This guide will introduce select sources on Ancient and pre-modern Armenian history to its users.
Հայ ժողովրդի ծագման ու հնագույն պատմության հարցեր / Ռաֆաել Իշխանյան, Երևան 1988
Արաբական արշավանքները Հայաստանում, in Մանր Հետազոտություններ / Հակոբ Մանանդյան (Hakob H. Manandyan – b. 1873), Երեվան 1932 (p. 22-64). See the table of contents (on Gallica)
Մամիկոնյանների ծագման ավանդությունը և պատմական իրականույթւոնը, Ա. Քեշիշյան, in Հայոց պատմության հարցեր, Հ. 1, 1997 (on Armenian Academic Research)
Ասորական աղբյուրներ, Հ. Ա, series “Օտար աղբյուրները Հայաստանի և հայերի մասին” Հ. 8, Երևան, 1976 (on Armenian Academic Research)
On glass and metal craftmanship in medieval Armenia : Միջնադարյան Հայաստանի գեղարվեստական մետաղը IX-XIII դդ. ։ Միջնադարյան Հայաստանի հաղճապակին IX-XIV դդ., Նյուրա Հակոբյան, Աղավնի Ժամկոչյան, Երևան : ՀՍՍՀ ԳԱ հրատ., 1981
Հայկական Կիլիկիա / Վահան Մ. Քիւրքճեան, Նիւ Եորք 1919 (139 p.), with a map. See the table of contents (on Gallica)
The Digital South Caucasus Collection (DSCC) is part of the Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL), a project of the Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University. AWDL’s mission is to identify, collect, curate, and provide access to a wide range of scholarly materials relevant to the study of the ancient world.
The Armenian Kingdom and the Mamluks by
This volume gives an in-depth account of the relations between the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria and the Armenian Kingdom, centred on Cilicia in southern Asia Minor, in the period after the collapse of the Crusader States. As well as diplomatic encounters, the work describes in detail, for example, the course of the Mamluk invasions of Cilicia, and the Armenian involvement with the Mongol invasions of Mamluk Syria.The work is substantially based on sources written in Arabic in the Mamluk Sultanate. Using them in conjuction with more pro-Armenian sources, it demonstrates the value of these Arabic histories, which provide many new insights and details. Both in its subject, and in its use of sources, this work demonstrates an important new direction for scholars of the Middle East.
Armenia and the Crusades by
This is a translation of the Chronicle of 12th-century Armenian historian, Matthew of Edessa. The Chronicle, which covers the period from 925 AD to 1162 AD, deals with events in Armenia and upper Mesopotamia. It also refers to events in the Byzantine Empire and those conquered by the Crusaders. The introduction to the book discusses the historian's life, work and attitudes.
The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335) by
Covering more than one century, this book describes the complex issues of Mongol-Armenian political relations that involved many different ethnic groups in a vast geographical area stretching from China to the Mediterranean coast in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Women, Too, Were Blessed by
In Women, Too, Were Blessed David Zakarian examines the representation of women in the fifth-century Armenian literature and historiography revealing the church's vision of the role of women in society as well as some aspects of women's lived experience.
The Missing Pages by
In 2010, the world's wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church was suing for the return of eight pages from the Zeytun Gospels, a manuscript illuminated by the greatest medieval Armenian artist, Toros Roslin. Protected for centuries in a remote church, the holy manuscript had followed the waves of displaced people exterminated during the Armenian genocide. Passed from hand to hand, caught in the confusion and brutality of the First World War, it was cleaved in two. Decades later, the manuscript found its way to the Republic of Armenia, while its missing eight pages came to the Getty. The Missing Pages is the biography of a manuscript that is at once art, sacred object, and cultural heritage. Its tale mirrors the story of its scattered community as Armenians have struggled to redefine themselves after genocide and in the absence of a homeland. Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh follows in the manuscript's footsteps through seven centuries, from medieval Armenia to the killing fields of 1915 Anatolia, the refugee camps of Aleppo, Ellis Island, and Soviet Armenia, and ultimately to a Los Angeles courtroom. Reconstructing the path of the pages, Watenpaugh uncovers the rich tapestry of an extraordinary artwork and the people touched by it. At once a story of genocide and survival, of unimaginable loss and resilience, The Missing Pages captures the human costs of war and persuasively makes the case for a human right to art.
