After receiving her B.A., she was admitted to a graduate program at the Nizami Institute of Language and Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan from which she switched to the Rustaveli Institute of Literature of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.
She worked on a dissertation on Reflection of Azerbaijani-Georgian literary relations in the literature of the XIX century and defended it in 1954.
Aliyeva became a senior researcher at the Institute and then the head of the Department of Ancient and Medieval Literature.
[4] Dilara Aliyeva founded the Azerbaijan Association for the Protection of Women's Rights.
[2] She died on 19 April 1991 in a car crash (in which the philologist Aydin Mammadov was also killed) and was buried in Baku.