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Iran and the Caucasus. Scholarly journal, volumes 1-7 (1997-2003)
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Vol. 1 (1997):

- Этногенез курдов и ранние армяно-курдские контакты (The Origins of the Kurds and Early Armenian-Kurdish Contacts) (pp. 1-16)
Гарник Асатрян
- The Early Muslim Geographers on the Ethnic Situation in Khurasan (IX-XIII Centuries A.D.) (pp. 17-24)
Aliy Kolesnikov
- Autour des Hypotheses de l'Origine Kurde de la Maison Princière Arménienne des Zakarides (pp. 25-46)
Hayrapet Margarian
- Цыганский элемент в курдских племенах (Некоторые вопросы этногенеза курдов) (The Gypsy Element among the Kurdish Tribes) (pp. 47-50)
Вардан Восканян
- К вопросу о месте рождения Тимура (Concerning the Problem of Tamerlain's Birthplace) (pp. 51-54)
Азамат Зиеев
- К истории переселения дагестанцев в Турцию (Concerning the History of the Migration of Dagestanis to Turkey) (pp. 55-64)
А. М. Магомеддадаев, M. K. Mycaeba
- Взаимоотношения народов Дагестана с кавказскими народами (The Interrelations of Dagestanis with the Caucasian Peoples) (pp. 65-74)
Б̣Г̣ Аλиев, М.-С.К. Умаханов, Е.И. Иноземцева
- Персидский документ из Дагестана (A Persian Document from Dagestan) (pp. 75-80)
Аλександра Козλова
- Афганский элемент в Белуджских племенах (The Afghani Element among the Baluchi Tribes) (pp. 81-83)
Ваге Бояджян
- Armenian Epic Tradition and Kurdish Folklore (pp. 85-92)
Sargis Haroutyunian
- Из истории одного земледель ческого культа табасаранцев (Concerning the History of an Agricultural Cult among the Tabasaranis) (pp. 93-96)
Русλан Сефрбеков
- Селъскохозяйственные орудия лакцев и их типология (Конец ХІХ- начало ХХ в.) (The Typology of Agricultural Implements among the Laks) (pp. 97-106)
З. Рамазанова
- Parthian Nisa: New Lines of Research (pp. 107-119)
Antonio Invernizzi
- Сийах-Галеш - Черный пастыръ (Образы духов-покровителей скота в верованиях новоиранских народов) (Siyah-Galeš: Black Shepherd) (pp. 121-123)
Виктория Аракеλова
- The Logic of Retribution and the Study of Melanesian Religions (pp. 125-145)
Garry Trompf
- Contribution a la Question des Symboles Zoomorphes dans l'Art de l'Orient (Le Serpent et le Paon) (pp. 147-158)
Raya Amirbekian
- Areal Lexical Contacts of the Afghan (Pashto) Language (Based on the Texts of the XVI-XVIII Centuries) (pp. 159-166)
Vladimir Kushev
- Aramaeo-Iranica (pp. 167-169)
Gikyo Ito
- "Asme, Asmen, Astare": Nordwestiranisches Wortgut im Türkeitürkischen (pp. 171-178)
Uwe Bläsing
- Iranian Notes (pp. 179-180)
Garnik Asatrian
- A Semantic Approach to Vennemann's "Great Puzzle" (pp. 181-183)
Virgil Strohmeyer
- Геоэкономическая оценка стран Закавказского региона (The Geo-Economic Characteristics of the Transcaucasian States) (pp. 185-200)
Игоръ Мурадян

- Note Sur les Sects Dans le Kurdistan (pp. 203-204)
T. Gilbert

- Review: [untitled] (pp. 205-206)
Manfred Lorenz
Reviewed work(s): Kurdisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch by Feryad Fazil Omar; Kurdischen Studien Berlin
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 206-207)
Virgil Strohmeyer
Reviewed work(s): Poetry of Baxtiaris by Fereydun Vahman; Garnik Asatrian
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 207-208)
Claus Peterson
Reviewed work(s): A Memorial Volume. Dedicated to Klaus Ferdinand on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday by Klaus Khan Baba
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 208-209)
Виктория Аракеλова
Reviewed work(s): The Mystery of Numbers by Annemarie Schimmel
- Review: [untitled] (p. 209)
Vardan Voskanian
Reviewed work(s): فرهنگ خراسان بزرگ (A Dictionary of the Dialect of Greater Khorasan) by امبر شالچى; A. Shalchi
- Review: [untitled] (p. 210)
Nader Entessar
Reviewed work(s): Kurdistan during the First World War by Kamal Madhar Ahmad; Ali Maher Ibrahim



