{"title":"The Jewish–Tat Relations and the Issue of Mountain Jews Identity (Part II)","authors":"Przemysław Adamczewski","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-20220203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-20220203","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This is the second part of the contribution published in <em>Iran and the Caucasus</em>, vol. 25(1) (2021): 29–47.</p>","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"53 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138496521","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":"Some Remarks on the Term Abxāz in Classical Persian Literature and Historiography","authors":"A. Zeyghami","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-20220204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-20220204","url":null,"abstract":"This article is devoted to the analysis of the occurrences of the term Abxāz in Classical Persian literature and Iranian historiography. Under the term Abxāz, generally, Persian poets and writers implied the whole territory of Georgia and not only proper Abkhazia located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. New points have been made about the word tamūk in Luγat-i furs by Asadī Ṭūsī, as well as the Abkhaz language, based on a quatrain (rubā‘ī) by Xāqānī.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"144 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86403050","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 Oil Policy and Independence of the Kurdistan Regional Government","authors":"Ebrahim Abbassi, S. Salehi, Mohammad Salehi","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-20220206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-20220206","url":null,"abstract":"The oil policy of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is mainly focused on achieving full political independence besides pursuing other interests. The Kurdistan region of Iraq contains approximately one third of the total proven energy resources of the country. This raises the question of why Kurdistan’s oil policy could not be used as a leverage for its independence in the Middle East? The main hypothesis of this research is that the complex system of the Middle East is not in line with the ultimate goal of the KRG, which is separation from Iraq and the establishment of an independent Kurdish state. The research findings show that the independence of the KRG faces severe challenges in the complex sphere of the Middle East. These challenges are mainly rooted in the weakness of the KRG in regional networking and also in the activities of terrorist groups in the region.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81753990","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":"In the Spirit of Zarathustra: Intertextual Legitimation in Pahlavi Literature","authors":"M. Weinreich","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-20220201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-20220201","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigates the intertextual relationship between the Pahlavi “Story of Jōišt ī Friyān” and the biography of Zarathustra, as recorded in pre-modern Zoroastrian sources. The first part of the study contains the presentation and analysis of intertextual fragments within the Pahlavi tale, which can be discerned as referencing the Zoroastrian prophet’s life and deeds, forging an associative link between the central character of the story and the image of Zarathustra. The second part provides an attempt to explain why the author of the story might have considered such a link necessary and what could have inspired him to choose Zarathustra’s image and associate it with his protagonist.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84221699","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 an Enigmatic Deity with a Dragon on a Chorasmian Silver Bowl from Dagestan","authors":"Matteo Compareti","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-20220202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-20220202","url":null,"abstract":"At least five specimens constituting the small group of Chorasmian silver vessels present an image of the Mesopotamian goddess Nana who was very popular in pre-Islamic Central Asia. One silver bowl found in Dagestan at present kept in the State Hermitage Museum is embellished with the image of a deity sitting on a dragon whose identity is not clear. Scholars considered this deity to be a woman because of her clean-shaven face, long hair and garments. However, Kushan rulers had been representing on their coins one Zoroastrian god as a woman since the 2nd century A.D. He was Tir, the god of the planet Mercury who had connections to the Avestan rain god Tishtrya. Despite the problematic associations between Tir and Tishtrya, Central Asian peoples had superimposed this Zoroastrian god to Mesopotamian Nabu who was the patron of scribes and the original “husband” of Nana. Nabu’s symbolic animal was a dragon that is very similar to the one on the Chorasmian bowl from Dagestan. Most likely, Chorasmian artists kept reproducing on their metalwork iconographic elements that originated in Mesopotamia after adapting them to their own religious and cultural sphere.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"111 11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76133101","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 Emergence of the Iranian Apocalypse Between the Sixth and Seventh Centuries","authors":"Domenico Agostini","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-20220103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-20220103","url":null,"abstract":"The Iranian apocalyptic texts belong to the body of Pahlavi literature that was written in the ninth and tenth centuries. While most scholarship points to the early Islamic reworking and redaction of these apocalyptic accounts, which is clearly evident in the overlapping narratives, various late Sasanian historical and apocalyptic material still seems to be detectable.\u0000This article reassesses the identification of some Iranian apocalyptic figures, in order to discuss the origin of some literary models that were likely shared with some coeval neighboring traditions. It will thereby situate the emergence of Iranian apocalyptic ideas between the end of the sixth to the first decades of the seventh century.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77876255","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":"L’épopée caucasienne des Nartes. Cycles d’Ossétie, Traduits de l’ossète et commentés par Lora Arys-Djanaïéva et Iaroslav Lebedynsky, Paris: “L’Harmattan”, 2019.—325 pp.","authors":"Matteo De Chiara","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-20220109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-20220109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76561283","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 Ethno-Religious Contradictions as Threats to the North Caucasus Stability and Integration","authors":"M. Popov","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-20220107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-20220107","url":null,"abstract":"Latent ethno-religious conflicts remain the most destructive of contemporary threats to the North Caucasus integration and stability. The fundamental issue that requires a constructive solution in order to ensure security in this region is the promotion of ethnic peace and tolerance. This research aims to analyse how deep-rooted ethno-religious contradictions can affect regional stability and conflict resolution strategy. The paper attempts to answer an essential research question that unresolved protracted contradictions have fundamental consequences for the North Caucasus. The growing regional disintegration, deep social inequalities, and ineffective institutions all add significantly to the appeal of radical Islamist ideology, erode trust in the state, and constitute a key reason the North Caucasian conflicts are so difficult to resolve. All of these increase the citizens’ alienation from the state and promote the search for radical alternatives, including ISIS and jihad: ethno-religious radicalism becomes a major conflict driver.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84791523","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":"New Persian yādgār","authors":"Nadereh Nafisi","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-20220106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-20220106","url":null,"abstract":"The paper is devoted to the analysis of the specific terminological usage of a polysemantic lexeme, yādgār (generally meaning today “souvenir, keepsake; remembrance”), in New Persian of the Classical period, particularly in the Shahnama by Firdausi (10th century).","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79353180","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":"Armeno-Iranica, Indo-Europaeica, and Gathica","authors":"Martin Schwartz","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-20220104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-20220104","url":null,"abstract":"I shall review the various etymological proposals for Armenian skay/hskay ‘giant’/ To be refuted is the pervasive hypothesis that the collocation Paroyr Skayordi represents the name of a Scyth (Assyrian Partatua, Greak Προτοθύης) who is supposedly ‘son (ordi) of a Saka (skay)’, whereby skay ‘giant’ is taken from Saka- ‘Scyth’. Then it will be discussed whether and how skay comes from Middle Persian kay, which will entail an exploration of the history of the latter word, from Avestan kauui- to various Middle Iranian forms, and relevant attesttaions in the Manichean Book of the Giants. With rejection of the explanations hitherto for the s- of the skay, a new account will be offered, with further discussion of the h- of hskay. APPENDIX I will set forth the Proto-Indo-European root *kelĝ and its intricate semantics. APPENDIX II will be devoted to phonic encryption in the Gathas.","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81596445","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}