Luminaries of Armenian Culture

Iran and the Caucasus, 2007

The role of Armenian immigrants in Iranian history, Culture and Art., 2019

Abstract: The Iranian plateau has been the place of many tribes and nations who lived adjacent to each other over centuries. Iranian tribes settled in Iran almost at the beginning of the first millennium BC and put their name on it. In the 7th-8th centuries BC, one of Iranian tribes called Maday established Ma’ad government in the northwest of Iran. Then another Persian tribe called Parseh established the Achaemenid Empire in the southwest of Iran that embraced the entire Iranian plateau, Asia Minor, and a part of middle Asia. In recent historical periods, non-Iranian tribes entered this territory and continued to live alongside Iranians. Armenians are among these tribes which were mentioned for the first time in the Achamaenid Cossacks. This tribe has always had a spiritual and material relationship with Persia. The existence of Armenian Churches in various parts of Iran such as different churcheds in Tehran, Isfahan, Qara church, the church of Holy Stefanos in Jolfa Aras (9th century AD), the Holy Mosropol Church in northern Iran are signs of the presence of Armenians in this territory. Key words: Iranian history, Armenian tribes , Culture, Art.

The Festschrift is a collection of 47 essays on subjects related to Prof. Kouymjian’s interest over the years written by colleagues, friends, and students. Included in the selection that follows are the front cover, the titlepage, acknowledgements, Table of Contents, Preface, the editor’s Introduction, Bibliography of the honoree’s works, Tabula Gratulatoria, and back cover.

The article was one of the keynote addresses at the 13th General Conference of the Association international des études arméniennes (AIEA) held in cooperation with the Matenadaran, the Repository of Ancient Manuscripts, which was responsible for the splendid organization, in Erevan last fall. The exercise was to imagine how an entire volume devoted to the arts of Armenia, one of a projected seven-volume series for the Armenian component of Brill’s Handbook of Oriental Studies, the first volume of which, Armenian Philology, was published last year. Among the topics discussed are: How to define Armenian art. How to treat major and minor arts. Should modern and contemporary be included, if so how? How to integrate Armenian art created in the diaspora. Finally, who is the volume to be directed to? And how to accommodate specialists and at the same time those with little or no knowledge of Armenian art.

Armeniaca. International Journal of Armenian Studie 3 | 2024, 2024

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new online journal Armeniaca. International Journal of Armenian Studies to be published by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. This initiative responds to the ever-growing diffusion of electronic journals in academia and the need to provide such a scholarly instrument also for Armenian studies: an open access outlet that follows a double-blind peer review procedure. Based on this shared goal representatives of four Italian universities where Armenian studies are currently present in the curriculum (Bologna, Florence, Pisa and Venice), came together to carry out this project. The journal embraces an international perspective as reflected in the composition of its scientific board whose members are Armenologists from diverse research institutions and universities in Europe and beyond. It is open to the main fields of research in Armenian studies (archaeology, art, philology, literature, linguistics, history) and accepts articles in English, Italian, French, and German.

Armeniaca. International Journal of Armenian Studies, 2022

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new online journal Armeniaca. International Journal of Armenian Studies to be published by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. This initiative responds to the ever-growing diffusion of electronic journals in academia and the need to provide such a scholarly instrument also for Armenian studies: an open access outlet that follows a double-blind peer review procedure. Based on this shared goal representatives of four Italian universities where Armenian studies are currently present in the curriculum (Bologna, Florence, Pisa and Venice), came together to carry out this project. The journal embraces an international perspective as reflected in the composition of its scientific board whose members are Armenologists from diverse research institutions and universities in Europe and beyond. It is open to the main fields of research in Armenian studies (archaeology, art, philology, literature, linguistics, history) and accepts articles in English, Italian, French, and German.