Articles, Papers
A. Scholarly Articles
“Yovhan III Ōdznets‘i Saint and Initiator of Armenian Mesopolitan Diplomacy, Hask Armenological Review, XIV(2025), pp. 314-339.
“Nersēs IV Shnorhali: The Legacy in Political Perspective” – On the 850th anniversary of his death, Le Muséon, 1-2, 137 (2024), pp. 171-206.
“St. Nersēs IV Shnorhali the Diplomat” [Surb Nerses IV Shnorhali Diwanagētĕ], Hask Armenological Review, XIII(2024), pp. 169-203.
“Mik‘ayēl Ch‘amch‘eants‘”, in Christian-Muslim Relations ‒ A Bibliographical History, Iran, Afghanistan and the Caucasus (1800-1914), vol. 20, (eds) D. Thomas and J. Chesworth (eds). Leiden: Brill, 2023, pp. 371-393.
"The Armenian Ghurans 1680-2014", Le Muséon, 1-2, 133(2020), pp. 166-205.
“Samuēl Anets‘i and his Continuators”, in Christian-Muslim Relations – A Bibliographical History –The Ottoman and Persian Empires, vol. 12, (eds) D. Thomas and J. Chesworth. Leiden: Brill, 2018,pp.319-339.
“Step‘anos Lehats‘i”, in Christian-Muslim Relations – A Bibliographical History – The Ottoman and Safavid Empires, vol. 10, (eds) D. Thomas and J. Chesworth. Leiden: Brill, 2017, pp. 566-581.
“Cilicia”, in Diaspora and Identity [Spiwṛk‘ ew Ink‘nut‘iwn]. Antelias Lebanon: Catholicosate Publications, Antelias, Lebanon, 2018, pp. 63-98.
“The Move of the Armenian Catholicosate from Armenia to Antelias”, in The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia: History, Treasures, Mission. Editor-Co-Author. Antelias, Lebanon: Catholicosate Publications, 2015, pp. 22-67.
“Matt‘ēos Jughayets‘i”, Christian-Muslim Relations ‒ A Bibliographical History (1350-1500), vol. 5, (eds) D. Thomas and A. Mallet. Leiden: Brill, 2013, pp. 309-313.
“Cilicia: The Philosophical Legacy between East and West”, Hask Armenological Yearbook, vol. XI(2009), pp. 349-384.
“A Phenomenology of Armenian Studies: The Discipline and the ‘National’ Meta-Polis”, Le Muséon, 1-2, 121(2008), pp. 213-229.
“The Chronicle of Michael the Syrian and the Armenian Version of 1248: A Textual Comparison”, Hask Armenological Yearbook, X(2003-2006), pp. 257-275.
“The Nāṣirī Futuwwa Literature and the Brotherhood Poetry of Yohannēs and Konstandin Erzenkats‘i –Texts and Contexts”, in Redefining Christian Identity: Cultural Interaction in the Middle East since the Rise of Islam.(eds.) J. J.Van Ginkel, H. L.Murre - Van Den Berg, T. M. Van Lint. Louvain: Brill, 2005, pp. 237-264.
“The Constitution of the Brotherhood of Erzinjān (1280): An Armenization of the Futuwwa Reform Project and Literature of ‘Abbāsid Caliph al-Nāṣir lī-dīn Allāh”, Revue des Études Arméniennes, NS. 29(2003-2004), pp. 117-165.
“Armenian Persistence: National Identity between Myth and Reality”, Journal of Armenian Studies, VII (Fall-Winter 2002-2003), pp. 77-98.
“The Armenian Catholicosate from Cilicia to Antelias”, in The Contribution of the Armenian Church to the Christian Witness in the Middle East. Editor, Co-Author. Antelias, Lebanon: Catholicosate Publications. 2001, pp. 21-80.
“The Spirituality of the Armenian Church in Armenian Miniatures: Unity of Spirit and Vision”, in The Contribution of the Armenian Church to the Christian Witness in the Middle East. Editor Co-author. Antelias, Lebanon: Catholicosate Publications, 2001. pp. 147-155.
“Islam and Armenian Polemical Strategies at the End of an Era: Matt‘ēos Jughayets'i and Grigor Tat‘evats‘i”, Le Muséon, 3-4, 114(2001), pp. 305-326.
“Feminism in Armenian History: Origins in Medieval Heresies”, Armenian Mind Journal of the Philosophical Academy - National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, 1-2 V(2001), pp. 18-31.
