INPUT
OF ARMENIANS IN THE HISTORY OF EARLY MEDIEVAL AND MODERN EGYPT
(with numerous photographs and illustrations; in Armenian)
Date of publication: 2004
Published by the Association of Armenians fromEgypt,
Québec,Canada
Synopsis
of Book
This
is a richly illustrated study of the Armenian involvement in the
politico-military and cultural developments of 11th and 12th centuries, as well
as the input of Armenians in the politico-economic evolution of modernEgypt,
the overhaul of its legal system and the reform of its educational system.
The
book dwells in depth on the achievements of prominent Egyptian-Armenians, among
them Boghos Bey Yousoufian, Noubar Pasha Noubarian, Dikran Pasha D'Abro,
Ya'coub Artin Pasha Tcherakian and Boghos Noubar Pasha Noubarian.
There are also chapters about the involvement of Armenians in the development
of light and heavy industry and the commerce ofEgypt
as well as its educational, social and artistic life.
TO ORDER: Contact HSZPublications at www.hszpub.com
(11/22/04)
TWO CHRONICLES ON THE HISTORY
OF KARABAGH
by G. BOURNOUTIAN
Mazda
Academic Press, 2004
Communicated by Barlow Der Murgdechian to
Society of Armenian Studies List
George Bournoutian's new book, "Two Chronicles on the History of
Karabagh" has been published by Mazda Academic Press. The study is an annotated English translation of two Muslim historians, Mirza
Jamal and Mirza Adigozal Beg, who in the first half of the 19th century
wrote histories of Karabagh. Contrary to current Azeri claims, both
sources detail a strong Armenian presence in Karabagh centuries
before the Russian conquest of the region. Azeri academics, led by
the late Ziya Buniatov, have removed most references of an Armenian
presence in Karabagh in new editions of these and other primary
sources. Bournoutian has used the original manuscripts in Baku and
has indicated the expunged material. In addition, the book contains
various other primary non-Armeian sourcesand, for the sake of objectivity, is practically devoid of works by Armenian historians. The
300 page book includes an introduction , glossary, five maps, and an
index. It can be obtained from NAASR or form Mazda Press in early
October.
(08/10/04)
01/ Altarmenische Kurzgrammatik
Van Damme, Dirk / Böhm, Thomas
Reihe:
Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis Subsidia linguistica, Band 1
Armenien liegt am Schnittpunkt
zwischen Europa und Asien, zwischen Orient und Okzident. Die armenische
Kultur konnte dennoch in diesem konfliktreichen Raum ihre Eigenständigkeit
und Identität bewahren. Dies liegt nicht zuletzt an der besonderen Sprache
und Schrift. Nachdem im 5. Jh. ein eigenes Alphabet speziell für die Bedürfnisse
dieser indoeuropäischen Sprache entwickelt worden war, wurden zunächst
Übersetzungen der Hl. Schrift und anderer griechischer Werke angefertigt.
Alsbald wurde auch selbstständige Literatur verfasst: das "goldene Zeitalter"
der armenischen Kultur beginnt. Um den Einstieg in diese faszinierende
Sprache und Literatur zu ermöglichen, wird nun diese Kurzgrammatik des
klassischen Armenisch vorgelegt. Sie schliesst eine Lücke auf dem deutschsprachigen
Markt, denn ein solches Werk existierte bislang nicht.
X-150
Seiten, broschiert,
Fr. 38.-
ISBN 3-7278-1462-4
For moore information: http://www.paulusedition.ch/catalog/more_academic.php?id=909_0_2_0_M46
(13/09/04)
Armenia in Ancient Maps of the World
comprising 4 books in one volume:
BOOK 1: The text: History of cartography from 600 BC to 2000 AD.
BOOK 2: Armenia in maps: This book provides pages from the history of
Armenia.
BOOK 3: Armenia wiped of maps: The story of the Armenian Genocide.
BOOK 4: Hors Text Maps: Description of the maps, such as mapmakers,
the date and the place of origin etc. Quick search for Maps,
Bibliography, and Index.
