The article refutes the revisionist approach proposed by Azerbaijani official historiography and in particular by the current Vice-president of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Nalia Mamedali Gizi Velikhanli (born 1940). Dr. Velikhanli claims that the lands located North of the river valleys of the Lower Araxes and Lower Kur (the territory of the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan), while under domination of the Arab Caliphate (mid-7th – early 10th C.) were also named by Early Medieval Islamic authors “as the Upper Azerbaijan (Northern) or just Azerbaijan”. The author speculates that the Arabic texts could be interpreted differently, based on linguistic connotations and peculiarities, and argues that the Early Medieval Islamic texts could mean a geographic location different from what Velikhanli specifies.
The Meshak newspaper published in Tbilisi printed diverse articles with valuable information not only about Armenia, but also about public life in neighboring countries. Among these articles, those of the renowned Iranian-Armenian novelist, publicist, and ethnographer Raffi (Hakob Melik-Hakobyan, 1835-1888) stand out p...
The term "Haykabanutyun" often comes across in scientific literature and fiction. The concept of "Haykabanutyun," however, hasn't been defined so far and we cannot explain what did Haykabanutyun/Haykaban specifically mean.
The author tackles this concern in this article, based on diverse dictionaries and other sources....
The aim of this article is to conduct a source-critical and epigraphic analysis of sacred texts inscribed in the Arabic script on samples of weapons and armor from «the Weapons and Protective Equipment» collection of the National Central Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan. This study introduces into scholarly circula...
Ш. С. Калиева, Ж. М. Белтенов· Journal of Oriental Studies· 0 citations
The article is devoted to a comprehensive lexical analysis of M. Simonyan’s English-Armenian dictionary, “Small Dictionary from the English Language, Translated into the Armenian Dialect” (Madras, 1803). Using the example of the first English-Armenian dictionary, the study analyzes the qualitative and structural featur...
Վանուհի Բաղրամյան· Language and Linguistics· 0 citations
Ghuloghli Yerznkatsi was erroneously considered one of the 15th-century authors in Armenology, whereas, in fact, he was a 16th century bard (second half) and wrote his lamentation not about the Erznka earthquake of 1482, but rather about the disaster of 1584, which is proved not only by the Samuel Anetsi Chronology, bu...
The article draws attention to documents in the archive of Catholicos Megerditch Khrimian, which are preserved in the Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran Armenian Institute of Old Manuscripts. The paper highlights particularly a number of documents which attest the harsh conditions of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the lat...
