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The Talyshis: An Iranian people divided by the Araxes by Arakelova, Victoria

“…This paper examines the Talyshi people, an Iranian ethnic group divided by the Araxes River between Azerbaijan and Iran. The division, a result of the…”
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Notes on Language Affinity and Imagined Kinships by Arakelova, Victoria

“…The paper is an attempt to analyse the emergence of virtual “alliances” based on imagined kinship between some ethnic groups and peoples of the…”
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Fereydun Vahman, 175 Years of Persecution. A History of the Babis and Baha’is of Iran, London: “Oneworld Publications”, 2019.−333 pp by Arakelova, Victoria

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Yezidis and Christianity: Shaping of a New Identity by Arakelova, Victoria

“…For the last decades, the Yezidi identity whose main marker was for centuries based on a unique religion, the Sharfadin, has undergone specific…”
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Еще один миф о происхождении езидов by Arakelova, Victoria

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Yezdistan versus Kurdistan: Another Legend on the Origin of the Yezidis by Arakelova, Victoria

“…The paper focuses on the analysis of the term Yezdistan (Ēzdīstān) attested in a Yezidi legend, having obvious parallels with the Shahnameh’s “Tale of Zahhak”…”
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Preface by Arakelova, Victoria

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On the Number of Iranian Turkophones by Arakelova, Victoria

“…The main body of the Iranian Turkophone mass generally consists of two parts: proper Turkic groups (the Turkmens par excellence) and the Turkic-speaking ethnic…”
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On the Shi‘a Constituent in the Yezidi Religious Lore by Asatrian, Garnik, Arakelova, Victoria

“…Built on the Islamic, primarily Sufi substrate, the religious beliefs of the Yezidis incorporate Gnostic, Christian, local pagan elements, and primitive…”
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Еще один миф о происхождении езидов by Arakelova, Victoria

“…The article is an attempt of the analysis of the ethnogenetic myths preserved in the Yezidi folklore. A special focus is made on the third, previously unknown…”
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Ethno-Religious Communities: To the Problem of Identity Markers by Arakelova, Victoria

“…The paper focuses on the phenomenon of ethno-religiousness and, particularly, on the process of the formation of ethno-religious communities. In the spotlight…”
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On the Shi'a Constituent in the Yezidi Religious Lore by Asatrian, Garnik, Arakelova, Victoria

“…Built on the Islamic, primarily Sufi substrate, the religious beliefs of the Yezidis incorporate Gnostic, Christian, local pagan elements, and primitive…”
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On the South Caspian Contact Zone: Some Talishi Folk Beliefs by Asatrian, Garnik, Arakelova, Victoria

“…One of the productive approaches to the analysis of the phenomenon of frontier zones, and the South Caspian region in particular, could be the delimitation of…”
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The Nusayrī-'Alawī Religion: An Introduction to the Religion, History and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria by Arakelova, Victoria

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The Halvori Vank‘: An Armenian Monastery and a Zaza Sanctuary by Arakelova, Victoria, Grigorian, Kristine

“…The Halvori Vank‘, Armenian Surb Karapet (St. John the Precursor) Monastery in Dersim, has for centuries remained one of the most revered holy sites both for…”
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The Hereafter in the Yezidi Beliefs by Arakelova, Victoria, Amrian, Tereza

“…The concept of the Afterlife is not explicitly articulated in the syncretic system of Yezidism. The paper is an attempt to reconstruct, as far as possible, the…”
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Zarathushtra entre l’Inde et l’Iran. Études indo-iraniennes et indo-européennes offertes à Jean Kellens à l’occasion de son 65e anniversaire, É. Pirart et X. Tremblay (eds.), Wiesbaden: “Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag”, 2009, 359 pp by Arakelova, Victoria

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Va⋅fe Xalīje Fārs dar naqšehāye tārīxī [Description of the Persian Gulf in the Historical Maps] by Arakelova, Victoria

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Notes on the Yezidi Religious Syncretism by Arakelova, Victoria

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Three Figures From the Yezidi Folk Pantheon by Arakelova, Victoria

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