Mirfatyh Zakiev
Мирфатых Закиев
Мирфатыйх Зәкиев
Zakiev in 2021
Born(1928-08-14)14 August 1928
Zaipy, Yutazinsky District, Tatar ASSR, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died18 August 2023(2023-08-18) (aged 95)
NationalityRussian
Occupation(s)Linguist,[1] university teacher and public figure
TitleDoctor of Linguistics. Professor
Board member ofFull member, and member of Presidium at Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan Republic (AN/RT)
AwardsHonored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1976) and of the Tatarstan Republic (1970), Laureate of the Tatarstan Republic State Premium in Science and Technology
Academic background
Alma materKazan State University
ThesisSyntactic Structure of the Tatar language (1963)
Academic work
DisciplineTurkologist
InstitutionsRector of Kazan State Pedagogical Institute, Dean of Tatar Language Faculty of Kazan State University
Main interestsSyntaxis of Tatar language, History of Tatar linguistics, Development of Tatar language
Notable worksThe predicate in a modern Tatar literary language (1954); Syntactic Structure of the Tatar language (1963)

Mirfatyh Zakievich Zakiev (Russian: Мирфатых Закиевич Закиев; Tatar: Мирфатыйх Зәки улы Зәкиев, Mirfatıyx Zäki ulı Zäkiyev; 14 August 1928 – 18 August 2023) was a Soviet and Russian controversial academic in the domain of Turkology scholar.

Education and career

Mirfatyh held a doctorate, and served in a number of higher schools and institutes as a rector, director and department head (KGPI 1967–1986, IJALI 1986–1997).

A full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Tatarstan Republic, he was an ex-chairman of the Republican Parliament in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and had also headed the Scientific Commission of the Education Ministry of the Russian Federation for the philological sciences.

Reception

For Zakiev's fundamental research in syntactic architecture of the Tatar language, academician B.A. Serebrennikov had commented: "This is the first most full and logically faultless monograph about the syntax of the Türkic languages".

Zakiev claimed that "proto-Turkish is the starting point of the Indo-European languages", that Sumerian, Ancient Greek, Icelandic, Etruscan and Minoan are languages of Turkic origin, and that the Sumerians, Scythians and Sarmatians were of Turkic origin. These views are generally rejected by the vast majority of scholars (see Pseudo-Turkology) and he had been frequently described as an "alternative historian" and a "militant amateur".[2][3][4]

Death

Mirfatyh Zakiev died on 18 August 2023, at the age of 95.[5]

