OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Iran and the Caucasus is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Front matter	2
Front matter	2
Countering Radicalization in the North Caucasus	2
Expanders of the Realm	2
The Tamma of Azerbaijan in Regional and Imperial Contexts (1228–1261)	1
Contributions to Iranian Etymology II	1
The Talibs or the Taliban in Afghanistan	1
Reconsidering the Turkish–Islamic Synthesis	1
Pashtuns’ Tribal Islam: The Beginning of Written History	1
Iranian Lexical Material in the Caucasus	1
Urartian Stelae in Late Antique and Early Medieval Armenia	1
Philipp Ammon, Georgien zwischen Eigenstaatlichkeit und russischer Okkupation, Frankfurt a. M.: “Vittorio Klostermann Verlag”, 2020.—238 pp.	1
Sanctity, Gender and Authority in Medieval Caucasia, by Nikoloz Aleksidze	1
Ossetic Boar	1
The City of Brass and Alexander’s Narrow Grave: Translation and Commentary of Kafas added to Manuscript M7709 (Part 1)	1
Ludwig Paul (with the cooperation of Pejman Firoozbakhsh), An Analytical Bibliography of New Iranian Languages and Dialects. Based on Persian Publications since ca. 1980, Wiesbaden: “Ludwig Reichert V	1
A Prologue to Armenian Toponymy	1
Seventy-Two and The One Nation	1
Pashto Radical Simple Verbs and the Linguistic Border	1
Armeno-Avarica	1
On the Road to Kashgar	1
Horace and the Parthians	1
The Armenians Themselves Burnt Their Own Houses and Desecrated Their Own Churches	0
Laṭxāna (1950–1954), an Intellectual Commune in Quetta (Baluchistan)	0
The Survival of Ossetians in Turkey	0

Lambdacism and the Development of Old Iranian *tin Pashto	0
Lankarān	0
Tubo-Sogdian Relations along the Silk Road: On an Enigmatic Gold Plaque from Dulan (Qinghai, China)	0
Christoph Baumer, History of the Caucasus, v. 1: At the Crossroads of Empires, London: “I. B. Tauris/Bloomsbury”, 2021—386 pp.	0
Again on New Persian ālufta	0
The New Testament Gospels in Manichaean Tradition. The Sources in Syriac, Greek, Coptic, Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, Bactrian, New Persian, and Arabic, with Appendices on the Gospel of Thomas a	0
Front Matter	0
On the Ethnonym Khazar	0
Back matter	0
Pluralized Collectives in Young Avestan: A Morphosyntactic Explanation of the Replacement of the YAv. nom.-acc.pl.n. Endings and by -āiš, and -īš	0
An Agenda for the Study of the Jesus Letter	0
An Eastern Iranian Lunar Deity and Her Epithet	0
In the Spirit of Zarathustra: Intertextual Legitimation in Pahlavi Literature	0
On the Participation of Armenians in the Mongol Ilkhanate’s Invasion of Syria (1259–1260)	0
Hedayatollah Khan and the Gulgakh Canal	0
Again on the Demoness Šaša	0
Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures, by Maryam Nourzaei, Carina Jahani, Agnes Korn (eds.)	0
Proto-Indo-European Initial *r Revisited	0
Preliminary Material	0
1908 Tabriz Uprising through French Writings	0
Hunza Matters: Bordering and Ordering between Ancient and New Silk Roads, by Hermann Kreutzmann	0
Iran’s Security Interests and Policies in the South Caucasus	0
Voices of Desolation	0
On the Emergence of the Iranian Apocalypse Between the Sixth and Seventh Centuries	0
Samuel N. C. Lieu, Glen L. Thompson (eds.), The Church of the East in Central Asia and China (China and the Mediterranean World, 1), Turnhout: “Brepols”, 2020.—xiii + 245 pp.	0
Some Remarks on the Urartian Toponym Dara(ni) and Its Possible Identification with the Site of Solak-1/Varsak in Kotayk Region, Armenia	0
On Criticism of S. L. Nikolayev/S. A. Starostin, A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary	0
The Significance of ṛtācā brzmniy in Xerxes’ Cultic Reform	0
Armenia and Iran	0
A Second Apostate?	0
Out of the Mouth of Babes … (Ps. 8:2)	0
Three Ritual Steps between India and Iran	0
A Copper Statuette from South-Eastern Iran (3rd Millennium B.C.)	0