Vol. 3-4 (1999-2000):

- Select Ritual Aspects of the Gathas and Their Continuity in Later Tradition (pp. 1-8)
Firoze M. Kotwal
- The Vision of Zoroaster: An Essay on the Mystical Origins of "The Good Vision" (pp. 9-32)
David L. Martin
- Materialen und Industrien aus dem Iranischen Hochland in den nahöstlichen Märkten des 4. bis 2. Jahrtausends v. Chr. (pp. 33-58)
Jahanshah Derakhshani
- Épisodes de la rencontre avec Rome (IIe siècle av. J.-C. - IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.) (pp. 59-78)
Giusto Traina
- The Holy Brotherhood: The Yezidi Religious Institution of the "Brother" and the "Sister" of the "Next World" (pp. 79-96)
Garnik Asatrian
- Теократия в Дагестане (Theocracy in Dagestan) (pp. 97-108)
Б.Г. Аλиев
- The Gypsies of Iran (A Brief Introduction) (pp. 109-118)
Sekandar Amanolahi
- Земλедеλъческие обычаи и оБряды λакцев конца ХІХ - начаλа ХХ века (Agricultural Customs and Rites among the Laks) (pp. 119-132)
Зоя Рамазанова
- Gods and Demons of the Dagestanian Peoples (A Tentative Typology and Classification) (pp. 133-134)
Ruslan Seferbekov
- Bayt'ā Gilāvīyē - A Lament for a Noble Woman. Or Evidence for Polygamy among the Yezidis (pp. 135-142)
Victoria Arakelova
- Pahlavi References to Armenia (pp. 143-146)
Dan Shapira
- Из истории торгвλи "живым товаром" в Дагестане (From the History of the Slave-Trade in Dagestan) (pp. 147-152)
Еλена Иноземцева
- The Earliest Attestation of the Toponym Afghanistan and the Legend of the Origin of the Afghans (pp. 153-156)
Tork Dalalian
- Khoshak-Khatun: An Armenian Princess in Iran (pp. 157-158)
Hayrapet Margarian
- Dewrēš E'rd: The Yezidi Lord of the Earth (pp. 159-166)
Vardan Voskanian
- Заметка оБ ирано-грузинских отношениях (A Note on Iranian-Georgian Relations) (pp. 167-170)
Теа Чхеидзе
- "The Mothers of Night": An Armenian - East Iranian Parallel (pp. 171-172)
Garnik Asatrian, Tork Dalalian
- The Vuandalic Alphabet According to Teseo Ambrogio (pp. 173-182)
Virgil Strohmeyer
- Ambrogio Teseo's Intentions for the Learner: The Aesthetic and Epistemology Entailed in the Presentation of Multilingual Exercises (pp. 183-192)
Virgil Strohmeyer
- A Note on the Garni Inscription (pp. 193-196)
Dan Shapira
- Именное сλовооБразование в йезди и кермани (Nominal Word-Formation in Yazdi and Kermani) (pp. 197-202)
Еλена Моλчанова
- Iranian Miscellanea (pp. 203-208)
Garnik Asatrian
- Kurdish Etymologies. I (pp. 209-212)
Garnik Asatrian
- The Origin of the -ng Suffix in Kurmandji (pp. 213-214)
Garnik Asatrian
- Lexical Gleanings from Machkalashen (pp. 215-216)
Gourgen Melikian
- The Miniature Paintings of the Barzū-Nāma: An Illustrated Interpolation to a Qajar Shāhnama from Matenadaran Collection (pp. 217-224)
Rachel Goldenweiser
- Le Cycle Illustratif d'un Manuscrit Afghan du XVIIIe siècle (Collection du Maténadaran) (pp. 225-238)
Raya Amirbekian
- A Manual of Iranian Folk Magic in the Archive of the Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies in Yerevan (pp. 239-242)
Garnik Asatrian, Victoria Arakelova
- Фоλъкλор и традиционная куλътура в труде Наршахи "История Бухары" (Folklore and Traditional Culture in Narshahl's "History of Bukhara") (pp. 243-248)
Равшан Рахмонов
- Nur Baba: Ein Bektaschitischer Tatsachenroman (Der Alevismus-Bektaschismus) (pp. 249-282)
Manfred Backhausen
- О чудотворстве святых в исλамской традиции (Miracles of the Saints in Islamic Tradition) (pp. 283-288)
Екатерина Хачатрян
- Twelve Rubā'is Ascribed to Baba Taher in the Bakhtiari Dialect from the Collection of D. L. Lorimer (pp. 289-292)
Fereydun Vahman
- Urartian Ceramics from the Ararat Valley as a Cultural Phenomenon (A Tentative Representation) (pp. 293-314)
Haik Avetisian
- Этноним Χαλδᾶιοι в античной традиции (The Ethnic Name χαλδαιοι in Classic Sources) (pp. 315-320)
Мариам Дандамаева
- Hirsche und Andere Tiere in den Grabritualen der Armenischen Bronzezeit (pp. 321-324)
Burchard Brenties
- Из истории Формирования армянской диаспоры в России (Х-ХХ вв.) (The History of the Armenian Diaspora in Russia) (pp. 325-336)
Аλλа Тер-саркисянц
- Система разведыватеλъных сλужБ Турции и пантюркистские организации (The Intelligence System of Turkey and Panturkic Organizations) (pp. 337-366)
Игоръ Мурадян
- The Caucasus: Marginal Notes from a Diary (pp. 367-374)
Boris Belyakov
- Динамика соотношения потестарно-поλитического и этнического в становλении поλитической куλътуры Индии (To the Formation of the Political Culture of India) (pp. 375-386)
Беλλа Овсепян
- The Superiority of a Political Lottery in Third Millennium (A Swiftian Modest Proposal) (pp. 387-388)
Josephine Reardon
- On Baluchi Separatism (pp. 389-396)
Vahe Boyajian
- The Zaza People as a New Ethno-Political Factor in the Region (pp. 397-408)
Victoria Arakelova
- The Delmiks (pp. 409-412)
A. Mkrtchian
- Persian Proper Names: Compiling a Glossary for Practical Use in Persian (A Brief Report) (pp. 413-414)
Maria Ayvazian-Terzian

