OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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
Countering Radicalization in the North Caucasus	2
Expanders of the Realm	2
Front matter	2
Front matter	2
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 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
Manifestation of the Yezidi Identity	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
On the Ethnonym Khazar	0

Armeno-Iranica, Indo-Europaeica, and Gathica	0
Jihad as an Individual Duty (farḍ al-ʻayn) in the Ideology of Circassian Sultans (1382–1517)	0
An Eastern Iranian Lunar Deity and Her Epithet	0
On the Participation of Armenians in the Mongol Ilkhanate’s Invasion of Syria (1259–1260)	0
The Ostād	0
Again on the Demoness Šaša	0
Proto-Indo-European Initial *r Revisited	0
The Demonic ‘Sub-Humanity’ of the Bears in the Mazdean Framework and Other Remarks	0
A Struggle for Identity: The Ismailis in the Afghan War (1979-1989)	0
1908 Tabriz Uprising through French Writings	0
Iran’s Security Interests and Policies in the South Caucasus	0
On the Border between Urartu and Mannea: Goyje Qalʽeh, an Iron Age Site in Northern Iran	0
Table of Contents	0
On the Emergence of the Iranian Apocalypse Between the Sixth and Seventh Centuries	0
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity. Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250-750	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
Metal Quivers from Hasanlu	0
On the Legal System of the First Republic of Armenia (1918–1920)	0
The Significance of ṛtācā brzmniy in Xerxes’ Cultic Reform	0
Акоп Овнатанян. Портреты–воспоминания о художнике , by Ирина Дзуцова	0
A Second Apostate?	0
Editorial Preface	0
A Copper Statuette from South-Eastern Iran (3rd Millennium B.C.)	0
On the History of a Mysterious Word: Kurdish ēš‘ache, pain; disease’	0
New Persian yādgār	0
Back Matter	0
An Unknown Source on Proselytism among the Udis	0
Development Stages of Islamic Movements in the Pashtun Tribal Environment: The Case of the Rawshaniyya and Beyond	0
Parthian moγ and Middle Persian moγ/mow in Light of Earlier Eastern and Western Iranian Sources	0
David Leupold, Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory, New York: “Routledge”, 2020.—249 pp.	0
Iranian Lexical Material in the Caucasus	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
The Survival of an Ancient Term in Talishi	0
Russian Orientalistics (Vostokovedenie)	0
Heightened Smuggling of Weapons and Ammunition from Southern Caucasus to Northwestern Iran on the Eve of World War I	0
Back matter	0
The City of Brass and Alexander’s Narrow Grave: Translation and Commentary of Kafas added to Manuscript M7709 (Part 2)	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
The Case of a Molokan Woman from the Archive of the Erivan Uezd Court (Mid-19th Century)	0
“Other” Strategies in the Eastern Caucasus (Part II): Typology	0
History of the Caucasus, v. 2: In the Shadow of Great Powers, by Christoph Baumer	0
The Southern Boundaries of the Southern Caucasus	0
“Other” Strategies in the Eastern Caucasus (Part I): Data from Udi	0
The Jewish–Tat Relations and the Issue of Mountain Jews Identity (Part II)	0
Symmetry in Armenian Mediaeval Ornaments	0
“She Did Not Give Bread to a Dog with Puppies”	0
Written Torah and Oral Torah in the Study of Hasidism	0
A Central Asian Silver Dish with a Greek Mythological Scene found in Dulan (Qinghai)	0
Succession of Generations of the Circassian Mamlūks (1496–1501)	0
Table of Contents	0

Scythians and ξεινικὰ νόμαια	0
The Battle for Minds in Cold War Afghanistan: Outlining the United States Information Management Regime	0
Illegal Trafficking of Ammunition Along the Iran–Caucasian Border in the Early 20th Century	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
Linguistic Insights from a Bilingual Letter: The Malati Dialect of Zoroastrian Dari in Yazd	0
Georgia and Sasanian Iran	0
The Iranian Sound Change w- > γw- in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands and a New Etymology for Gāndhārī and Sanskrit guśura(ka)-	0
Judaism in the Kitchen: Ritual Space of the Mountain Jewish Women of Dagestan	0
Approaching the Neolithization Processes in North-Western Iran	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
The Ethno-Religious Contradictions as Threats to the North Caucasus Stability and Integration	0
The St. Ełiše (Elisaeus) Church and the Sanctuary of Kyomrad in Nij	0
In the Pursuit of the Lost Language	0