“The Problematic of Dissidence and Heresy in the Making of the National: The Armenian Case in the Medieval Middle East”, Hask Armenological Yearbook of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, IX(1997- 2000), pp. 101-113.
“The Armenian Intermezzo in Bilād al-Shām ‒ 10th to 12th Centuries”, in Syrian Christians under Islam: The First Thousand Years. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2001, pp.159-183.
“Armenians in Contact with Islam - Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries”, In Het Christelijk Oosten (The Christian East), Periodical of the Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Special Issue on Armenia, December 52(2000), pp. 175-199.
“Grigor of Tat‘ew: Treatise against the Tajiks”, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, vol. 7, 2(1996).
“The Phenomenon of the Fāṭimid Armenians”, Medieval Encounters, 2.3(1996). Leiden: E.J. Brill, pp. 193-213.
“Data for the History of Medieval Arab-Armenian Relations”, Haigazian Armenological Review, XII(1992), pp. 339-355.
“A Thirteenth Century Armenian summary of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity (Rasā’il Ikhwān al- Ṣafā’)”, Al-Abḥāth Journal of the American University of Beirut, XXXX(1992), pp. 3-18.
“Footnotes to an Unwritten History of Arab-Armenian Relations”, in Studies in History and Literature. Festschrift in honor of N. A. Ziadeh, London: 1992, pp. 108-119.
“The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity as the Sources of John of Erzenka’s ‘Views’”. Journal of Yerevan State University, I(1991), pp. 63-78.
“The Problem of the Sources of John of Erzenka’s Views”, Journal of the Department of Humanities of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, II(1991), pp. 22- 43.
“Indra - Diran Ch‘rakian ‒ The ‘Pallid Atlas’ of West Armenian thought”, Hask Armenological Yearbook of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, IV-V(1983-1984), pp. 179-218.
“Shahan Berberian ‒ Philosophy of art”, Hask Armenological Yearbook of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, II-III (1982), pp. 85-110.
“David Invictus: Refutation of Pyrrhonian Skepticism”, Hask Armenological Yearbook of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, I(1980), pp. 73-90.
“T‘oros Ṛoslin and Sargis Pitsak”, Haigazian Armenological Review, VIII(1981), pp. 235-252.
“A Survey of the History of Armenian Painting in Lebanon”, Haigazian Armenological Review, VII(1981), pp. 315-352.
“Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’: The Source of John of Erznka’s 'Views from the Writings of Islamic Philosophers’”, Haigazian Armenological Review, VI(1977-78), pp. 51-70.
B. Reference Articles
“Yovhannēs Erznkats‘i-Bluz”, Christian-Muslim Relations - A Bibliographical History (1200-1350), vol. 4 (eds)D. Thomas and A. Mallet. Leiden: Brill, 2012, pp. 572-578.
“The Fāṭimid Armenians”, Christian-Muslim Relations - A Bibliographical History (900-1050), vol. 2. (eds) D. Thomas and A. Malle. Leiden: Brill, 2011, pp. 25-27.
“Bahrām al-Armani”, Encyclopedia of Islam, III(2011). Leiden: Brill, 2011, pp. 63-64.
“Badr al-Jamālī”, Encyclopedia of Islam, III(2010). Leiden: Brill, pp. 133-134.
“Yānis”, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, XI (2007). Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 281–282.
“A Concise Philosophical Glossary in the West Armenian Dialect”, Hask Armenological Yearbook of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, IV-V(1983-1984), pp. 219-234.
C. Conference Papers
“In Quest of Historical Geoglyphs: Islam in Armenian Literary Culture. Texts, Contexts, Dynamics (Louvain: Peeters, 2021), 15th General Conference of the Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes Martin Luther University, 2-4 September 2021, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
“Cilicia – A Historical Overview with Respect to National Identity Formation there” – International Conference on ‘The Disapora facing new horizons and the self-consciousness of the Armenians there’, organized by the Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia, July 11-14, 2017, Bikfaya, Lebanon.
“The Cycle of Mahmet Legends. The Armenian Muḥammad” – Workshop on Armenian Folklore and Mythology - AIEA, SAS and Harvard Program in Armenian Studies, August 31 - September 1, 2013, Boston, MA.
“Philosophy in the Process of Modernizing of Armenian Studies”– Round Table on ‘Philosophy in the 21st Century’ – On the Occasion of UNESCO World Philosophy Day in Armenia – Khach‘atur Abovyan Teachers’ State University of Yerevan, Nov. 18, 2011, Yerevan, Armenia.