Book Reviews Notes

- Review: [untitled] (pp. 417-418)
Garnik Asatrian, Virgil Strohmeyer
Reviewed work(s): Die Arier in den nahöstlichen Quellen des 3. und 2. Jahrtausends v.Chr. by Jahanshah Derakhshani
- Review: [untitled] (p. 418)
Victoria Arakelova
Reviewed work(s): Alevi Identity: Cultural, Religious and Social Perspectives by Tord Olsson; Elisabeth Ozdalga; Catharina Raudvere
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 419-420)
G. As.
Reviewed work(s): The Influence of the Armenian Language and Alphabet upon the Development of the Renaissance's Perennial Philosophy, Biblical Hermeneutics and Christian Kabbalism by Virgil Strohmeyer
The Importance of Teseo Ambrogio degli Albonesi's Selected Armenian Materials for the Development of the Renaissance Perennial Philosophy and an Armenological Philosophical Tradition by Virgil Strohmeyer
- Review: [untitled] (p. 420)
V. Str.
Reviewed work(s): The Elamite Language by Margaret Khachikjan
- Review: [untitled] (p. 420)
Vahe Boyajian
Reviewed work(s): ياد بهار. يادنامە دکتر مهرداد بهار (مجموعە مقالات) (Yād-e Bahār - Collection of Articles Dedicated to the Memory of Mehrdad Bahar) by Mehrdad Bahar; Katayun Mazdapur; All-Mohammad Haqshenas
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 421-422)
Raya Amirbekian
Reviewed work(s): Topkapi à Versailles. Trésors de la Cour ottomane
- Review: [untitled] (p. 423)
Виктория Тер-абрамян
Reviewed work(s): Пумь δерВцша: Пямь поэмоВ Россцц пб Иране ц еƨо кульмуре (The Path of Dervish: Five Russian Poets about Iran and Its Culture) by Р. Ангаладяна; Г. Асатряна; R. Angaladian; G. Asatrian
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 423-424)
Виктория Аракеλова
Reviewed work(s): ДреВнц Иран ц Тубем: Исморця релцƨцц бон (The Ancient Iran and Tibet: The History of the Bon Religion) by Б̣И̣ Кузнецов; Bronislav Kuznetsov
- Review: [untitled] (p. 425)
V. Str.
Reviewed work(s): In a Persian Mirror by M. R. Ghanoonparvar
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 426-428)
G. As.
Reviewed work(s): Armenian Loanwords in Turkish by Robert Dankoff
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 428-429)
Rachel Goldenweiser
Reviewed work(s): Medieval Armenian Manuscripts of the University of California, Los Angeles by Avedis K. Sanjian; Alice Taylor; Sylvie L. Merian
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 429-430)
Vahe Boyajian
Reviewed work(s): Смраны ц Нароδы Восмока. Вып. ХХХ: Ценмральня Аэця. Восмочныч̑ Гцнδукуш (Countries and Peoples of The East. Vol. XXX: Central Asia. Eastern Hindukush) by И̣М̣ Стеблин-Каменского; I. M. Steblin-Kamenskij
- Review: [untitled] (p. 431)
Асмик Киракосян
Reviewed work(s): ИсслеδоВанця по цранскоч̑ фцлолоƨцц (Выпск перВыч̑) (Research Papers on Iranian Philology (First Volume)) by В. Иванова; V. Ivanov
- Review: [untitled] (p. 431)
Беλλа Овсепян
Reviewed work(s): Полцмцческце проблемы Грузцц (The Political Developments in Georgia) by Игорь Мурадян; Igor Muradian
- [Unknown Title] (Armenian Journal of Oriental Studies) (pp. 432-433)
Ekaterina Khachatrian