Main publications

  1. "Hezerge Tatar edebi tele, Syntax", Kazan, 1958, in Tatar ("Хәзерге татар әдәби теле. Синтаксис", Казан, 1958)
  2. "Syntactic structure of the Tatar language", Kazan, 1963, in Russian ("Синтаксический строй татарского языка", Казань, 1963)
  3. School textbooks on Tatar language for upper grades of Tatar schools, republished from 1964 on. (Школьные учебники по татарскому языку для 8,9,10,11 классов татарских школ, начиная с 1964 года по наст. время выдержали по нескольку изданий)
  4. "Tatar halky telenen barlykka kilüe", Kazan, 1977 ("Татар халкы теленең барлыкка килүе", Казан, 1977, in Tatar). Examination of the Bulgarian Middle Age epitaphs found that contrary to the sanctioned doctrine, the first epitaph style belonged to the Bulgars of various local Turkic-speaking tribes which later developed into Tatar people, and the second epitaph style belonged to the Moslem Chuvashes who were assimilating Bulgarian language (Изучение булгарских сердневековых эпитафий показало что вопреки санкционированной доктрине, первый стиль эпитафий принадлежал булгарам различных местных тюрко-говорящих племен, которые позже развились в татарский народ, а второй стиль эпитафий принадлежал чувашам-мусульманам ассимилировавшим булгарский язык)
  5. "Volga Bulgars and their descendants", co-author Ya.F.Kuzmin-Yumanadi, Kazan, 1993, in Russian ("Волжские булгары и их потомки", соавт. Я.Ф.Кузьмин-Юманади, Казань, 1993, in Russian). Study established that Tatars are descendants of Bulgars, instead of Chuvashes, postulated by the sanctioned doctrine (Изучение доказывает что потомками булгар являются татары, а не чуваши, как это ошибочно утверждается в санкционированной доктрине).
  6. "Problems of language and origin of Volga Tatars", Kazan, 1986, in Russian ("Проблемы языка и происхождения волжских татар", Казань, 1986)
  7. "Tatars: Problems of a history and language", Kazan, 1995, in Russian ("Татары: Проблемы истории и языка", Казань, 1995)
  8. "Tatar grammar, Vol 3, Syntax", Kazan, 1992 and 1995 in Russian, Moscow – Kazan, 1999 in Tatar ("Татарская грамматика, Том 3, Синтаксис". Издания на русском: Казань, 1992 и 1995. Издание на татарском: – Москва-Казань, 1999)
  9. "Törki-Tatar ethnogenesis", Moscow-Kazan, 1998, in Tatar. ("Төрки-татар этногенезы", Мәскәü-Казан, 1998) Study discredits the sanctioned doctrine of Mongolo-Tatar origin of the modern Tatars. (В книге раскрыты древние местные этнические корни татар. На основе изучения имеющихся всевозможных источников доказывается несостоятельность мнения о монголо-татарском происхождении современных татар.)
  10. "Origin of Türks and Tatars", Moscow, 2003, in Russian ("Происхождение тюрков и татар, Москва, 2003). Study of local ethnic roots of Türks and Tatars discredits the sanctioned doctrine of Türkic late migration in 4th-6th centuries AD from Altai to Central and Middle Asia, Near East, Asia Minor, Western Siberia, Ural-Itil region, Caucasus and Balkans; and migration of Tatar-Bulgar ancestors to Ural-Itil region in 7th century AD from N.Pontic. (Впервые излагается научная точка зрения о местных этнических корнях тюрков и татар, доказывается несостоятельность мнения о приходе тюрков лишь в 4-6 вв. н.э. из Алтая в Центральную, Среднюю, Переднюю, Малую Азию, Западную Сибирь, Урало-Поволжье, на Кавказ и Балканы; о приходе предковтатар-булгар в Урало-Поволжье лишь в 7 в. н.э. якобы из Северного Причерноморья)

References

  1. ^ Faller, Helen (January 1, 2011). Nation, Language, Islam: Tatarstan's Sovereignty Movement. Central European University Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-9639776845.
  2. ^ Izmailov, I.L. "Тюрко-Татарский Мир: Незаконнорожденные дети господ журналистов или о навязчивом шумеро-булгаризаторстве истории татар" [Turkic-Tatar World: Illegitimate children of gentlemen of journalists or about the obsessive Sumerian-Bulgarian nature of the history of the Tatars]. www.tataroved.ru (in Russian).
  3. ^ Sheiko, Konstantin; Brown, Stephen (2014). History as Therapy: Alternative History and Nationalist Imaginings in Russia. ibidem Press. pp. 61–62. ISBN 978-3838265650. Mirfatykh Zakiev, a Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Tatar ASSR and professor of philology who has published hundreds of scientific works, argues that proto-Turkish is the starting point of the Indo-European languages. Zakiev and his colleagues claim to have discovered the Tatar roots of the Sumerian, ancient Greek and Icelandic languages and deciphered Etruscan and Minoan writings.
  4. ^ Hunter, Shireen; Thomas, Jeffrey L.; Melikishvili, Alexander (2004). Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security. M.E. Sharpe. p. 159. ISBN 0765612828. M. Zakiev claims that the Scythians and Sarmatians were all Turkic. He even considers the Sumerians as Turkic
  5. ^ Академия наук Республики Татарстан выражает искренние соболезнования родным и близким в связи с кончиной ЗАКИЕВА МИРФАТЫХА ЗАКИЕВИЧА (in Russian)
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