Sefer Yeṣirah’s Dating, Geographic Provenance and the Open Question of Its Composer’s Religious Affiliation and Identity	0
New Persian yādgār	0
The Oil Policy and Independence of the Kurdistan Regional Government	0
An Unknown Source on Proselytism among the Udis	0
The History and Current Position of the Afghanistan’s Sikh Community	0
Parthian moγ and Middle Persian moγ/mow in Light of Earlier Eastern and Western Iranian Sources	0
Caucasian Albania	0
Russian Orientalistics (Vostokovedenie)	0
Preliminary Material	0
The Mazdean Image of the Bird and its ‘Earthly’ Egg in Light of Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride, ch. 47, and its Later Continuations	0
China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Eurasian Economic Union	0
Baskin Oran, Minorities and Minority Rights in Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Present State, translated by John William Day, Boulder-Colorado: “Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.”, 2021.—275 pp.	0
Håkon F. Teigen, The Manichaean Church in Kellis, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 100, Brill: Leiden–Boston, 2021.—355pp.	0
Heightened Smuggling of Weapons and Ammunition from Southern Caucasus to Northwestern Iran on the Eve of World War I	0
The City of Brass and Alexander’s Narrow Grave: Translation and Commentary of Kafas added to Manuscript M7709 (Part 2)	0
Far away from Pārsa: Empire, Borders, and Ideology in Achaemenid Bactria	0
The Southern Boundaries of the Southern Caucasus	0

Ubykh Personal Names	0
History of the Caucasus, v. 2: In the Shadow of Great Powers, by Christoph Baumer	0
“She Did Not Give Bread to a Dog with Puppies”	0
A Corpus-Based Study of Alignment in Literary Gorani (Based on the Manuscript 11092 of Dīwān-i Mawlawī)	0
Symmetry in Armenian Mediaeval Ornaments	0
On the Etymology of the Avestan Personal Name pourušaspa-	0
Manifestation of the Yezidi Identity	0
Succession of Generations of the Circassian Mamlūks (1496–1501)	0
Armeno-Iranica, Indo-Europaeica, and Gathica	0
Table of Contents	0
Jihad as an Individual Duty (farḍ al-ʻayn) in the Ideology of Circassian Sultans (1382–1517)	0
The Battle for Minds in Cold War Afghanistan: Outlining the United States Information Management Regime	0
The Ostād	0
Illegal Trafficking of Ammunition Along the Iran–Caucasian Border in the Early 20th Century	0
A Struggle for Identity: The Ismailis in the Afghan War (1979-1989)	0
Georgia and Sasanian Iran	0
The Demonic ‘Sub-Humanity’ of the Bears in the Mazdean Framework and Other Remarks	0
The Iranian Sound Change w- > γw- in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands and a New Etymology for Gāndhārī and Sanskrit guśura(ka)-	0
Table of Contents	0
Маджарские: армянский род в истории Беларуси, by Денис В. Лисейчиков, Евгений С. Глинский & The Majarskis: An Armenian Family in the History of Belarus, by Denis V. Lisejčikov, Evgenij S. Glinskij	0
On the Border between Urartu and Mannea: Goyje Qalʽeh, an Iron Age Site in Northern Iran	0
The St. Ełiše (Elisaeus) Church and the Sanctuary of Kyomrad in Nij	0
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity. Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250-750	0
Some Remarks on the Term Abxāz in Classical Persian Literature and Historiography	0
Metal Quivers from Hasanlu	0
Escape from the Land of the Dead: Nart Sagas, Divine Comedy, and the Journey Through the Afterlife	0
On the Legal System of the First Republic of Armenia (1918–1920)	0
Акоп Овнатанян. Портреты–воспоминания о художнике , by Ирина Дзуцова	0
The Archaeological Expeditions to Afghanistan (1949-1951) by the American Museum of Natural History (New York) and their Orphaned Archaeological Collections	0
Editorial Preface	0
America’s Turkish Lobby against Armenian Genocide Recognition	0