- Review: [untitled] (p. 434)
Tork Dalalian
Reviewed work(s): Ptolemy Geography, Book 6: Middle East, Central and North Asia, China. Part 1 by Susanne Ziegler
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 434-435)
Б. ОВС.
Reviewed work(s): Анамолцчч̑ско-цранское ƨеоццВцлцзаццонное промцВосмоянце (Iran and Turkic World: Geo-Civilisational Confrontation) by Игорь Мурадян; Igor Muradian
- Review: [untitled] (p. 435)
Б. ОВС.
Reviewed work(s): Геозкономцческце цнмересы ц коммунцкаццонные проекмы (Geo-Economic Interests and Communication Projects in the Caucasian-Caspian Region) by Игорь Мурадян; Igor Muradian
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 436-437)
Борис Беλяков
Reviewed work(s): Имам Хомеч̑нц: Полцческая борьба ом рожδенця δо кончцны (Imam Khomeyni: Political Portrait) by Хамид Ансари; Hamid Ansari
- Review: [untitled] (p. 438)
Josephine Reardon
Reviewed work(s): Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East 1789-1923 by Efraim Karsh; Inari Karsh
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 439-440)
V. Ar.
Reviewed work(s): Hayoths Dzor - Xavasor by Gunnar Wießner
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 440-441)
Josephine Reardon
Reviewed work(s): Эмюδы по цранскоч̑ эмнолоƨцц (Essays on Iranian Ethnology) by Гарник Асатрян; Garnik Asatrian
- Review: [untitled] (p. 441)
V. Str.
Reviewed work(s): Lexicon der Indogermanischen Verben: Die Wurzeln und ihre Primärstammbildungen by Helmut Rix
- Review: [untitled] (p. 442)
Georgi Bogdanov
Reviewed work(s): Menschenopfer und Mord am Altar. Griechische Mythen in Etruskischen Gräbern by Dirk Steurnagel
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 442-443)
V. Str.
Reviewed work(s): Muslim Diversity: Local Islam in Global Contexts by Leif Manger
- Review: [untitled] (p. 444)
Mushegh Asatrian
Reviewed work(s): Lexikon Arabische Welt by Günter Barthel; Kristina Stock
- Review: [untitled] (p. 445)
Perochak Patgambar
Reviewed work(s): Der Zamyād-Yašt: Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar by Almut Hintze
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 445-446)
Борис Беλяков
Reviewed work(s): Даƨесман ц цранскцц̑ мцр: Шмрцхц ВзацмосВязец̑ (Dagestan and the Iranian World) by Магомед Гасанов; Magomed Gasanov
- Review: [untitled] (p. 446)
Vardan Voskanian
Reviewed work(s): The Indian Origin and Westward Migration of the Romani People by Ian Hancock
- Review: New Publications in Zaza Grammar (pp. 447-448)
G. As.
Reviewed work(s): Zazaki. Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie by Ludwig Paul
Grammatik der Zaza-Sprache. Nord-Dialekt (Dersim Dialekt) by Zülfü Selcan
Türkçe açıklamalı zazaca dilbilgisi by Harun Turgut
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 448-449)
V. Str.
Reviewed work(s): The Armenian Way to Modernity: Armenian Identity between Tradition and Innovation, Specificity and Universality by Levon B. Zekiyan
- Review: [untitled] (p. 449)
P. Pat.
Reviewed work(s): Einführung in den Alevismus-Bektaschismus by Manfred Backhausen; Anton-Josef Dierl



