Iran and the Caucasus

30/03/2024

Iran and the Caucasus - 28.1

"Volume 28 (2024): Issue 1 (Mar 2024)" published on 22 Mar 2024 by Brill.

30/11/2023

Iran and the Caucasus 27.4-5.
Special Volume - Festschrift dedicated to James Russell's 70th Jubilee.
Well, what is new about us.
"Iran and the Caucasus" has now 5 issues per year instead of previously published 4.
We are becoming part of De Gruyter-Brill, since the two giants join creating world's largest humanities publisher.
Finally (last but not least!), we established the Iran and the Caucasus Monograph Series, its first two volumes have just been published and four monographs will appear next year.
So far, see the I&C 27.4-5 TOC.
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26/05/2023

Well, we have established a new monograph series with Brill. Now, "Iran and the Caucasus" is not only a journal. First two volumes will appear soon. Stay tuned.
Monograph Series Editor: Garnik Asatrian - Russian-Armenian University - RAU, Yerevan,
Armenia.
"Iran and the Caucasus Monographs" is a peer-reviewed book series that covers recent findings in Irano-Indian, Caucasian, Near-Eastern, Armenian, and Turkic studies.
The focus will be on linguistics and philology, history,archaeology, anthropology, history of religions, art history, aswell as ethnopolitical and security issues concerning the said
regions. The Series includes short monographs presentingoriginal research, revised high-quality theses, commissionededited volumes, festschrifts, opera minora of prominent scholars, and scholarly translations with commentaries andappropriate apparatus. The predominant language of the
volumes in the Series is English, but German and Frenchsubmissions are welcome too.

10/05/2023

I am happy to share free access to "Iran and the Caucasus" 27.1 (2023).

"Volume 27 (2023): Issue 1 (Apr 2023)" published on 13 Apr 2023 by Brill.

21/03/2023

Iran and the Caucasus 27.1 is coming soon.
Fascinating as usual.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
HISTORY, CULTURE
Megan Cifarelli, Manuel Castelluccia – Metal Quivers from Hasanlu
Birgül Açıkyıldız – Manifestation of the Yezidi Identity: Cemetery, Symbol, and Memory
Mateusz M.P. Kłagisz, Marta Drozdowska – Concepts of hewād ‘Homeland’ and millat ‘Nation’ in Modern Pashto-Language Schoolbooks
LINGUISTICS
Antonio Panaino – The Demonic ‘Sub-Humanity’ of the Bears in the Mazdean Framework and Other Remarks
Matteo De Chiara, Daniel Septfonds – Pashto Radical Simple Verbs and the Linguistic Border
HISTORICO-POLITICAL ISSUES
Charles Ganier – 1908 Tabriz Uprising through French Writings.
Katja Mielke – On Peace Activists and Skilled Survivors: Afghan Exiles and Transnational History-Making from Below.
Book Reviews
Hermann Kreutzmann, Hunza Matters: Bordering and Ordering between Ancient and New Silk Roads, Wiesbaden: “Harrassowitz”, 2020. ––570 pp. (review by Matthias Weinreich).

16/01/2023

Find the list of the top journals in the field of Iranian Studies and Persian Studies.