“The Message of the UNESCO World Philosophy Day and its Armenization” – UNESCO World Philosophy Day in Armenia – Khach‘atur Abovyan Teachers’ State University of Yerevan (Petakan Mankavarjakan Hamalsaran), November, 17, 2011, Yerevan.
“Rethinking Armenian History through Paradigms of Interaction: The Armenian Experience with Islam as Case Study”, AIEA 35th Anniversary -12th General Conference, Center for East Mediterranean Studies - Central European University, October 6-8, 2011, Budapest, Hungary.
“The Condition Western of Armenian: Problematic Dimensions and Solutions” – International Conference on the Condition of Western Armenian: Challenges and Proposals, Seminary of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, August 18-20, 2011, Bikfaya, Lebanon.
“Conceptualizing the Armenian Experience in the Late Medieval Islamic World: The Armenians of Bilād al-Shām 10th – 15th Centuries as a Major Case Study”, Les Arméniens dans le Bilād al-Shām entre Integration et Marginalization, Xème siècle – XVème siècle – Conference organized by L’Institut Oriental Français at Damascus, October 7-8, 2009, Holy Cross Center, Aleppo, Syria.
“From the ‘Medīnan Oaths’ to the Shāh’s ‘Compact’ for New Julfa-Isfahan, and the Ottoman Rescripts: The Record of Islamic-Armenian Protocols” – International Conference on Armenia and Armenians in International Treatises,Armenian Studies Program, University of Michigan, March 19-21, 2009, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
“Cilicia ‒The Philosophical Legacy between East and West”, The Culture of Armenian Cilicia – Conference organized by the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia and Mashtots’ National Matenadaran of Yerevan, January 16-21, 2008, Antelias, Lebanon.
“Amoralizing the Phenomenon of Muslim Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World” – Conversion as Society, Panel on Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Conversion in Caucasia and Central Eurasia, University of Washington, October 18-21 2007, Seattle, Washington.
“Towards a Philosophy of Armenian Education" ‒ Teachers’ Conference, The Eastern Diocese, July 17, 2006, New York.
“Teaching Armenian Culture through the Arts” ‒ Teachers’ Conference, The Eastern Diocese, July 21, 2006, New York.
“The Impact of Armenian Women on the Armenian Church” ‒ Yearly Conference of Hye Geen- AGBU – LA Chapter, February 12, 2005, Los Angeles, CA.
“The Transformation of Cultural Paradigms” ‒ AIWA 4th International Conference-on Armenian Women Today, October 24-27, 2004, Geneva, Switzerland.
“Conceptualizing and De-conceptualizing Armenology: Theses for a Critique of Armenian Studies” ‒ First International Conference on Armenology: Armenology Today and Prospects for its Development, September 15-20, 2003, Yerevan, Armenia.
“The spirituality of the Armenian Church in the Armenian Miniatures: Unity of Spirit and Vision" ‒ International Conference on Armenian Spirituality: A Contextual Study for our Times, Bossey Ecumenical Institute, June 25-July 1, 2001, Geneva, Switzerland.
“Armenian Spirituality: The Philosophical Dimension” ‒ International Conference on Armenian Spirituality: A Contextual Study for our Times - Bossey Ecumenical Institute, June-July, 2001, Geneva, Switzerland.
“Medieval Armenian Art. The role of the Armenian Church in the Promotion of Culture” – International Conference on the 1700th Anniversary of Armenian Christianity ‒ The Contribution of the Armenian Church to the Christian Witness in the Middle East, May 25-26, 2001, Beirut, Lebanon.
“The Problematic of Dissidence and Heresy in the Making of the National: The Armenian Case in the Medieval Middle East”– ASN (Association for the Study of Nationalities) Sixth Annual World Convention on ‘Nation Making, Past and Present Community, Economy, Security’, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 5-7 April 2001, New York.
“Technology and Women in the ESCWA Region: Strategies between Local Actuality and Global Virtuality” ‒ Expert Group Meeting of the Technology Section of the United Nations-ESCWA, November 1-3, 2000, Beirut, Lebanon.
“Feminism in Armenian History: Origins in Medieval Heresies” – AIWA Third International Conference, October 8-11, 2000, Yerevan, Armenia.
“Islamic Forms in Bagratid Armenia; Armenian Forms in Fatimid Egypt” ‒ 20th Congress of the UEAI (Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants), September 10-17, 2000, Budapest, Hungary.