Vol. 5 (2001):

- God Is Good: On Tobit and Iran (pp. 1-6)
James Russell
- Some Earliest Traces of the Aryan: Evidence from the 4th and 3rd Millennium B.C. (pp. 7-26)
Jahanshah Derakhshani
- The Armenian Parable "Zoroaster's Laughter" and the Plot of Zoroaster's Birth in the Literary Traditions (pp. 27-36)
Arthur Hambarisumian
- Ein altbabylonischer Text betreffend die Lieferung von Schilfrohr (An Old Babylonian Text about the Delivery of Reeds) (pp. 37-40)
Evelyn Klengel, Horst Klengel
- Die Ethnogenese der Kurden und frühe kurdisch-armenische Kontakte (The Origins of the Kurds and the Early Kurdish-Armenian Contacts) (pp. 41-74)
Garnik Asatrian
- The Nomads and Ethnopolitical Realities of Trnascaucasia in the 11th-14th Centuries (pp. 75-78)
Hayrapet Margarian
- On Christianity in Dagestan (pp. 79-84)
Magomed Gasanov
- The Secret Meeting of Armenians on Lim Island in 1722: Concerning the Possible Involvement of Western Armenians in an All-Armenian Liberation Movement (pp. 85-92)
Armen Aivazian
- The Circum-Caspian Areas within the Eurasian International Relationships at the Time of Peter the Great and Nadir-Shah Afshar (pp. 93-100)
N. A. Sotavov
- On the Commercial Activities of an 18th Century New Julfa Merchant Sarhad Bandurean in Amsterdam (pp. 101-104)
Shushanik Khachikian
- A Karaite from Wolhynia Meets a Zoroastrian from Baku (pp. 105-106)
Dan Shapira
- Die Pashto-Sprecher des Karakorum: Zur Migrationsgeschichte einer Ethno-Linguistischen Minderheit (The Pashto-Speakers of the Karakoram Mountains: Some Remarks on the Migration History of an Ethno-Lingustic Minority) (pp. 107-132)
Matthias Weinreich
- Deutsche Siedlungen im Südkaukasus (German Settlements in the Southern Caucasus) (pp. 133-138)
Alexander Yaskorski
- On the Demonology of the Tabasaranians: Typology and Description (pp. 139-148)
Ruslan Seferbekov
- Āl Reconsidered (pp. 149-156)
Garnik Asatrian
- Shahnameh and the Oral Epic Traditions: A Brief Note (pp. 157-162)
Jalil Doostkhah
- A Manual of Iranian Folk Magic: Publication of the Text (Part 1) (pp. 163-182)
Mushegh Asatrian
- Sufi Saints in the Yezidi Tradition I: Qawlē H'usēyīnī H'alāj̆ (pp. 183-192)
Victoria Arakelova
- The Historical Role of Turkish in Relation to Persian of Iran (pp. 193-200)
John Perry
- Blunt, Bald and Wise: Iranian kund(-) (pp. 201-206)
Garnik Asatrian, Victoria Arakelova
- The Assyro-Babylonian Ḥumbaba and the Armenian Plant Name Xəmbaba (pp. 207-208)
Artak Vardanian
- The Oldest Old Persian Text (pp. 209-212)
Khashayar Bahari
- Agricultural Tools in the Early Bronze Colchis (pp. 213-216)
L. Jibladze, L. Dzidziguri, T. Chigoshvili
- Some Momentous Issues of the Ongoing Islamic-Christian Dialogue (pp. 217-222)
Rafig Yahya Oǧlu Aliyev
- The Armenian-Turkish Dialogue: A Brief Note (pp. 223-226)
Hakob Chakrian
- The Unpublished Report of His Britannic Majesty's Agent: David Lockhart Lorimer's "The Bakhtiari Tribal" (pp. 227-238)
D. L. R. Lorimer, Fereydun Vahman, Garnik Asatrian
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 241-244)
Khachatoor Khachatoorian
Reviewed work(s): The Heroes of Kasht (Kašti k'ajer): An Armenian Epic by James R. Russell
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 245-246)
Paul White
Reviewed work(s): Women, Work and Islamism: Ideology and Resistance in Iran by Maryam Poya
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 246-247)
G. A.
Reviewed work(s): Lexikon Georgische Mythologie by Heinz Fähnrich
- Review: [untitled] (p. 247)
Reviewed work(s): Новоиранские языки: Северозападная группа by Основы иранского языкознания
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 247-248)
Vahe Boyajian
Reviewed work(s): Die iranischen Sprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart by Rüdiger Schmitt
- Review: [untitled] (p. 248)
Maria Ayvazian-Terzian
Reviewed work(s): Caucasia between the Ottoman Empire and Iran, 1555-1914 by Raoul Motika; Michael Ursinus
- Review: [untitled] (p. 248)
Mushegh Asatrian
Reviewed work(s): Hadji Bektacsh. Un mythe & ses avatars: Genèse & évolution du soufisme populaire en Turquie by Irène Mélikoff
- Review: [untitled] (p. 249)
Victoria Arakelova
Reviewed work(s): Naqshbandis in Western and Central Asia by Elizabeth Özdalga
- Review: [untitled] (p. 249)
Reviewed work(s): Beiträge zu altpersischen Inschriften by Rüdiger Schmidt
- Review: [untitled] (p. 250)
Reviewed work(s): Die Nebenüberlieferung des 6. Buchs der Geographie des Ptolemaios by Maria Gabriela Schmidt
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 250-251)
Reviewed work(s): The Book of Sadness by Grigor Narekatsi; Khachatoor Khachatoorian
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 251-253)
Matthias Weinreich
Reviewed work(s): Сужδенця δуха разума. Сомеоренце осноеы ц δруƨце мексмы by Зороасмрцц̆скце мексмы; Издание подготовлено О. Чунаковой
- Review: [untitled] (p. 253)
Matthias Weinreich
Reviewed work(s): Zendavesta or the Religious Books of the Zoroastrians. Volume I: The Zend Texts by N. L. Westergaard
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 254-255)
Victoria Arakelova, Tatevik Margarian
Reviewed work(s): World Directory of Minorities
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 255-259)
Gayane Hovhannissian
Reviewed work(s): Унцеерсальная меорця языка: Пролеƨомены к субсманццоналr=,ss,n,oŭ лцнƨецсмцке by Г̣Б̣ Джаукян
- [Unknown Title] (Armenian Journal of Oriental Studies) (p. 260)
- Books Received (pp. 261-262)



