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Rafiq Tağı

Rafiq Tağı is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Rafiq Tağı rather than just read about it. In short: Rafiq Tağı, born Rafig Nazir oglu Taghiyev (5 August 1950, Khoshchobanly, Masally District, Azerbaijan — 23 November 2011, Baku, Azerbaijan) was an Azerbaijani short story writer and a journalist who worked for Sanat newspaper until police arrested him and Sanat editor Samir Sadagatoglu for writing "Europe and Us", an article that was deemed to be critical of Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was considered…

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Reference excerpt

Rafiq Tağı, born Rafig Nazir oglu Taghiyev (5 August 1950, Khoshchobanly, Masally District, Azerbaijan — 23 November 2011, Baku, Azerbaijan) was an Azerbaijani short story writer and a journalist who worked for Sanat newspaper until police arrested him and Sanat editor Samir Sadagatoglu for writing "Europe and Us", an article that was deemed to be critical of Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was considered to be inciting racial hatred and sentenced to three years in prison. Released on a presidential pardon some months later he was assassinated in a car park.

Biography Rafig Nazir oglu Taghiyev was born in the village of Khoshchobanly, Masally District, Azerbaijan. He graduated from the Azerbaijan State Medical University and worked as a physician in rural parts of Azerbaijan. He later received a degree in cardiology from the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. Beginning in 1990, he worked at the Emergency Medical Services Hospital in Baku. A journalist whose works had been published in both Azerbaijani and foreign media, Tağı over his career became particularly known as an author of six collected prose books and a number of controversial articles. His membership at the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan of which he had been a member for 16 years was revoked after he wrote a critical essay analysing social and political views of the renowned Soviet-era Azerbaijani poet Samad Vurghun. Another article entitled Europe and Us published in 2006 in the newspaper Sanat provoked protests in Azerbaijan and Iran, as well as a fatwa pronouncing the death penalty from Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani. In 2006, some residents of the village of Nardaran, "a stronghold for Shia Islamists" in Azerbaijan, during their demonstrations demanded severe punishment for Tağı. Protesters carried placards saying "Death to Israel!" and all speeches were met with a loud "Allahu Akbar!" Hajiagha Nuriyev, chairman of Azerbaijan's unregistered Islamic Party, said that Tağı was "acting on behalf of international Zionism and Armenia". In 2007 the Azerbaijan Court of Appeals in absentia of the culprits rejected the appeals request filed by Tağı and editor Sadagatoglu. He was accused of promoting religious hatred and was sentenced to four years in jail for instigating religious hostility. After 8 months of imprisonment with a presidential pardon, he was released. He was a member of the Free Writers Union, and regular writer of Alatoran literary magazine.

Death Rafiq Tağı died on 23 November 2011 after being stabbing on 19 November in a car park near his home. In an interview he gave from the hospital just one day prior to his death, Rafiq Tağı stated his stabbing could be an act of retaliation for the article Iran and the Inevitability of Globalization he had published on 10 November 2011 and in which he criticised Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for "discrediting Islam." Tağı's family voiced concerns that no one had been held liable for the murder a week after the event and informed of their intention to sue the Ministry of Health and the chief physician of the clinic where Tağı had died for negligence causing death. In addition, they announced their plans to seek political asylum in a Western country. On 15 December 2011, the European Parliament passed a resolution in which it condemned the murder of Rafiq Tağı.

Reaction

In Azerbaijan Investigative journalist and Tağı's fellow columnist Khadija Ismayilova blames the assassination on radical Islamists who are working closely with Iran's secret intelligence. Whistleblower Elshad Abdullayev believes Ministry of National Security general Akif Chovdarov is responsible for the assassination.

In Iran The Iranian embassy in Baku denied all allegations that Iran was somehow linked to the assassination and called them "ungrounded." On his website, ayatollah Mohammad Javad Lankarani, the son of the fatwa-issuing ayatollah Mohammad Fazel Lankarani who himself died in 2007, published a statement in which he praised the killers for "sending the reprobate who insulted the prophet to hell" and was assured that Muslim youths would not let "the intrigues of global imperialism and Zionism be carried on." In this case, the dissident jurist, Mohsen Kadivar, engaged in a heated moral and legal debate over the legitimacy of the Fatwa with the son of the recently deceased Ayatollah. He argued that the Fatwa's extraterritorial enforcement was inhumane, sacrilegious, and unconstitutional.

See also Islamism List of journalists killed in Europe

Bibliography Kadivar, Mohsen. Blasphemy and Apostasy in Islam: Debates in Shi'a Jurisprudence. United Kingdom, Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

References

External links Official website Azerbaijani Journalist Targeted By Fatwa Dies After Stabbing Attack, RFE, 2011 Hamneshine Bahar: Rafiq Tağı and horrific story of Apostasy on YouTube Azerbaïdjan : Assassinat d’un écrivain Azéri par le décret religieux d’un grand Ayatollah R.Tagi. Europe and We (2006) -- full text of the essay in Azeri with Russian translation Иран против Азербайджана: война спецслужб

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Rafiq Tağı

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Rafiq Tağı claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Rafiq Tağı before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Rafiq Tağı ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Rafiq Tağı

In research: Rafiq Tağı appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Rafiq Tağı in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Rafiq Tağı is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1950 births, 2011 deaths, 20th-century Azerbaijani medical doctors, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Rafiq Tağı outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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