“The Armenian Meta-System and the Near Eastern Diaspora” – Workshop on Minorities in the Middle East: Cultural Persistence and Globalization, The Oriental Institute, Martin Luther University, September 6, 2000, Halle/Wittenberg, Germany. See Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte, 2(2001) of Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum.
“The Philosophical Legacy of Medieval Armenian Sects - 4th to 14th Centuries: A Critique” ‒ International Conference on Armenia 2000, Martin Luther University, September 1-10, 2000, Halle/Wittenberg, Germany.
“The Armenian Version of the Chronicle of Michael the Syrian”, International Symposium on the Occasion of the 800th Anniversary of the Death of Michael the Syrian, Patriarch of Antioch, October 1-8, 1999, Ma‘arrat Saydnaya, Damascus, Syria.
“Islam and Armenian Polemical Strategies at the End of an Era” – Eighth AIEA (Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes) General Conference, September 29 – October 1, 1999, Vienna, Austria.
“The Nāṣirī Futuwwa Literature and the Brotherhood Poetry of Yovhannēs and Kostandin Erznkats‘i: Texts and Contexts”, Symposium organized by the Universities of Groningen and Leiden on Redefining Christian Identity - Christian Cultural Strategies since the Rise of Islam , April 7-10, 1999, Groningen, The Netherlands.
“The Armenian Intermezzo in Bilād al-Shām: 10th to 12th centuries”, Third Woodbrooke Mingana Symposium – Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Selly Oak Colleges, September 7 –11, 1998, Birmingham, England.
“Islam and the Armenian Universe: Historicity and Historic Models”, Paper at the 19th Congress of the UEAI (Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants), Martin Luther University, August 30 - September 4, 1998, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
“The Armenian Brotherhoods and the Futuwwa and Akhī Organizations in the Medieval Islamic World. Studies in Near Eastern Urbanism” – Conference on Muslim Arab Civilization: The Non-Muslim Dimension, Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, August 16-21, 1997, Amman, Jordan.
“Grigor Tat‘ewats‘i: Treatise against the Tajiks” – Workshop on Muslim Perceptions of Christian Perceptions of Islam, The Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, August, 1995, Amman, Jordan.
“The Phenomenon of Fāṭimid Armenians” ‒ Second Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam- Coptic Arabic Christianity before the Ottomans: Text and Context- Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, September 1994, Birmingham, England.
D. Articles in Literary Journals and Publications
“Banyan trees and an ancient people in perpetual self-creation”, Armenian Weekly, March 6, 2024.
“An ‘alternative view’ on things Armenian”, Armenian Weekly, February 13, 2024.
“Making Art in Wartime Lebanon”, Armenian Weekly, January 30, 2024.
“Encounters and Convergences. A Book of Ideas and Art”, Part I, Armenian Weekly, January 16, 2024.
“Armenian Studies as Near/Middle Eastern Studies” - Islam in Armenian Literary Culture. Texts, Contexts, Dynamics (Louvain: Peeters, 2021), Armenian Weekly, Sep. 13, 2021.
“Armenian Studies as Near/Middle Eastern Studies” - Islam in Armenian Literary Culture. Texts, Contexts, Dynamics (Louvain: Peeters, 2021) (Hayagitut‘iwně ibrew Merdzawor-Mijin Arewelean Gitut‘iwn
“Իսլամը Հայ Գրական Մշակոյթին մէջ” (Islam in Armenian Literary Culture). Armenian Weekly, August 11, 2021.
“Իսլամը Հայ Գրական Մշակոյթին մէջ” (Islam in Armenian Literary Culture). Aztag, June 20, 2021.
“The Year of Armenian Studies: NAASR (National Association for Armenian Studies) Oct. 2002, Yerevan, September 2003, AIEA Venice/ Lecce Oct. 2003, Journal of Armenian Studies, vol. VIII, 2, Fall(2006), pp. 3-15.
“The Armenian Meta-System and the Near Eastern Diaspora”, Workshop on Cultural Resistance and Globalization), in Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte, 2(2001) of Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum. pp. 1-18.
“Die Armenier und die islamische welt Paradigmen sozio-politischer Interaktion”, Armenisch-Deutsche Korrepondenz, 2(2000 #108), pp. 33-35.
“A Unique Phenomenon in Arab-Armenian Cultural Relations during the 13th Century”, Journal of Yerevan State University, II(1990), pp. 11-26.