Igrar Aliyev

He followed the methodology of the world-famous Soviet academician V. V. Struve, who was a leading specialist in the field of ancient Oriental studies.

Aliyev knew ancient dead languages including Sumerian, Akkadian and Old Persian.

His works specialized in ancient Media, Atropatena and Caucasian Albania and are cited by Western experts[2][3][4] in the relevant fields.

A pamphlet written in 1997 on architecture in Nagarno Karabakh by Aliyev and Kamil Mamedzade, the two authors also asserted that the celebrated thirteenth century Gandzasar monastery, built by the Armenian prince Hasan-Jalal Dawla,[5] was built by Caucasian Albanians.

Both of them are completely indisputably former Albanians and therefore the Armenians as such [original emphasis] on the territory of Nagorny Karabakh, into which they surged in huge numbers after the first quarter of the nineteenth century, have no rights.