I am delighted to share with you the introduction of my
new book, a valuable work published for the first time, under the title
of "Armenia in Ancient Maps of the World". It is a
comprehensive reference book that provides a fascinating and informative
guide for the History of Cartography and mapmakers. This volume depicts
a particular aspect of Armenia and its presence in world maps, when
others would have it eradicated from the geography and the memory.
To learn more about Armenia in Maps, Please visit www.kronotech.com/Armenia
Price: $65.00 USA, $75.00 CAN (Add $10.00 shipping and handling)
Ordering Info:
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Laval, Quebec
H7V 3Z7 Canada
Email: btekeyan@kronotech.com
Phone: (450) 682-1105
(25/07/04)
"ARMENIAN PARADIGMS" PUBLISHED
Gregory Sterling ARMENIAN PARADIGMS,
revised and edited by Michael E. Stone
This 43-page publication provides paradigms and tables
of the grammatical forms of Ancient Armenian. In his introduction, Professor
Sterling says: "The paradigms are intended to serve as a pedagogical
aid. ...I have tried to keep in mind the requirements of beginning students
who need to learn the paradigms and refer back to them."
It is an invaluable tool both for the beginner and for
the advanced student who needs quick and easy reference to the forms
of Ancient Armenian verbs and nouns.
It is the first work of its type and takes its place alongside
the grammars of Ancient Armenian that have been published in recent
years. Reviewed by distinguished Armenian linguists, it was revised
and supplemented by Michael E. Stone.
Available from: Peeters, Bondgenotenlaan 153, B-3000 Leuven,
Belgium.
http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=7681
email: Peeters@peeters-leuven.be
(04/07/04)
A Concordance of The Armenian Apocryphal Adam Books by M.E. Stone
Leuven 2001, Peeters. ISBN 90-429-0941-2. 40 EURO
The study of the Adam literature has taken an increasingly
central role in the study of ancient Judaism and Christianity. It is
the role of Adam and Eve as paradigmatic of the human condition that
gives this literature its special role. This second volume of concordances
of the Armenian apocryphal Adam books makes this important collection
of Armenian medieval texts available to scholars. Lipscomb's edition
is now fully accessible. The Armenians were particularly productive
of literature relating to the first created human beings, and in their
literary creations they reveal both their imaginative creativity and
their theological and conceptual sensitivities.
Stone has published numerous texts and studies relating to the Armenian
apocrypha. This is the second volume of a projected three-volume set.
Medieval Armenian Architecture. Constructions of Race and Nation by
C. Maranci
Leuven 2001, Peeters. ISBN 90-429-0939-0. 45 EURO
The monuments of medieval Armenia have been interpreted
variously over the centuries as Gothic, Byzantine, Iranian, and "Saracen".
However, few scholars have offered satisfactory answers regarding their
origins and relations to other architectural traditions. This study
examines the scholarship on the subject in East and West and offers
a persuasive explanation for the current scholarly impasse. Maranci
highlights Josef Strzygowski (1865-1941), a prominent figure in the
Vienna School of art history who was closely allied to the pan-German
movements of the early twentieth century. Using unpublished archival
materials as well as Strzygowski's numerous publications, the author
shows how the ideology of race and nation pervaded Strzygowski's theories
of art, and how his ideas and persona have informed - and inhibited
- subsequent generations of scholars. The concluding chapter outlines
a revised study of Armenian architecture, moving from issues of architectural
style to contextual inquiries of patronage and cross-cultural exchange.
As a detailed survey of medieval monuments and as a historiographical
case study, the work addresses a broad audience: not just art historians
but all readers interested in how ideology shapes our critical faculties.
The Armenian Adaptation of the Ecclesiastical History of Socrates
Scholasticus by R.W. Thomson
Leuven 2001, Peeters. ISBN 90-429-1027-5. 45 EURO
The Ecclesiastical History by Socrates Scholasticus had
an unusual transmission in Armenia. In 695, the first translation (made
in the sixth century) was completely revised. It was much abbreviated
and changed, while at the same time additions of various kinds were
introduced. Now, for the first time, that adapted text of the Ecclesiastical
History is translated from the classical Armenian.
