Anna Parzymies | |
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Born | 5 January 1939 Sofia, Bulgaria |
Alma mater | |
Occupation(s) | Arabist, Turkologist, orientalist, university teacher |
Known for | Professor at Warsaw University |
Partner | Stanisław Parzymies [ citation needed ] |
Website | www |
Anna Parzymies (b. 5 January 1939 in Sofia, Bulgaria[ not verified in body ]) is a Polish arabist, doctor of oriental studies, and professor at Warsaw University.
Anna Parzymies finished secondary school and college in Sofia, Bulgaria. During 1957–1962, she studied at the Faculty of Turkish Philology at the University of Sofia.[ citation needed ] In 1962, she received a Bulgarian government grant to study Arabic at the Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages, Tunis El Manar University, Tunisia.[ citation needed ] In 1971, she received a master's degree at the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Warsaw University.[ citation needed ] In 1978, she was awarded a Ph.D. degree at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.[ citation needed ] Following habilitation in 1992, she was awarded a postdoctoral degree in the humanities, in the field of Turkic linguistics.[ citation needed ] Her main research interests include language contacts between Turkic and Slavic peoples and the cultures of Muslim communities.[ citation needed ]
She specializes in three areas of research:[ citation needed ]
Parzymies is also the creator and founder of Dialog Academic Publishing, a Polish publishing company started in 1992.[ citation needed ] The company specializes in publications that are related to Africa and Asia or are written by authors from the area. Fiction published includes classical Sanskrit poetry, modern Chinese poetry, and novels written by North African authors. It has also published a number of European authors. A considerable part of its output is related to religion and Oriental languages.[ citation needed ]
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