Iran and the Caucasus

Papers
(The TQCC of Iran and the Caucasus is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
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Light, Time, Motion and Impulse in the Zoroastrian Pahlavi Texts3
The “Mouthless People”: Some Remarks on the Shahr Yeri Statue-Stela Complex, Iran2
Escape from the Land of the Dead: Nart Sagas, Divine Comedy, and the Journey Through the Afterlife1
Development Stages of Islamic Movements in the Pashtun Tribal Environment: The Case of the Rawshaniyya and Beyond1
Archaeological Evidence for Persian Elites in the Fifth Century B.C.1
The City of Brass and Alexander’s Narrow Grave: Translation and Commentary of Kafas added to Manuscript M7709 (Part 1)1
The ‘House of Song’, the *‘House of Clay’, Arm. gerezman, and Caucaso-Albanica1
Manifestation of the Yezidi Identity1
Relocating the Prophet’s Image: Narrative Motifs and Local Appropriation of the Zarathustra Legend in Pre- and Early Islamic Iran (Part II - North-West Iran)1
Iran’s Security Interests and Policies in the South Caucasus1
The Archaeological Expeditions to Afghanistan (1949-1951) by the American Museum of Natural History (New York) and their Orphaned Archaeological Collections1
Fluctuations in Iran-Russia Relations During the Past Four Decades1
Parthian moγ and Middle Persian moγ/mow in Light of Earlier Eastern and Western Iranian Sources1
COVID-19: Threat and Response in Iran1
On the Border between Urartu and Mannea: Goyje Qalʽeh, an Iron Age Site in Northern Iran1
The Thorny Road to Caucasian Albania In Memory of Wolfgang Schulze (1953–2020):Oya ohoc nowte hil’al bownehē hē-hanayoḳe1
The Ancient Scythian Kings according to Herodotus1
Relocating the Prophet’s Image: Narrative Motifs and Local Appropriation of the Zarathustra Legend in Pre- and Early Islamic Iran (Part I – East Iran)1
Lambdacism and the Development of Old Iranian *tin Pashto1
The Rekom Shrine in North Ossetia-Alania and its Annual Ceremony1
A Note on Tree Worship in the Zaza Folk Beliefs1
1908 Tabriz Uprising through French Writings0
The Mazdean Image of the Bird and its ‘Earthly’ Egg in Light of Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride, ch. 47, and its Later Continuations0
Lankarān0
Preliminary Material0
An Agenda for the Study of the Jesus Letter0
A Triangle of Interests: Azerbaijan, Iran and Israel0
The Early History of the Syriac Liturgy. Growth, Adaptation and Inculturation , by Baby Varghese0
Saloumeh Gholami (ed.), Endangered Iranian Languages, Wiesbaden: “Ludwig Reichert Verlag”, 2018.—122 pp.0
On the Participation of Armenians in the Mongol Ilkhanate’s Invasion of Syria (1259–1260)0
The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca, Nile Green (ed.), Oakland: “University of California Press”, 2019.—XXII + 340 pp.0
Jihad as a Form of Political Protest: Genesis and Current Status0
The Battle for Minds in Cold War Afghanistan: Outlining the United States Information Management Regime0
A Central Asian Silver Dish with a Greek Mythological Scene found in Dulan (Qinghai)0
Pierre Briant, From Cyrus to Seleukos: Studies in Achaemenid and Hellenistic History, Ancient Iran Series, vol. 5: “UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies”, 2018.—327pp.0
Editorial Preface0
On Peace Activists and Skilled Survivors0
Classical New Persian samārō/ūγ ‘mushroom’0
On Childbirth Rituals in Modern Dagestani Cities: Islam, Traditions, Innovations0
Urartian Stelae in Late Antique and Early Medieval Armenia0
H. Berberian/T. Daryaee, Reflections of Armenian Identity in History and Historiography, UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2018. —207 pp.0
Tracing the International Dimensions of Iranian Nationalism: The Era of Mohammad Reza Shah0
The Survival of Ossetians in Turkey0
Preliminary Material0
Remember the Chechens: A Process-Tracing Analysis of the Evolution of Chechen Terrorism0
Paola Orsatti, Materials for a History of the Persian Narrative Tradition. Two Characters: Farhād and Turandot, Venezia: “Edizioni Ca’Foscari”, 2020.—115 pp.0
Eros and the Pearl. The Yezidi Cosmogonic Myth at the Crossroads of Mystical Traditions , by Artur Rodziewicz0