In this English rendering all the additions to the original text are
highlighted and studied from the perspective of earlier Armenian literary
and theological traditions. The Introduction assesses the possible motives
for this adaptation of a well-known History at the end of the seventh
century. Similar Armenian reworkings of foreign Histories --the Georgian
Chronicles and the Syriac Chronicle of the Patriarch Michael -- are
much later.
Within Armenia the secondary version of Socrates became more influential
than the first, more exact translation. The present book is thus of
value for the study of Armenian history and theology in the period following
the break with the imperial church of Constantinople.
(30/05/04)
E' USCITO / PUBLISHED
Gli Armeni e Venezia
Dagli Sceriman a Mechitar:
il momento culminante di una consuetudine millenaria
Atti del Convegno internazionale di studio
promosso dall'ISTITUTO VENETO DI SCIENZE, LETTERE ED ARTI
nel III centenario della fondazione della Congregazione Mechitarista
dei padri Armeni di Venezia (Venezia, 11-13 ottobre 2001),
a cura di
Boghos Levon Zekiyan e Aldo Ferrari
formato 15,7 x 24
296 pp., 26,00
ISBN 88-88143-16-5
Il volume intende
illustrare i rapporti intercorsi tra la citta di Venezia e la comunita
armena, la quale ha agganci lontani con la storia della Serenissima.
Tale relazione non si esauri con la caduta della Repubblica, ma si intensifico
nel corso dellOttocento, per giungere, confusa con il destino della
stessa civilta lagunare, fino ai nostri giorni. Chiamando a raccolta
studiosi di varie discipline - dalla storia, alla letteratura, all'architettura,
all'economia, alla religione, all'educazione -, il volume mette in luce
i molteplici aspetti che largomento presenta. Possiamo, percio, affermare
che la storia degli Armeni fa anche parte della storia di Venezia e
che, a sua volta, la vicenda di questultima e legata strettamente ai
discepoli di Mechitar e ai loro discendenti.
Indice del volume:
Presentazione; Saluto del Presidente dellIstituto Veneto; Saluto del
Sindaco di Venezia; Saluto dell'Abate Generale della Congregazione Mechitarista;
Prefazione al volume; Nota redazionale; Sistema di traslitterazioni
dellArmeno; Gherardo Ortalli, Tra Venezia e l'Armenia. Alle radici
di un lungo rapporto; Gino Benzoni, Venezia: la citta della mescidanza;
Giorgio Nubar Gianighian, I segni di una presenza; Giampiero
Bellingeri, Sugli Sceriman rimasti a Giulfa: devozione agli ultimi
Safavidi?; Edmund Herzig, Venice and the Julfa Armenian merchants;
Gilberto Pizzamiglio, Zaccaria Seriman nella cultura veneziana del
Settecento; Claudio Gugerotti, La figura e lopera di Mechitar nella
cultura armena e nel contesto della cultura europea e cristiana;
Boghos Levon Zekiyan, La visione di Mechitar del mondo e della chiesa:
una weltanschauungtra teologia e umanesimo; Raymond H. Kevorkian,
Mechitar Sebastac´i et limprimerie armenienne a Venise;
Gevor Ter-Vardanian, Le opere dellAbate Mechitar e la cultura letteraria
armena del suo tempo; Gabriella Uluhogian, Tra documentazione
e filologia: le scuole mechitariste di Venezia e Vienna; Paola Mildonian,
Autori e traduttori e mechiatristi; Antonia Arslan, A scuola
dai Mechitaristi: le scuole mechitariste nel Veneto protagoniste del
risveglio armeno dellOttocento.
