Ramazon Nazariev

Tajik State Pedagogical University
Department of Philosophy of Culture
Rudaki av., 121
Dushanbe, 734036
Tajikistan

Office telephone : (992) 372 247650
Home telephone : (992) 372 365635
e-mail: rnazariev@yahoo.com

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During the 2006-2007 academic year, Ramazon Nazariev was a visiting research professor at The George Washington University, affiliated with the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning. His stay in the USA was supported by the Junior Faculty Development Program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. His advisor at GWU was Professor Paul Churchill, Department of Philosophy. He observed and studied courses in the History of Modern Philosophy, American Philosophy, Sociocultural Anthropology, American Philosophy and Islamic Philosophy and Theology.

Ramazon Nazariev is a Candidate Nauki and Docent in the Department of Philosophy of Culture at Tajik State Pedagogical University. He teaches History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Culture, and History of Religion there.

Education

December 2006 – present Fellow of JFDP Program
The George Washington University, Washington, DC
October – June 2002-2003 Courses of Academic English Language
Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Certificate in English Language

July – August, 2001 Institute of Oriental Languages
Certificate (art design)
Byshkek, Kyrgyzstan
1994 –1996 Post–graduate studies, the Tajik State
Pedagogical University Dushanbe, Tajikistan

 Diploma in philosophy, PhD (Candidate Nauki)

1979 –1985 Diploma in linguistics (Arabic language and literature)
The Tajik National University, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Research Fields

History of Philosophy
Philosophy of Culture
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophical Anthropology
Ramazon Nazariev has published extensively in the field of Cultural and Historical Philosophy as well as Philosophical and Religious Anthropology, focusing on the learning of human problems in Islam. He wrote a monograph on Parallels in the Social Thought of Ikhwan as-Safa and Nasir Khusraw. He is researching the problems related the Philosophy of Culture of West and East in the modern context.
Ramazon Nazariev has written more than thirty articles for scholarly magazines and collections and several books. Some of them are detailed below:

Researches and Monographs:

  1. Parallels in the Social Thought of Ikhwan as-Safa and Nasir Khusraw (in Russian) – is in press.
  2. Allegorical Interpretations of Philosophical and Theological Problems in Ismailism (in Russian)
  3. Nasir Khusraw: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (editor with Dr. S. Niyozov , in English, Tajik, Persian and Russian).

Articles:

  1. Ikhwan as-Safa (“Brethren of Purity”) and their ideas on the formation of civil society (article, in Russian)
  2. Spiritual ideas and Secularism in Nasir Khusraw’s thought (article, in Tajik)
  3. Ikhwan as-Safa: an extraction and the development of society (in Russian)
  4. “The time” in the Philosophy of Ismailism (in Russian)
  5. The idea of World Creation in Ismailism (in Russian)
  6. Doubting the doubt of  the doubters (in Tajik)
  7. “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” of M. Weber and “Shiism” of Naubakhti (comparative views, in Russian)
  8. Review of methods of teaching (in Tajik)