The Story of a Lost Book: Two Recent Studies on the Khwadāynāmag0
Table of Contents0
A Copper Statuette from South-Eastern Iran (3rd Millennium B.C.)0
Sefer Yeṣirah’s Dating, Geographic Provenance and the Open Question of Its Composer’s Religious Affiliation and Identity0
Symmetry in Armenian Mediaeval Ornaments0
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.0
Some Remarks on the Term Abxāz in Classical Persian Literature and Historiography0
In the Spirit of Zarathustra: Intertextual Legitimation in Pahlavi Literature0
On a Painted Burial Jar from Tigranakert of Artsakh0
Front matter0
‘Big’ and ‘Small’ in the Toponymy of the Swāt Valley0
Back Matter0
The Abdominal Sides as Containers: Some Indo-Aryan and Iranian Denominations0
Proto-Indo-European Initial *r Revisited0
Christoph Baumer, History of the Caucasus, v. 1: At the Crossroads of Empires, London: “I. B. Tauris/Bloomsbury”, 2021—386 pp.0
James Robert Russell 700
The Demonic ‘Sub-Humanity’ of the Bears in the Mazdean Framework and Other Remarks0
Front Matter0
The Southern Boundaries of the Southern Caucasus0
Preliminary Material0
Mateusz M. Kłagisz, Ze studiów nad średnioperskim utworem Mādīgān-ī Jōszt-ī Fr(i)jān. Historia o młodzieńcu z rodu Fr(i)yānów, Kraków: “Wydawnictwo Ksiȩgarnia Academicka”, 2019.—320 pp.0
Concepts of hewād ‘Homeland’ and millat ‘Nation’ in Modern Pashto-Language Schoolbooks0
On the History of a Mysterious Word: Kurdish ēš‘ache, pain; disease’0
Акоп Овнатанян. Портреты–воспоминания о художнике , by Ирина Дзуцова0
The Jewish–Tat Relations and the Issue of Mountain Jews Identity (Part II)0
Horace and the Parthians0
Pro-Regime Posters in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan0
On the Emergence of the Iranian Apocalypse Between the Sixth and Seventh Centuries0
The History and Current Position of the Afghanistan’s Sikh Community0
The Jewish–Tat Relations and the Issue of Mountain Jews Identity (Part I)0
David Leupold, Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory, New York: “Routledge”, 2020.—249 pp.0
Pashto Radical Simple Verbs and the Linguistic Border0
Jihad as an Individual Duty (farḍ al-ʻayn) in the Ideology of Circassian Sultans (1382–1517)0
Baskin Oran, Minorities and Minority Rights in Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Present State, translated by John William Day, Boulder-Colorado: “Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.”, 2021.—275 pp.0
The Ethno-Religious Contradictions as Threats to the North Caucasus Stability and Integration0
A Prologue to Armenian Toponymy0
Armenia and Iran0
Pashtuns’ Tribal Islam: The Beginning of Written History0
Indo-Iranian *mastr̥ghan- / *mastr̥ǰhan- ‘Brain, Skull’ and its Etymology0
Hell’s Kitchen: The Banquet in the Hereafter and the Reflexion of Zoroastrian Eschatological Motifs in the Qurʾān0
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Coinage of Davit Bek, Leader of the Armenian Army in Kapan (1722-1728)0
The City of Brass and Alexander’s Narrow Grave0
A Struggle for Identity: The Ismailis in the Afghan War (1979-1989)0
The City of Brass and Alexander’s Narrow Grave: Translation and Commentary of Kafas added to Manuscript M7709 (Part 2)0
Evidentiality in the Rikvani Dialect of Andi0
Early Safavid Campaigns in the Caucasus0
An Eastern Iranian Lunar Deity and Her Epithet0
Between Zoroastrian Mytho-History and Islamic Hagiography: Trajectories of Literary Exchange0
A Corpus-Based Study of Alignment in Literary Gorani (Based on the Manuscript 11092 of Dīwān-i Mawlawī)0
Pluralized Collectives in Young Avestan: A Morphosyntactic Explanation of the Replacement of the YAv. nom.-acc.pl.n. Endings and by -āiš, and -īš0
Reconsidering the Turkish–Islamic Synthesis0
The Oil Policy and Independence of the Kurdistan Regional Government0
Seventy-Two and The One Nation0
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity. Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250-7500
An Etymological Note on YAv. mūra-: Is it Really “Idiot, Stupid, Foolish”?0
George Nedungatt, Covenant Life, Law and Ministry according to Aphrahat, Rome: “Edizioni Orientalia Christiana”, 2018.—344 pp.0