ISTITUTO VENETO
DI SCIENZE, LETTERE ED ARTI
30124 VENEZIA Palazzo Loredan - Campo S. Stefano 2945
tel. 041 24 07 711 fax 041 52 10 598
ivsla@istitutoveneto.it
www.istitutoveneto.it
(12/05/04)
The Chronicle of Zak`aria of K`anak`er: Annotated Translation with
comments by George A. Bournoutian
Deacon Zak`aria (1627-ca.1699) was a native of K`anak`er,
who lived and wrote in the great monastry of Hovjhannavank` in the K`asagh
region of the Khanate of Erevan. The Chronicle is written in the spoken
dialect of Erevan, mixed with the late classical and vernacular Armenian
and abounds with Persian and Turkish words. Books I-II describe the
political and socioeconomic conditions in Transcaucasia and Anastolia
in the second half of the 17th century. Book II covers the history and
kondak (cartulary) of Hovhannavank`. The Chronicle is an important primary
source on the history of Persia, Ottoman Empire, Georgia, and Armenia
at the height of the three Muslim empires, the Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal.
The Chronicle of Zak`aria of K`anak`er: Annotated Translation
with comments by George A. Bournoutian 360 pp. Mazda Publishers, $35,
includes glossary, 2 maps, one plate, bibliography, and index.
(05/05/04)
Extracted from Groong News Network / Groong
Lepsius archives' Edition on Armenian Genocide & Armen. Relief
Work
German Lepsius Archives' Edition on Armenian Genocide and Armenian
Relief Work in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Lebanon
Now Completed on the Occasion of 24 April 2004, Armenian Martyrs'
Day
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Dr Johannes Lepsius Archives
Prof. Dr. Hermann Goltz
D-06099 Halle an der Saale, Germany
Every year on April 24, Armenian people along with other
nations commemorate the 1.5 millions of victims of the Armenian genocide
in Ottoman Turkey during World War I. Between 1895 and 1925, as part
of an intended 'ethnic cleansing' in Asia Minor, the Turkish rulers
organized various huge massacres among the Armenians as well as other
large non-Turkish minorities.
In this context we would like to draw your attention to
an edition, published by K.G. Saur Verlag (Munich), Deutschland, Armenien
und die Turkei 1895-1925 (Germany, Armenia and Turkey 1895-1925), Ed.
Hermann Goltz. Extensively documenting the relationships among these
three countries from 1895 to 1925, this publication provides first-time
access to numerous hitherto unknown documents on facts and backgrounds
regarding the Armenian massacres and genocide as well as international
relief work to secure the survival of the Armenian deportees.
The edition is based on the resources held by the Dr.
Johannes-Lepsius-Archiv at the Martin Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg,
now published for the first time in such an extensive manner. Dr. Johannes
Lepsius (1858-1926), an independent Protestant theologian and founder
of the German Orient Mission (Deutsche Orient-Mission) as well as the
German Armenian Relief organization (Armenisches Hilfswerk) dedicated
his life's work to the salvation of the Armenian population in Turkey,
Iran, Syria, Lebanon and on the Balkans. Striving to gain support in
favour of Armenian self-determination, he also attempted to mediate
between Armenians, Turks, Russians and Germans.
Supported by the Deutsche VolkswagenStiftung, this three-part
edition comprises a catalogue, a microfiche edition and a subject dictionary.
Upon publication of the latter, the edition of the Lepsius archives
is completed.
The catalogue records the resources of the archive, including
Lepsius' correspondence as well as the official documents and publications
of his Armenisches Hilfswerk. In addition, this volume also includes
a detailed bibliography of all articles of 13 periodicals published
by Lepsius and his relief organization. All the periodicals containing
these essays are now extremely rare and difficult to find.
The microfiche edition provides a full text version of
extensive, hitherto unpublished documents, eye witness reports, flyers,
as well as Lepsius classical documentations 'Armenien und Europa' (`Armenia
and Europe') (1896), 'Bericht ueber die Lage des armenischen Volkes
in der Turkei' ('Report on the Situation of the Armenian People in Turkey')
(1916), and 'Deutschland und Armenien 1914-1918' ('Germany and Armenia
1914-1918') (1919), plus all 13 periodicals bibliographically recorded
in the catalogue.
The Subject Dictionary of Individuals, Institutions, Places
and Events (Thematisches Lexikon) gives access to the contents of both
documents and journals by providing alphabetically structured articles
on individuals and subjects. You will find in the Dictionary also all
the names of the Armenian orphans, occurring in the Lepsius archives.
