TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
HISTORY, CULTURE
Manijeh Maghsudi – The Native Women Healers of Turkmen-Sahra
in Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
‘Abbas-‘Ali Madih – The Kurds of Khorasan . . . . . . .
Aram Haytian – The Molokans in Armenia
. . . . . . .
Sekandar Amanolahi – Supernaturalism among the Pastoral
Societies of Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hasmik Kirakosian – The Curse of Māmā ‘Iṣmat . . . . . .
Raisa Amirbekian – Les Sujets Soufis Dans la Miniature Medievale
Orientale (Collection du Maténadaran, Erevan) . . . . .
Levon Abrahamian – The Chained Hero: The Cave and the
Labyrinth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Narine Gevorgian – On the Ossetic Legend about Art’awyz . . .
Michael Shenkar – Temple Architecture in the Iranian World
before the Macedonian Conquest
. . . . . . . . .
Vito Messina – A Multi-level Approach to the Study of the Seal
Impressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jost Gippert, Wolfgang Schulze – Some Remarks on the Caucasian
Albanian Palimpsests . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Georgi Chochiev – On the History of the North Caucasian Diaspora
in Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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11
33
45
57
61
89
101
169
195
201
213
LINGUISTICS
Uwe Bläsing – Auf den Spuren der Panta-Birne (Ein “grenzüberschreitender” Fruchtname im östlichen Pontos) . . . . .
Vardan Voskanian, Vahe Boyajian-Sureniants – Lexical Gleanings
from Bašākard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
107
121
Maryam Borjian, Habib Borjian – Ethno-Linguistic Materials from
Rural Mazandaran . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vahe Boyajian-Sureniants – A Baluchi Episode from the
Hoseyn-kord-e Shabestari Cycle . . . . . . . . . . .
227
213
HISTORICO-POLITICAL ISSUES
Hrant Ter-Abrahamian – Islamism in the South Caucasus . . .
Alexander Safarian – On the History of Turkish Feminism . . .
Ara Papian – The Arbitral Award on Turkish-Armenian Boundary
by Woodrow Wilson
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lina Malekian – The Mass Repatriation of the Armenians from
Iran in 1946-1947 (Some Statistical Data) . . . . . . .
Heshmat Sadat Moinifar – Religious Leaders and Family
Planning in Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
127
141
255
295
299
Book Reviews
Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Khalil Jindy Rashow, God and Sheikh Adi are
Perfect: Sacred Poems and Religious Narratives from the Yezidi Tradition
(review by Victoria Arakelova and Vardan Voskanian) . . . 153
The Hemshin: History, Society and Identity in the Highlands of Northeast
Turkey (review by Alice Assadoorian)
. . . . . . . .
160
Gaṙnik Step‘anyan, Erznka: Hnaguyn dareric‘ minč‘ev mer orerə [Erznka:
From the Ancient Times till our Days] (review by Lusiné Ghazarian) 166
Selahattin Galip, Bütün Yönleriye Dönmeler ve Dönmelik [Les dönme et
le dönme-isme sous tous ses aspects] (review by Hasmik Asatrian)
168
Kocku von Stuckrad (ed.), The Brill Dictionary of Religion, translated
from German by Robert R. Barr, 4 vols (review by
Philip O. Hopkins) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
315
Agustí Alemany, Sources on the Alans: A Critical Compilation (review
by Habib Borjian) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
319
James R. Russell, Armenian and Iranian Studies (review by Alice
Assadoorian)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
324
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Ǻsa Lundgren, The Unwelcome Neighbour: Turkey’s Kurdish Policy
(review by Victoria Arakelova) . . . . . . . . .
.
326
Touraj Atabaki (ed.), The State and the Subaltern. Modernization,
Society and the State in Turkey and Iran (review by
Narine Gevorgian) . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.
329
P. Pratap Kumar (ed.), Religious Pluralism in the Diaspora (review by
Mahmud Joneidi-Ja‘fari) . . . . . . . . . . . .
333
Abū Ḥamīd Muḥammad al-Γazalī al-Ṭūsi, Kīmīyā-yi sa‘ādat, Part 2,
Rukn 2: Customs (review by Nelli Balasanian) . . . . . .
335
Zaki Chehab, Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of Militants, Martyrs
and Spies (review by Khachik Gevorgian) . . . . . . .
338
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