23/11/2022

Cumulative TABLE OF CONTENTS of Iran and the Caucasus 26.1-4 (2022).
Articles
HISTORY, CULTURE
Marco Ferrario – Far away from Pārsa: Empire, Borders, and Ideology in Achaemenid Bactria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Nasir Eskandari, Mojgan Shafiee, Ali Akbar Mesgar, Federico Zorzi,
Massimo Vidale – A Copper Statuette from South-Eastern Iran (3rd
Millennium B.C.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Domenico Agostini – On the Emergence of the Iranian Apocalypse
Between the Sixth and Seventh Centuries . . . . . . . . . . 32
Matthias Weinreich – In the Spirit of Zarathustra: Intertextual Legitimation in Pahlavi Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Matteo Compareti – On an Enigmatic Deity with a Dragon on a Chorasmian Silver Bowl from Dagestan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Przemysław Adamczewski – The Jewish-Tat Relations and the Issue of Mountain Jews Identity (Part II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Amir Zeyghami – Some Remarks on the Term Abxāz in Classical Persian Literature and Historiography . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Paolo Ognibene – Escape from the Land of the Dead: Nart Sagas, Divine Comedy, and the Journey Through the Afterlife . . . . . . . . 201
Antonio Panaino – The Mazdean Image of the Bird and its ‘Earthly’ Egg in Light of Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride, ch. 47, and its Later Continuations 217
Mehmet Erbudak, Armen Kyurkchyan – Symmetry in Armenian Mediaeval Ornaments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Li Sifei – Tubo-Sogdian Relations along the Silk Road: On an Enigmatic Gold Plaque from Dulan (Qinghai, China) . . . . . . . . . . 309
Sebastian Bitsch – Hell’s Kitchen: The Banquet in the Hereafter and the Reflexion of Zoroastrian Eschatological Motifs in the Qurʾān . . . . 323
Alex MacFarlane – The City of Brass and Alexander’s Narrow Grave:
Translation and Commentary of Kafas added to Manuscript M7709
(Part 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Richard Foltz – The Survival of Ossetians in Turkey . . . . . . . . . 362
LINGUISTIC S
Martin Schwartz – Armeno-Iranica, Indo-Europaeica, and Gathica 51
Sara Belelli – An Etymological Note on YAv. mūra-: Is it Really “Idiot,
Stupid, Foolish”? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Nadereh Nafisi – New Persian yādgār . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Alwin Kloekhorst – Pluralized Collectives in Young Avestan: A Morphosyntactic Explanation of the Replacement of the YAv. nom.-acc.pl.n. Endings -ā ̆and -ī̆ by -āiš, -ā̊ and -īš . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Julian Kreidl – An Eastern Iranian Lunar Deity and Her Epithet . . 251
Garnik Asatrian – The Survival of an Ancient Term in Talishi . . . . 267
Yury Lander, Timur Maisak – “Other” Strategies in the Eastern Caucasus. (Part II): Typology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Marco Fattori – The Elamite Version of A2 Ha and the Verb vidiyā- in Old Persian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
John D. Bengtson, Corinna Leschber – On Criticism of S.L. Nikolayev/S.A. Starostin, A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary . . . .392
HISTORICO - POLITICAL ISSUE S
Maxim Popov – The Ethno-Religious Contradictions as Threats to the North Caucasus Stability and Integration . . . . . . . . . . 82
Ebrahim Abbassi, Seyed Javad Salehi, Mohammad Salehi – The Oil Policy and Independence of the Kurdistan Regional Government .... 183
Soli Shahvar, Anatoly Mishaev – Illegal Trafficking of Ammunition Along the Iran–Caucasian Border in the Early 20th Century . . . . 289
Victoria Arakelova – The Talishis on Opposite Banks of the Araxes River: Identity Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Arsen K. Shahinyan – The Southern Boundaries of the Southern Caucasus 418
Book Reviews
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. (review by Ervand Margaryan) . . . . . . 99
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. (review by Matteo de Chiara) . . . . 101
Håkon F. Teigen, The Manichaean Church in Kellis, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 100, Leiden–Boston: “Brill”, 2021.—355pp.
(review by Predrag Bukovec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Baskın Oran, Minorities and Minority Rights in Turkey: From the Ottoman Empireto the Present State, translated by John William Day, Boulder- 2
Colorado: “Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.”, 2021.—275 pp. (review by Fuat Dündar) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
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 Verlag”, 2022.—444 pp. (review by Amir Zeyghami) . . . 308
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. (review by Adrian C. Pirtea) . . . . 425

12/08/2022

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"Volume 26 (2022): Issue 3 (Aug 2022)" published on 10 Aug 2022 by Brill.

28/03/2022

TOC Iran and the Caucasus 26.1 (2022)
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"Iran and the Caucasus" published on by Brill.

26/03/2022

Finally, the complete set.
Iran and the Caucasus - 25.

18/03/2022

IRAN AND THE CAUCASUS 26.1 (2022)
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articles

HISTORY, CULTURE
Marco Ferrario - Far away from Pārsa: Empire, Borders, and Ideology in Achaemenid Bactria
Nasir Eskandari, Mojgan Shafiee, Ali Akbar Mesgar, Federico Zorzi, Massimo Vidale - A Copper Statuette from South-Eastern Iran (3rd Millennium B.C.)
Domenico Agostini - On the Emergence of the Iranian Apocalypse Between the Sixth and Seventh Centuries

LINGUISTICS
Martin Schwartz - Armeno-Iranica, Indo-Europaeica, and Gathica
Sara Belelli - An Etymological Note on YAv. mūra-: Is it Really “Idiot, Stupid, Foolish”?
Nadereh Nafisi - New Persian yādgār

HISTORICO-POLITICAL ISSUES
Maxim Popov - The Ethno-Religious Contradictions as Threats to the North Caucasus Stability and Integration

Book Reviews
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. (review by Ervand Margaryan)
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. (review by Matteo de Chiara).

19/01/2022

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25/11/2021

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"Volume 25 (2021): Issue 4 (Nov 2021)" published on 13 Nov 2021 by Brill.

27/10/2021

31/08/2021

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"Volume 25 (2021): Issue 3 (Aug 2021)" published on 25 Aug 2021 by Brill.