The Dictionary provides extensive links to relevant documents and articles
of the Lepsius periodicals.
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Bibliographical information on the Lepsius trilogy, now completed in
the memory of the Armenian victims and survivors
Deutschland, Armenien und die Turkei 1895-1925
Dokumente und Zeitschriften aus dem Dr. Johannes-Lepsius-Archiv
an der Martin-Luther-Universit?t Halle-Wittenberg
(Germany, Armenia and Turkey 1895-1925 Documents and Periodicals from
the Dr. Johannes-Lepsius-Archiv at the Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg)
Edited by Hermann Goltz, Munich, K. G. Saur Publishing house
3 parts. Complete set: Euro 2,556.00
ISBN 3-598-34406-6
Part 1: Catalogue. Documents and Periodicals from the Lepsius Archives
Compiled and edited by Hermann Goltz and Axel Meissner
Munich, K. G. Saur Publishing house
Hardbound. XXVIII, 622 pages.
Free of charge for purchasers of the microfiche edition
ISBN 3-598-34407-4
Part 2: Microfiche Edition of the Documents and Periodicals from the
Lepsius Archives
Compiled by Hermann Goltz and Axel Meissner, in cooperation with Ute
Blaar, Jana Buettner and Leonore Kratzsch, Munich, K. G. Saur
Publishing house Microfiche edition. C. 40,000 pages on 317 silver
fiches incl. index brochure.
Reader factor 24 X
ISBN 3-598-34408-2
Part 3: Subject Dictionary of Individuals, Institutions, Places,
Events (found in the documents and Periodicals of the Lepsius Archives)
Compiled and edited by Hermann Goltz and Axel Meissner
Munich, K. G. Saur Publishing house
Hardbound. XIII, 605 pages.
ISBN 3-598-34409-0
Contact:
goltz@theologie.uni-halle.de
(27/04/04)
Archives Sirarpie Der Nersessian: Catalogue
The Institut de Recherche dur le Miniatures Armeno-Byzantines
is pleased to announce the 2003 publication of the first volume of Archives
Sirarpie Der Nersessian: Catalogue by Sylvia Agemian. This work
will make accessible to researchers and the public the remarkable scholarship
undertaken by Professor Der Nersessian during a long and profitable
life devoted to Armenian and Byzantine history and art.
Sylvia Agemian, a close associate of Sirarpie Der Nersessian
during her last years, has organized the entire corpus of files and
unpublished notes kept by her mentor. She has created an invaluable
tool for the study of Armenian art, as this book serves as a finding
aid to the Der Nersessian files and notes. The book also includes a
fascinating chronological biography of Prof. Der Nersessian's remarkable
life, with personal family photographs.
Prof. Der Nersessian's archives were willed to the Matenadaran,
the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, in Yerevan, Armenia. Thanks to
the permission of the Director, Sen Arevshatian, a duplicate copy of
the entire archives was made and is now kept in Paris with the Institut
de Recherche dur le Miniatures Armeno-Byzantines: Fonds Sirarpie Der
Nersessian. IRMAB sponsored the work of compiling the present volume
with the patronage of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon,
Portugal, and the Catholicossate of Cilicia in Antelias, Lebanon. A
second volume is in preparation.
The book can be ordered through:
Librarie Orientale Samuelian
51, rue Monsieur le Prince
F-75006 Paris
France
Tel: (33) 1-43-26-88-65
Fax: (33) 1-43-25-79-13
The cost is 35 Euros plus shipping charges.
or Catholicossate of Cilicia
Antellias, Lebanon
(23/04/04)
New Book Published by
the Mekhitarist Congregation of San Lazzaro
The Mekhitarist Congregation of San Lazzaro (Venice) is pleased to announce
the publication of the long-awaited Volume 2 of Armenian Miniature
Paintings of the Monastic Library at San Lazzaro. The first volume
by Fr. Mesrop Chanashean was published in 1966, but the second volume
was not completed as scheduled due to his untimely death. Through the
efforts of a number of monks at San Lazzaro over the ensuing years,
volume 2 was finally published in 2000-2001. This oversize book includes
117 full-page color plates reproducing illuminations from twenty-eight
manuscripts ranging in date from the 12th to the 17th centuries, all
from the collection of San Lazzaro. The preface and illustration captions
are in Armenian, Italian, French and English, while the main text is
in Armenian.