Vol. 6 (2002):

History, Culture

- Zoroastrian Notes (pp. 1-10)
James Russell
- A New Testimony from India to the Syriac Version of Pseudo-Dionysius (Pampakuda, Konat Collection, Ms. 239) (pp. 11-26)
Andrew Palmer, István Perczel
- Shahid bin Jarr, Forefather of the Yezidis and the Gnostic Seed of Seth (pp. 27-56)
Eszter Spät
- Three Figures from the Yezidi Folk Pantheon (pp. 57-73)
Victoria Arakelova
- The Lord of Cattle in Gilan (pp. 75-85)
Garnik Asatrian
- Legal Status of Women in Traditional Dagestani Society (Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century) (pp. 87-102)
Beskhanum Ragimova

Linguistics

- Ein Beitrag zu Zigeuner-Jargons, Geheimsprachen und zum argotischen Wortschatz in der Türkei. Einige Bemerkungen zu Caferoğlus Liste aus dem Wortschatz der Elekçi bei Alaçam (Bolu) (Some Remarks concerning Caferoğlu's Vocabulary of the Elekçi Group Living Nearby the Village Alaçam (Bolu)) (pp. 103-168)
Uwe Bläsing
- The Iranian Loan-Words in Lomavren, The Secret Language of the Armenian Gypsies (pp. 169-180)
Vardan Voskanian
- On the Problem of Secret Languages and Slangs in Iran (pp. 181-188)
Gurgen Melikian
- Notes on the New Iranian Toponomastics (The Element -būr) (pp. 189-192)
Dariush Borbor