18/06/2021

Free Access to 25 Selected Articles on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of "Iran and the Caucasus".
25 Years of is now available for free through Brill Publishing. The book is made of a collection of articles from the journal archive, specially selected by Editors.
Get your copy here: http://ow.ly/Of5D50Fda4c

08/06/2021

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06/05/2021

"IRAN AND THE CAUCASUS" - 25 SERIES.
LECTURE 1.
Prof. Giusto Traina (Université Paris-Sorbonne), “Yazdgird I, Wahrām V, and the End of Greater Armenia”

23/04/2021

IRAN and the CAUCASUS – 25
Series of Online Lectures

IRAN and the CAUCASUS international journal (Brill: Leiden-Boston) and Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, launch the Series of open on-line lectures by scholars of various fields of Oriental Studies, dedicated to the 25-th Anniversary of the journal.
The Series will be opened by Prof. Giusto Traina (Université Paris-Sorbonne) with the lecture “Yazdgird I, Wahrām V, and the End of Greater Armenia”.
Date and time:
May 3, 2021; 17:00 (Central European Times zone)/19:00 (Yerevan Time).
Link: https://meet.google.com/hag-ognh-hbk?fbclid=IwAR3cGYm7KkVQWN6TC4KmonWlKUPlyb5-vIhgrwB-6ex5SR4Y0AA14I24qLU
All the lectures will be later available on the website of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian-Armenian University.

Международный академический журнал IRAN and the CAUCASUS, выходящий в издетельстве Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden-Boston) под редакцией Г.С. Асатряна, и Институт востоковедения Российско-Армянского Университета, Ереван, организуют серию онлайн-лекций ученых-востоковедов, посвященную 25-лeтнему юбилею журнала.
Серию открывает профессор Джусто Траина (Университет Сорбонна) лекцией “Yazdgird I, Wahrām V, and the End of Greater Armenia”.
Дата и время: 3 мая 2021; 17:00 (цетральноевропейское время)/19:00 (ереванское время).
Ссылка: https://meet.google.com/hag-ognh-hbk?fbclid=IwAR3cGYm7KkVQWN6TC4KmonWlKUPlyb5-vIhgrwB-6ex5SR4Y0AA14I24qLU
Все лекции в дальнейшем будут доступны на сайте Института востоковедения Российско-Армянского Университета.

20/03/2021

12/03/2021

A Proud Milestone:
Twenty-five Years of Iran and the Caucasus

Editorial Note by the Editor-in-Chief

With this current 25th volume, Iran and the Caucasus marks a significant period of its life—the years of formation, gaining weight and recognition as one of the leading academic periodicals in Oriental Studies. This may not seem like much, but for a journal emerged in one of the most turbulent and unstable parts of the globe, as a project based purely on the enthusiasm of its founder and team, twenty-five years—a quarter of a century—is a proud milestone, indeed. The conception and function of Iran and the Caucasus as a classical academic publication, enabled it to become, at the same time, a tribute to new approaches of the old problems concerning a vast geographic expanse that stretched from the Caucasus and the Near Eastern region to the Indian subcontinent: we cover almost all the fields in the humanities including history, linguistics, social anthropology, archaeology, his- tory of religions, art history, political research, and security issues among others.
Being a multidisciplinary academic forum, Iran and the Caucasus significantly contributed to the development and promotion of all these mentioned areas of knowledge. The idea of Iran and the Caucasus arouse particularly from the need to promote indigenous scholar- ship from the region itself—the North Caucasus, South Caucasian countries, Iran, Turkey, Arab states, and surrounding areas. We have staunchly avoided publishing superficial and biased materials. We are focused on the very specific task of providing quality content without compromising our values. This is probably one of the main reasons for the fast growth of the journal internationally and its popularity among the scholarly communities of the world.
Iran and the Caucasus is indexed and abstracted in almost all renown international global citation databases: Scopus; Web of Science; Academic Search Alumni Edition; Academic Search Complete; Academic Search Elite; Academic Search Premier; Academic Search Ultimate; Advanced Placement Source; Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Current Abstracts; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Core; International Security and Counter Terrorism Reference Center; Linguistic Bibliography (Online); Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies; Risk Management Reference Center; and TOC Premier.
We believe, competent and objective scholarship melded with integrity is of paramount value, a value that we desire to share as freely and as widely as possible. The main policy of Iran and the Caucasus has always been to follow this invaluable principle.
I hope that Iran and the Caucasus in the next quarter-century will continue to preserve these basic concepts and main ideals that it has pursued since the beginning. We are looking to the future with optimism and well-grounded ambition—our constantly growing portfolio contains firsthand scholarly papers penned by exceptional authors; we have a global net of readers and fans, and, what is more important, Iran and the Caucasus is run by a devoted, highly professional and vigorous international team.
I congratulate all members of the Editorial Board, my friends and colleagues, on this auspicious occasion. I am particularly grateful to my close friend and ally, one of the pillars of the journal, Prof. Uwe Bläsing, as well as Prof. Victoria Arakelova and Prof. Giusto Traina for their commitment to our common mission. I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to Brill Academic Publishers for its efficient exposure of the journal to the international audience.
Let us proceed, and may God help us!

Garnik Asatrian
Yerevan, 15th February 2021