ARMENIANS IN THE PERSIANATE WORLD

Edited by Hasmik Kirakosyan, Yerevan, Matenadaran, 2025, 168 p.

The collection examines the Persian lexical material found in late-medieval bilingual Persian–Armenian and Armenian–Persian manuscript dictionaries; the circumstances under which mixed (mulammaʿ) Armenian-Persian-Turkish poetry emerged in 16th–17th-century Armenian peotry within the multicultural Near Eastern milieu; the bridging role of 19th-century Constantinopolitan Armenians and the Iranian intellectuals based in Constantinople in fostering cultural rapprochement between East and West; the teaching of Persian in Armenian schools, the compilation of relevant textbooks, and the introduction of new instructional methods; the use of expressive means of classical Persian poetry in the folk song tradition of the Julfa Armenians who had resettled in India; the establishment of a press for Arabic-script literature in India; and the pedagogical commonalities observed in Armenian and Iranian folk tales. It is intended for philologists, orientalists, students of humanities faculties, and readers interested in the topic.