{"title":"A Corpus-Based Study of Alignment in Literary Gorani (Based on the Manuscript 11092 of Dīwān-i Mawlawī)","authors":"Saeed Karami, Saloumeh Gholami","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02704009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02704009","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines alignment in Literary Gorani by analysing an unknown Gorani manuscript titled ‘Dīwān-i Mawlawī’ (Manuscript 11092), which is housed at the Āstān-e Qods-e Raḍavī library. The paper has two main objectives. Following Haig (2017) regarding the extent of the micro-variation of ergativity within Iranian languages, the paper explores strategies of interrelated subsystems such as case, indexation, verbal suffixes, and pronominal clitic systems to discover whether Gorani manifests an accusative or an ergative pattern. This helps us to answer the second more general question in this study: is it even possible to consider Literary Gorani as a written form of Hawrami?","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Written Torah and Oral Torah in the Study of Hasidism","authors":"Daniel Reiser","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02704006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02704006","url":null,"abstract":"The traditional academic approach to the study of the Hasidic movement in Judaism has tended to be based primarily on texts. Although book learning is important to Hasidim, the heart of the movement is living experience, in particular oral teaching of the Hasidic understanding and application of Torah by the Rebbe, most often in the Yiddish vernacular. Failure adequately to take account of this “oral Torah” (borrowing the term commonly applied to the Talmud) has led to inadequate, even erroneous conclusions about Hasidism and its tenets and history.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"66 S1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Participation of Armenians in the Mongol Ilkhanate’s Invasion of Syria (1259–1260)","authors":"Aram Hovhannisyan","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02704010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02704010","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the participation of Cilician Armenians in the Mongol Ilkhanate’s Syrian invasions in 1259–1260. Drawing upon data from mediaeval sources and various perspectives in scholarly literature, this paper addresses the following key questions: 1. Where were the troops of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and their allied countries consolidated? 2. To what extent did the troops of the Armenian King Het‘um I join forces with the Mongols? The inquiry also presents the specific details of the capture of Syrian cities and explores the likelihood of Armenian troops’ involvement in these operations. In the final section, the paper delves into the events surrounding the famous Battle of Ain-Jalut and examines the potential participation of Armenians in this pivotal conflict, in which the allies suffered defeat and were subsequently compelled to retreat.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"America’s Turkish Lobby against Armenian Genocide Recognition","authors":"Erin Currie, Emil S. Aslan","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02704018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02704018","url":null,"abstract":"While much ink has been spilled on the Armenian-American Lobby’s efforts to achieve the formal recognition of the tragic events in Anatolia of 1915–1918 as a Genocide, little is known about how the Turkish Lobby sought to prevent such recognition. This article is the first in the literature to offer a systematic account of how the Turkish Lobby advocated in the United States to prevent the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"61 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scythians and ξεινικὰ νόμαια","authors":"Alexander Sinitsyn","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02704003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02704003","url":null,"abstract":"Herodotus’ logos about Scythians and <jats:styled-content xml:lang=\"el-Grek\">ξεινικὰ νόμαια</jats:styled-content>—amusing and ominous, as is typical of him, yet insightful—consists of two stories about the sad lots of Anacharsis and Scyles; the story begins with a statement that Scythians shun practicing customs of other peoples, particularly those of Hellas; it ends as an adage asserting the initial statement: that is the way Scythians guard their customs (4.76–80). Herodotus describes the barbarian neighbors’ attitude towards foreign and alien customs. But these two examples are about their own, Scythian, heroes or rather antiheroes. Both the philhellenes forswear their native religion and customs and abandon themselves to Greek ritual practices; therefore, they suffer for their behavior. The author of the article holds that Herodotus was sympathetic to Scythians’ resentment against <jats:styled-content xml:lang=\"el-Grek\">ξεινικὰ νόμαια</jats:styled-content>. The Greek historian speaks about piety and patriotism of Scythians, who believe that the offence against <jats:styled-content xml:lang=\"el-Grek\">νόμαια</jats:styled-content> is a threat to the very foundation of their culture.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"65 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Armenia and Iran","authors":"Carlo G. Cereti","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02704002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02704002","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the worship of Anāhitā in Western Asia examining some of the ideas put forward by James R. Russel in his volume on <jats:italic>Zoroastrianism in Armenia</jats:italic> in the light of more recent discussions about the role played by the goddess in Armenian religion before the conversion of the country to Christianity. While the evidence from more ancient periods has also been briefly presented, specific attention is given to Anāhīd’s worship in the Sasanian period and to the devotion of Narseh to this divinity. Finally, Middle Persian personal names containing the theonym Anāhīd are briefly introduced and discussed, showing that this important divinity is underrepresented in Sasanian and post-Sasanian onomastics.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"61 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Unknown Source on Proselytism among the Udis","authors":"Victoria Arakelova, Hayk Hakobyan","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02704011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02704011","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the English translation with commentaries of some interesting passages from the unpublished manuscript by Abgar Payazat, an Armenian-Udi intellectual of the beginning of the 20th century. He particularly describes episodes of proselytism among the Udis from the Armenian Apostolic Church to the Russian Orthodoxy. The manuscript itself, is an attempt of compiling a grammar of the Udi language in Armenian.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"66 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Prologue to Armenian Toponymy","authors":"Garnik S. Asatrian, Gohar G. Hakobian","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02704013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02704013","url":null,"abstract":"The study of Armenian toponyms constitutes a relatively underexplored and insufficiently addressed domain within the field of Armenian Studies. Unfortunately, the seminal works by Joseph Marquart (1901) and, especially, Heinrich Hübschmann (1904), supplemented later with insightful publications by Kapancyan (1940; 1956), hitherto remain the sole substantial contributions to the realm of Armenian toponymy. Subsequent to that period and up to the present day, only sporadic researches have been done on this subject. The present paper aims at providing a brief overview of the general outlines of the Armenian toponymic system.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"65 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Big’ and ‘Small’ in the Toponymy of the Swāt Valley","authors":"Matteo De Chiara","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02704014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02704014","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I focus on thirty toponyms from the Swāt Valley, Pakistan, that incorporate the concepts of ‘big’ and ‘small’. In this context, ‘big’ is represented by three different adjectives, <jats:italic>loy</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>luth</jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>mahā</jats:italic>, while for ‘small’ we find two different suffixes, -<jats:italic>ṛay</jats:italic> and -<jats:italic>g/k/xay</jats:italic>, as well as the adjectives <jats:italic>woṛ</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>waṛukay</jats:italic>. Among other things, I also propose a new analysis of one of the toponyms already studied in my 2020 work on the <jats:italic>Toponymy of the Swāt Valley</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Altangurai</jats:italic>.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"64 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Armenians Themselves Burnt Their Own Houses and Desecrated Their Own Churches","authors":"Aldo Ferrari","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02704017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02704017","url":null,"abstract":"Luigi Villari’s book <jats:italic>Fire and Sword in the Caucasus</jats:italic>, published in London in 1906, is widely quoted by the scholars who study the history of South Caucasus at the time of the first Russian Revolution in 1905. After a short introduction about the interesting figure of this author, the first part of the article will take into consideration Villari’s peculiar attitude toward the Armenians. The larger part of the article will consider his first-hand description of the massacres perpetrated by the Azeris (Tartars) in the region of Nakhichevan. As a matter of fact, Luigi Villari’s testimony of the tragic events of 1905 is more interesting than ever to understand the origins of a contrast that continues—even if in a deeply different situation—to stain with blood the relationship between Armenians and the South Caucasian Turks.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"61 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}