[1] 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 continued her education and research at Institute of the Peoples of Asia of the former Academy of Sciences of the USSR where in 1966 she was granted PhD in Arabic Philology.
From 1991 to the end of her life, she worked as a director of Institute of Oriental Studies the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan.
[2] In 1989, she successfully defended the second doctoral thesis in Tbilisi, Aida Imanguliyeva became the first woman-doctor of oriental studies and soon she was given professor's degree of this very speciality.
In the sphere of scientific-organizational activities Aida Imanguliyeva gave great consideration to training of highly specialized personnel of Arabists.