Some Remarks on the Term Abxāz in Classical Persian Literature and Historiography	0
James Robert Russell 70	0
Escape from the Land of the Dead: Nart Sagas, Divine Comedy, and the Journey Through the Afterlife	0
Traditionalism and Demodernisation	0
The Archaeological Expeditions to Afghanistan (1949-1951) by the American Museum of Natural History (New York) and their Orphaned Archaeological Collections	0
Kurmanji p’irč (f.) ‘hair’	0
America’s Turkish Lobby against Armenian Genocide Recognition	0
ʿAbdulbahāʾ farzand-e Īrān: baxš-e farāmūš-šode-ye tārīx-e roušanfekrī-ye Īrān, by Fereydūn Vahman (ed.)	0
The Armenians Themselves Burnt Their Own Houses and Desecrated Their Own Churches	0
Alberto Tiburcio, Muslim–Christian Politics in Safavid Iran, Edinburgh: “Edinburgh University Press”, 2020.—232 pp.	0
The Survival of Ossetians in Turkey	0
Shiraz on the Adriatic	0
The ‘House of Song’, the *‘House of Clay’, Arm. gerezman, and Caucaso-Albanica	0
Again on New Persian ālufta	0
Eros and the Pearl. The Yezidi Cosmogonic Myth at the Crossroads of Mystical Traditions , by Artur Rodziewicz	0
Tubo-Sogdian Relations along the Silk Road: On an Enigmatic Gold Plaque from Dulan (Qinghai, China)	0
Hell’s Kitchen: The Banquet in the Hereafter and the Reflexion of Zoroastrian Eschatological Motifs in the Qurʾān	0
Back matter	0
On Peace Activists and Skilled Survivors	0
Whose Past and Whose Future: Free Love and Love Marriage among “Kafirs” of the Hindukush in an Early Nineteenth-Century Persian Ethnography	0
Front Matter	0
An Agenda for the Study of the Jesus Letter	0
Missionaries in Persia: Cultural Diversity and Competing Norms in Global Catholicism, by Christian Windler	0
The Talishis on Opposite Banks of the Araxes River: Identity Issues	0
In the Spirit of Zarathustra: Intertextual Legitimation in Pahlavi Literature	0
Hedayatollah Khan and the Gulgakh Canal	0
Front Matter	0
Concepts of hewād ‘Homeland’ and millat ‘Nation’ in Modern Pashto-Language Schoolbooks	0
Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures, by Maryam Nourzaei, Carina Jahani, Agnes Korn (eds.)	0
Preliminary Material	0
The City of Brass and Alexander’s Narrow Grave	0
An Etymological Note on YAv. mūra-: Is it Really “Idiot, Stupid, Foolish”?	0
Hunza Matters: Bordering and Ordering between Ancient and New Silk Roads, by Hermann Kreutzmann	0
On an Enigmatic Deity with a Dragon on a Chorasmian Silver Bowl from Dagestan	0
On a Painted Burial Jar from Tigranakert of Artsakh	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
Voices of Desolation	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
On Criticism of S. L. Nikolayev/S. A. Starostin, A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary	0
The Elamite Version of A2Ha and the Verb vidiyā- in Old Persian	0
Armenia and Iran	0
Out of the Mouth of Babes … (Ps. 8:2)	0
‘Big’ and ‘Small’ in the Toponymy of the Swāt Valley	0
Three Ritual Steps between India and Iran	0
Early Safavid Campaigns in the Caucasus	0
Sefer Yeṣirah’s Dating, Geographic Provenance and the Open Question of Its Composer’s Religious Affiliation and Identity	0
Martyrdom of the Sukiaseans (Mytho-Ritual Aspect)	0
The Oil Policy and Independence of the Kurdistan Regional Government	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
The History and Current Position of the Afghanistan’s Sikh Community	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
Caucasian Albania	0
The Early History of the Syriac Liturgy. Growth, Adaptation and Inculturation , by Baby Varghese	0
Preliminary Material	0
China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Eurasian Economic Union	0
Pro-Regime Posters in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan	0
Håkon F. Teigen, The Manichaean Church in Kellis, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 100, Brill: Leiden–Boston, 2021.—355pp.	0
Archaeological Analysis of the Two Spearheads from the Territory of Medieval Armenia	0
Lambdacism and the Development of Old Iranian *tin Pashto	0
Ubykh Personal Names	0
Lankarān	0
Laṭxāna (1950–1954), an Intellectual Commune in Quetta (Baluchistan)	0
Far away from Pārsa: Empire, Borders, and Ideology in Achaemenid Bactria	0
A Corpus-Based Study of Alignment in Literary Gorani (Based on the Manuscript 11092 of Dīwān-i Mawlawī)	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
Christoph Baumer, History of the Caucasus, v. 1: At the Crossroads of Empires, London: “I. B. Tauris/Bloomsbury”, 2021—386 pp.	0
On the Etymology of the Avestan Personal Name pourušaspa-	0