Moskovskogo Universiteta. 768 p.

Articles:

• Aliev A.A. Ideology of the “Muslim nationalism”: An analytical survey. – Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, 2009. 104 p.
• Aliev A. On Qur’an’s “mysterious letters” interpretations // Irano-Slavica. 2006. N 1(9). P. 10–19.
• Aliev A. The content of jihad in the context of the contemporary East-West confrontation: (Dogmatic aspect of the problem) // Sotsial’no-gumanitarnye znaniia. 2006. N 4. P. 307–318.
• Aliev A. “The Holy War” in the political culture of Islam in the 6th–7th centuries: (Historical aspect of the problem) // Politicheskaia nauka. 2006. N 3. P. 220–239.
• Aliev A. The origin of Muslim civilization and Iran // Irano-Slavica. 2005. N 1(5). P. 28–36.
• Aliev A. Jihad: Contemporary myths and authentic texts of the Qur’an // Rossiia i sovremennyi mir. 2004. N 2(43). P. 160–173.

Membership of editorial boards of academic journals:

• 2009–present: Sotsial’nye i gumanitarnye nauki. Otechestvennaia I zarubezhnaia literatura. Seriia 5. Istoriia [Social Sciences and Humanities. Home and International Literature. Series 5, History]. – Editor-in-chief

Membership of professional associations:

• A member of the Society of the orientalists, Russian Academy of Sciences.