IRAN & the CAUCASUS
Research Papers from the Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies,Yerevan
V(2001)

Table of Contents

James Russell (Harvard). Tobit God is Good: On Tobit and Iran 1
Jahanshah Derakhshani(Tehran): Some earliest Traces of the Aryan: Evidence from the 4th and 3rd Millennium B.C. 7
Artur Hambartsumian (Yerevan). The Armenian Parable “The Zoroaster’s Laughter” and the Plot of Zoroaster’s Birth in the Literary Traditions 27
Evelyn und Horst Klengel (Berlin). Ein altbabylonischer Text betreffend die Lieferung von Schilfrohr 37
Garnik Asatrian (Yerevan). Die Ethnogenese der Kurden und Frühe Armenisch-Kurdische Kontakte 41
Hayrapet Margarian (Yerevan). The Nomads and Ethno-Political Realities of Transcaucasia in 11th-14th centuries 75
Magomet Gasanov (Makhachkala). On Christianity in Dagestan 79
Armen Ayvazian (Yerevan). The Secret Meeting of Armenians on Lim Island in 1722 85
N. A. Sotavov (Makhachkala). The Circum-Caspian Areas within the Eurasian International Relationships at the Time of Peter I and Nadir-Shah Afshar. 93
Shushanik Khachikian (Yerevan). On the Commercial Activities of an 18th Century New Julfa Merchant Sarhad Bandurean in Amsterdam 101
Dan Shapira (Jerusalem). A Karaite from Wolhynia meets a Zoroastrian from Baku 105
Matthias Weinreich (Jerewan). Die Pashto Sprecher des Karakorum: Zur Migrationsgeschichte einer ethno-linguistischen Minderheit 107
Alexander Yaskorski (Jerewan). Die deutschen Siedlungen im Südkaukasus 133
Ruslan Seferbekov (Makhachkala). On the Demonology of the Tabasaranians 139
Garnik Asatrian (Yerevan). Al Reconsidered 149
Jalil Doostkhah (Townsville, Australia). Shahnameh And The Oral Epic Traditions (A Brief Note) 157
Mushegh Asatrian (Yerevan) : A Manual of Iranian Folk Magic:Publication of the Text (Part I) 163
Victoria Arakelova (Yerevan). Sufi Saints in the Yezidi Tradition 183
John Perry (Chicago) The Historical Role of Turkish in Relation to Persian of Iran 193
Garnik Asatrian, Victoria Arakelova (Yerevan). Blunt, Bald and Wise (Iranian kund(-)) 201
Artak Vardanian(Yerevan): The Assyro-Babylonian Humbaba and the Armenian Plant Name Xembaba 207
Khashayar Bahari (Tehran): The Oldest Old Persian Text 209
ARCHAEOLOGY
L. Jibladze, L. Dzidziguri, T. Chigoshvili (Tbilisi). Agricultural Tools in the Early Bronze Colchis 213
TOPICAL PROBLEMS
Rafig Yahya Oðlu Aliyev (Baku). Some Momentous Issues of the ongoing Islamic-Christian Dialogue 217
Hakob Chakrian (Yerevan): The Armenian-Turkish Dialogue (A Brief Note) 223
OLD PAGES

The Unpublished Report of His Britannic Majesty’s Agent
David Lockhart Lorimer. The Bakhtiari Tribal


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Book Reviews & Notes 239
Book Received 261