The book can be ordered by sending a Fax to the monastery
to the attention of Father Vertanes Uluhogian at (39) (041) 52-68-690.
You may also telephone him for further information at (39) (041) 52-60-104,
or send an e-mail to: casaeditricearmena@tin.it
A check in US dollars drawn on a US bank can be used for
payment, but they cannot accept credit cards. Checks should be made
out to "Casa Editrice Armena." The price is US $500 (or 400
Euros), and postage is additional.
(23/04/04)
Historical Dictionary of Armenia
by Rouben Paul Adalian
The author is an American academic historian, well known
and active from coast to coast. The volume starts with two maps, one
historical and one contemporary, and a thirtyseven page chronology from
the 15th century B.C. to the present. The Introduction deals very briefly
with Armenia's physical geographical background and its contemporary
population statistics, including ethnic composition. There follows a
thirty-seven page narrative chronology of Armenia's history, half of
it devoted to the twentieth century. Only then comes the Dictionary
properly speaking, arranged alphabetically, not chronologically. Any
entry is subsequently highlighted whenever mentioned again in another
entry to alert the reader to the availability of additional related
information. This cross referencing condenses the volume of the dictionary
while at the same time facilitating the reader's desire to form broader
views on various subjects. This is especially true of long term historical,
cultural and religious developments, stretching over one or two thousand
years. Consequently, even if the Dictionary is essentially focused on
the modern era, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, we are also
informed about the distant, sometimes very ancient roots of certain
events and trends. A series of historical maps and a collection of photographs
of historical buildings (even if most of them are today highly deteriorated)
would have greatly enhanced the portrayal of the continuity and change
in Armenia's history which was so powerfully affected by the shifting
of the territorial location of the country's heartland between the Mediterranean
and the northern summits of the Caucasus, with related changes in who
were Armenia's neighbors, friends or enemies, conquerors and rulers.
On the whole the volume is highly successful in providing us with a
broad and reliable socio-historical background to the politically still
quite unsettled and economically devastated present day Armenia, which
reemerged as an independent state only recently, after suffering many
centuries of total subservience to, and partition by, Persia, the Ottoman
Empire, and Russia, causing mass emigrations already long before the
holocaust of the early part of the last century virtually emptied the
historical core of Armenia of Armenians.
Last but not least, the excellent thirty-eight page bibliography must
be mentioned. Multilingual, but with an emphasis on English language
sources, it has a table of contents. The "General" section
refers to albums, atlases, bibliographies, dictionaries, etc. The "Historical"
section, by far the longest, is divided into periods. The "Armenian
Genocide" is a separate three page section. The "Cultural"
section includes architecture and arts as well as literature and linguistics.
The "Societal" section includes "Church and Religion,"
"Diaspora," "Survivor Accounts," and "Travel
Accounts." The"Political" is quite long while the "Economic"
one is surprisingly short, indicating a lack of serious interest in
the subject by the Armenian society and, by the same token, hinting
why the economic policies of the post-independence Armenian governments
have been so unsteady and have produced such disappointing results.
The Historical Dictionary of Armenia should not fail to find
a spot on the shelves of every college and public library in the English-speaking
world as well as in the bookcases of every home where interest in the
Near-Eastern roots of Western civilization continues to be cultivated.
Lanham, Maryland and Oxford (Asian-Oceanian Historical Dictionaries,
No. 41),
Scarecrow Press, 2002. 550 pages, maps. US$75.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8108-4677-2
Ladis K.D. Kristof
Portland State University (Emeritus)
(23/04/04)
Formore information contact the Armenian Studies office
Phone: 972-2-588-3651 or
Email: JerusalemArmenian@h2.hum.huji.ac.il
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