Aida Nasir gizi Imanguliyeva (Azerbaijani: Aida Nəsir qızı İmanquliyeva, 10 October 1939 – 19 September 1992) was an Azerbaijani scholar. She was born in Baku to a highly educated family. Her father, a well-known journalist, pedagogue, Honoured Worker of Science – Nasir Imanguliyev was one of the founders of Azerbaijani press, editor of "Bakı" and "Baku" newspapers for a long time. She was the mother of Azerbaijan's current First Lady and the current Vice President of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva.
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Life
In 1957, Imanguliyeva graduated from school #132 of Baku with a gold medal. In 1957, she enrolled in Azerbaijan State University named after S.M.Kirov. In 1962, after graduation from Arabic philology of the department of Oriental Studies of the advanced studies within the division of the Middle Eastern Literatures of the same university.
She continued her education and research at the Institute of the Peoples of Asia of the former Academy of Sciences of the USSR where in 1966 she was granted a PhD in Arabic Philology.
In 1966, after defence of dissertation, Aida Imanguliyeva began to work at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan-junior researcher (1966), senior researcher (1973), head of Arabic philology department (1976), deputy director for research works (1988). From 1991 to the end of her life, she worked as a director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan.
In 1989, she successfully defended her second doctoral thesis in Tbilisi, Aida Imanguliyeva became the first woman-doctor of oriental studies, and soon she was given a professor's degree in this very speciality.