America’s Turkish Lobby against Armenian Genocide Recognition0
Philipp Ammon, Georgien zwischen Eigenstaatlichkeit und russischer Okkupation, Frankfurt a. M.: “Vittorio Klostermann Verlag”, 2020.—238 pp.0
Preliminary Material0
Preliminary Material0
The Talishis on Opposite Banks of the Araxes River: Identity Issues0
Håkon F. Teigen, The Manichaean Church in Kellis, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 100, Brill: Leiden–Boston, 2021.—355pp.0
Hunza Matters: Bordering and Ordering between Ancient and New Silk Roads, by Hermann Kreutzmann0
Illegal Trafficking of Ammunition Along the Iran–Caucasian Border in the Early 20th Century0
Nathan Witkamp, Tradition and Innovation. Baptismal Rite and Mystagogy in Theodore of Mopsuestia and Narsai of Nisibis (SvigChr 149), Leiden-Boston: “Brill”, 2018.—XXX + 417 pp.0
L’iconographie et le statut de femmes sur les bas-reliefs sassanides (224-651 apr. J.-C.)0
“Other” Strategies in the Eastern Caucasus (Part II): Typology0
The Armenians Themselves Burnt Their Own Houses and Desecrated Their Own Churches0
Just an Etymological Note: The Case of Megrelian aӡmax-i, azmax-i ‘puddle, pool, pond’0
Ubykh Personal Names0
On an Enigmatic Deity with a Dragon on a Chorasmian Silver Bowl from Dagestan0
Iranian Lexical Material in the Caucasus0
Alberto Tiburcio, Muslim–Christian Politics in Safavid Iran, Edinburgh: “Edinburgh University Press”, 2020.—232 pp.0
Judaism in the Kitchen: Ritual Space of the Mountain Jewish Women of Dagestan0
Preliminary Material0
“Other” Strategies in the Eastern Caucasus (Part I): Data from Udi0
The Talibs or the Taliban in Afghanistan0
Written Torah and Oral Torah in the Study of Hasidism0
The Iranian Sound Change *w- > *γw- in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands and a New Etymology for Gāndhārī and Sanskrit guśura(ka)-0
The Elamite Version of A2Ha and the Verb vidiyā- in Old Persian0
New Persian yādgār0
Traditionalism and Demodernisation0
An Unknown Source on Proselytism among the Udis0
Whose Past and Whose Future: Free Love and Love Marriage among “Kafirs” of the Hindukush in an Early Nineteenth-Century Persian Ethnography0
Samuel N. C. Lieu, Glen L. Thompson (eds.), The Church of the East in Central Asia and China (China and the Mediterranean World, 1), Turnhout: “Brepols”, 2020.—xiii + 245 pp.0
A Proud Milestone:0
A Matter of Metals: Finno-Ugric and Northern Iranian0
Iranian Religious Elements in Chinese Medieval Art: Remarks on “Zoroastrian Protective Spirits”0
Some Remarks on the Urartian Toponym Dara(ni) and Its Possible Identification with the Site of Solak-1/Varsak in Kotayk Region, Armenia0
Iranian Composite Creatures between the Caucasus and Western China: The Case of the So-Called Simurgh0
Tubo-Sogdian Relations along the Silk Road: On an Enigmatic Gold Plaque from Dulan (Qinghai, China)0
Two Passing Clouds: The Rainy Season of Mīrzā Bīdil and Amānat Rāy’s Persian Version of Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.200
Scythians and ξεινικὰ νόμαια0
Ludwig Paul (with the cooperation of Pejman Firoozbakhsh), An Analytical Bibliography of New Iranian Languages and Dialects. Based on Persian Publications since ca. 1980, Wiesbaden: “Ludwig Reichert V0
Far away from Pārsa: Empire, Borders, and Ideology in Achaemenid Bactria0
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Front Matter0
Laṭxāna (1950–1954), an Intellectual Commune in Quetta (Baluchistan)0
Martyrdom of the Sukiaseans (Mytho-Ritual Aspect)0
Annika Törne, Dersim – Geographie der Erinnerungen: Eine Untersuchung von Narrativen über Verfolgung und Gewalt, Berlin/Boston: “De Gruyter”, 2019.—325 pp.0
Armeno-Iranica, Indo-Europaeica, and Gathica0
What is the Bundahišn?0
Preliminary Material0
Three Ritual Steps between India and Iran0
Again on the Demoness Šaša0
H. Berberian, Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds, Oakland: “University of California Press”, 2019.—320 pp.0
On Criticism of S. L. Nikolayev/S. A. Starostin, A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary0
The Survival of an Ancient Term in Talishi0
Metal Quivers from Hasanlu0
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