The Middle East in the Middle Ages : the early Mamluk sultanate, 1250-1382 by 
Matthew ofEdessa’s Chronicle : in Three Volumes of Grabar by
Matthew, and Robert Bedrosian. Matthew of Edessa’s Chronicle : in Three Volumes of Grabar. Trans. Robert Bedrosian. Dandenong Sth, Vic: Sophene, 2020. Print.
Kindred Voices by
Michael Pifer explores how Muslim and Christian poets of Anatolia grappled with the stunning cultural diversity of their region, home not only to Armenians and Greeks, but also to Persians, Turks, Arabs, Mongols, Jews, and others. This convergence produced fresh poetic styles and sensibilities, native to no single people, enabling the period's literature to speak to new and wider audiences. It is the first book to study the era's major poets against the canvas of this broader literary ecosystem.
Mongols and Global History by
An accessible, documents-based introduction to the history of the Mongols. The volume opens with a brief original essay by Morris Rossabi, one of the world's foremost scholars on the Mongols. Rossabi's essay gives a historical and interpretive overview of the Mongols and charts their invasions and subsequent rule over the largest contiguous land empire in world history. Following is a rich collection of primary sources translated into English from Armenian, Arabic, Chinese, Franco-Italian, Italian, Korean, Latin, Persian, Russian, Syriac, and Tibetan that will give students a clear sense of the extraordinary geographic and linguistic range of the Mongol Empire as well as insight into the empire's rise, how it governed, and how it fell. Each primary source includes a headnote and study questions. The volume ends with a list of further readings. About the series: The Norton Casebooks in History provide students with everything they need for in-depth study of select topics in major periods studied in American and world history. Each volume consists of an introductory essay by the editor on the topic, primary sources, and recent essays by historians that explore different interpretations. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with contextual and critical materials that bring the topic to life for students
The Epic Histories (Buzandaran Patmut'iwnk') by
The late fifth-century anonymous Epic Histories, formerly known as the History of Armenia attributed to another unknown P'awstos (Faustos) Buzand, form the earliest historical work written in Armenian. They are the main source for our knowledge of social structure, beliefs and customs of early Christian Armenia, and especially of the profound and lasting influence of Zoroastrian Persia on the recently converted country. This influence is evident in the very composition of the work, which owes as much to the lost oral tradition of the Iranian epic as to more familiar Classical and early Christian models. Hence, it is unmatched for the reconstruction of the ambivalent world of the Near East in Late Antiquity at the cross roads between Classical and Iranian civilizations. Since no scholarly translation of this work into any Western language has been attempted for more than a century, much of its contribution has remained beyond the reach of most scholars. The aim of the present publication is to fill this lacuna by complementing the translation of the original Armenian text with a Commentary and Appendices that are intended to serve not only Armenian scholars but Classicists and Iranians alike.
Religion and Culture in Medieval Islam by
George Makdisi has brought together six of the most distinguished scholars in the field to explore the religion and culture of medieval Islam. This is an original and stimulating exchange. Makdisi's introductory essay focuses on the interaction between religion and culture in classical Islam and Christendom, Merlin Swartz analyses the homilies of Ibn al-Jawazi, Irfan Shahid considers the implications of the Arabic character of the Koran, George Saliba assesses Ash'arite thought in astrology and astronomy, Roger Arnaldez reflects on the religious cultures of medieval Islam, and Mahmoud Ayoub draws together the common historic threads of Muslim-Jewish and Muslim-Christian popular worship. W. Montgomery Watt concludes the volume by addressing the question of the future of Islam, posing a parallel with the Judaic reaction to Hellenistic culture.
Տոնագիր : գիտական ժողովածու Լեւոն Տեր-Պետրոսյանի 75-ամյակի առթիվ / Խմբագրական խորհուրդ Վահան Տեր-Ղեւոնդյան. by 
Tondrakian Movement by
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