On the History of a Mysterious Word: Kurdish ēš‘ache, pain; disease’	0
Shiraz on the Adriatic	0
Back Matter	0
Alberto Tiburcio, Muslim–Christian Politics in Safavid Iran, Edinburgh: “Edinburgh University Press”, 2020.—232 pp.	0
Development Stages of Islamic Movements in the Pashtun Tribal Environment: The Case of the Rawshaniyya and Beyond	0
Eros and the Pearl. The Yezidi Cosmogonic Myth at the Crossroads of Mystical Traditions , by Artur Rodziewicz	0
David Leupold, Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory, New York: “Routledge”, 2020.—249 pp.	0
The ‘House of Song’, the *‘House of Clay’, Arm. gerezman, and Caucaso-Albanica	0
Iranian Lexical Material in the Caucasus	0
Whose Past and Whose Future: Free Love and Love Marriage among “Kafirs” of the Hindukush in an Early Nineteenth-Century Persian Ethnography	0
The Survival of an Ancient Term in Talishi	0
Hell’s Kitchen: The Banquet in the Hereafter and the Reflexion of Zoroastrian Eschatological Motifs in the Qurʾān	0
On Peace Activists and Skilled Survivors	0
The Case of a Molokan Woman from the Archive of the Erivan Uezd Court (Mid-19th Century)	0
The Talishis on Opposite Banks of the Araxes River: Identity Issues	0
Back matter	0
Missionaries in Persia: Cultural Diversity and Competing Norms in Global Catholicism, by Christian Windler	0
“Other” Strategies in the Eastern Caucasus (Part II): Typology	0
Front Matter	0
“Other” Strategies in the Eastern Caucasus (Part I): Data from Udi	0
Concepts of hewād ‘Homeland’ and millat ‘Nation’ in Modern Pashto-Language Schoolbooks	0
The Jewish–Tat Relations and the Issue of Mountain Jews Identity (Part II)	0
The City of Brass and Alexander’s Narrow Grave	0
Written Torah and Oral Torah in the Study of Hasidism	0
An Etymological Note on YAv. mūra-: Is it Really “Idiot, Stupid, Foolish”?	0
A Central Asian Silver Dish with a Greek Mythological Scene found in Dulan (Qinghai)	0
On an Enigmatic Deity with a Dragon on a Chorasmian Silver Bowl from Dagestan	0
Scythians and ξεινικὰ νόμαια	0
On a Painted Burial Jar from Tigranakert of Artsakh	0
Linguistic Insights from a Bilingual Letter: The Malati Dialect of Zoroastrian Dari in Yazd	0
Relocating the Prophet’s Image: Narrative Motifs and Local Appropriation of the Zarathustra Legend in Pre- and Early Islamic Iran (Part II - North-West Iran)	0
Picturing the Ottoman Armenian World: Photography in Erzurum, Harput, Van and Beyond, Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World, by David Low	0
The Elamite Version of A2Ha and the Verb vidiyā- in Old Persian	0
‘Big’ and ‘Small’ in the Toponymy of the Swāt Valley	0
Judaism in the Kitchen: Ritual Space of the Mountain Jewish Women of Dagestan	0
Early Safavid Campaigns in the Caucasus	0
Approaching the Neolithization Processes in North-Western Iran	0
The Ethno-Religious Contradictions as Threats to the North Caucasus Stability and Integration	0
Martyrdom of the Sukiaseans (Mytho-Ritual Aspect)	0
In the Pursuit of the Lost Language	0
Pierre Briant, From Cyrus to Seleukos: Studies in Achaemenid and Hellenistic History, Ancient Iran Series, vol. 5: “UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies”, 2018.—327pp.	0
James Robert Russell 70	0
L’épopée caucasienne des Nartes. Cycles d’Ossétie, Traduits de l’ossète et commentés par Lora Arys-Djanaïéva et Iaroslav Lebedynsky, Paris: “L’Harmattan”, 2019.—325 pp.	0
Traditionalism and Demodernisation	0
The Early History of the Syriac Liturgy. Growth, Adaptation and Inculturation , by Baby Varghese	0
Kurmanji p’irč (f.) ‘hair’	0
Archaeological Analysis of the Two Spearheads from the Territory of Medieval Armenia	0
ʿAbdulbahāʾ farzand-e Īrān: baxš-e farāmūš-šode-ye tārīx-e roušanfekrī-ye Īrān, by Fereydūn Vahman (ed.)	0
Pro-Regime Posters in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan	0