Historico-Political Issues

- Reza Shah and the Lurs: The Impact of the Modern State on Luristan (pp. 193-218)
Sekandar Amanolahi
- Recasting and Recording Identities in the Caucasus (pp. 219-235)
Touraj Atabaki
- A Reassessment of Regional Politics and International Relations in the South Caucasus (pp. 237-247)
Gerard Libaridian
- The Contemporary Status of Iran's Nuclear Missile Programme and Russo-Iranian Relations (pp. 249-260)
Sergey Minasian

Reviews

- Review: [untitled] (pp. 270-273)
Vahe Boyajian-Sureniants
- Reviewed work(s): Black Tents of Baluchistan by Philip Carl Salzman
- Review: [untitled] (pp. 273-275)
Virgil Strohmeyer
- Reviewed work(s): The King's Dictionary: The Rasulid Hexaglot: Fourteenth Century Vocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongol by Tibor Halasi-Kun; Peter B. Golden; Louis Legeti; Edmond Schütz



Vol. 7 (2003):

History, Culture:

- Malak-Tāwūs: The Peacock Angel of the Yezidis (pp. 1-36)
Garnik Asatrian, Victoria Arakelova
- The Kurdish Principality of Hakkariya (14th-15th Centuries) (pp. 37-58)
Alexander Khachatrian
- Vardish: A Survival of the Old Männerbund in Dagestan (pp. 59-71)
Sergey Luguev
- Ibn Khaldūn on Magic and the Occult (pp. 73-123)
Mushegh Asatrian
- Fazel-Khan Garrusi and Tbilisi (pp. 125-131)
Marina Alexidze
- A Story of Mir Hamza, the Forefather of the Baluches (Baluchi Text with Translation) (pp. 133-146)
Vahe Boyajian-Sureniants
- The Armenian Manuscripts Illuminated by Mesrop Xizanc'i from the Matenadaran Collection (pp. 147-182)
Mikael Arakelian
- Reflections of Georgian-Iranian Cultural Interrelations in Seventeenth-Century Georgian Fine Art (pp. 183-190)
Nino Chikhladze

Linguistics:

- Notes on Some Lexical Correspondences between Armenian and the Kartvelian Languages (pp. 191-194)
Gevorg Djahukian
- The State of Armenian Paremiology and Its Future Tasks (pp. 195-207)
Uwe Bläsing
- Mehrsprachigkeit und Schrift: Betrachtungen zur Entwicklung von Schriftsystemen Iranischer Sprachen im Sowjetischen Mittelasien (Multilinguasism and Writing: Some Remarks on the Development of Writing Systems of Iranian Languages in Soviet Middle Asia) (pp. 209-250)
Lutz Rzehak, Matthias Weinreich
- Planning the Persian Language in the Samanid Period (pp. 251-260)
Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari

Historico-Political Issues:

- Socio-Political Changes among the Basseri of South Iran (pp. 261-277)
Sekandar Amanolahi
- The Iraqi Turkomans and Turkey (pp. 279-308)
Vahram Petrosian
- The Turkish-Israeli Military and Political Co-operation and Regional Security Issues (pp. 309-326)
Sergey Minasian

Reviews:

- Reviewed work(s): [История Курдистана] (History of Kurdistan) by M. Лазарев; III. Мгои; E. Васильева; M. Гасратян; O. Жигалина; M. Lazarev; Sh. Mhoyi; E. Vasil'eva; M. Gasratian; O. Zhigalina
Garnik Asatrian, Samvel Margarian
- Reviewed work(s): Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam by Juan Cole
Hrant Ter-Abrahamian
- Reviewed work(s): The Afghans.: Blackwell Series "The Peoples of Asia" by Willem Vogelsang; Morris Rossabi
Vahe Boyajian-Sureniants

- Hammōzāg: Vladimir Aronovich Livshits-80 (pp. 339-344)
Garnik Asatrian