The History of Armenia

Payaslian, Simon

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“…4 and supplementary figs. S5–6, Supplementary Material online and table 1) is particularly bewildering because Armenians and Georgians are very similar populations that share a similar genetic background (Schonberg et al 2011) and long history of cultural relations (Payaslian 2007). We speculate that there is a small Middle Eastern ancestry in Armenians that does not exist in Georgians and is likely responsible for the high genetic similarity between Armenians and European Jews (supplementary fig.…”

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The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses

Elhaik

2012

Genome Biology and Evolution

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The question of Jewish ancestry has been the subject of controversy for over two centuries and has yet to be resolved. The “Rhineland hypothesis” depicts Eastern European Jews as a “population isolate” that emerged from a small group of German Jews who migrated eastward and expanded rapidly. Alternatively, the “Khazarian hypothesis” suggests that Eastern European Jews descended from the Khazars, an amalgam of Turkic clans that settled the Caucasus in the early centuries CE and converted to Judaism in the 8th century. Mesopotamian and Greco–Roman Jews continuously reinforced the Judaized empire until the 13th century. Following the collapse of their empire, the Judeo–Khazars fled to Eastern Europe. The rise of European Jewry is therefore explained by the contribution of the Judeo–Khazars. Thus far, however, the Khazars’ contribution has been estimated only empirically, as the absence of genome-wide data from Caucasus populations precluded testing the Khazarian hypothesis. Recent sequencing of modern Caucasus populations prompted us to revisit the Khazarian hypothesis and compare it with the Rhineland hypothesis. We applied a wide range of population genetic analyses to compare these two hypotheses. Our findings support the Khazarian hypothesis and portray the European Jewish genome as a mosaic of Near Eastern-Caucasus, European, and Semitic ancestries, thereby consolidating previous contradictory reports of Jewish ancestry. We further describe a major difference among Caucasus populations explained by the early presence of Judeans in the Southern and Central Caucasus. Our results have important implications for the demographic forces that shaped the genetic diversity in the Caucasus and for medical studies.

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The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses

Elhaik

2012

Genome Biology and Evolution

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“…There are many questions yet to be answered, but evidence revealed in this study proves that the transition between religious categories was far more sinuous than previously imagined. In fact Armenian historians readily note the influence of Persian culture on early Armenian politics, culture, and even language (Payaslian 2007), and emerging scholarship investigates cultural fluidity among Seljuk period Armenian communities (Goshgarian 2008).…”

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Armenian Women, Legal Bargaining, and Gendered Politics of Conversion in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Aleppo

Semerdjian¹

2016

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

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A B S T R A C T This article examines the legal bargaining of Armenian women in the dual Armenian and Islamic legal system in Aleppo. This study based on twenty-two cases of Armenian conversion to Islam informs how conversion, while rare, affected women who found themselves suddenly married to Muslim men and mothers of Muslim children. The archives document women who appeared in the sharia court seeking either to remain tied to their religious communities by resisting conversion or to escape unwanted marriages through conversion to Islam. Particular to Aleppo's courts were Armenian women's requests for Christian burial rites. This study shows that in some cases the sharia courts offered those converted women a legal option for divorce that was absent in Armenian canon law. The products of these conversions were hybrid Armenian-Muslim families, which challenge the often static presentation of Armenian identity.

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“…After all, relations between the two communities were good in the Soviet period […] (De Waal, 2003, p. 9) Since ancient times the region has been part of different empires and cultural spheres, among them the Kingdom of Armenia, Caucasian Albania, Persia, Imperial Russia as well as the Soviet Union (De Waal, 2003). Armenians brought Christianity to Nagorno-Karabakh and introduced the Armenian script in the 5th century through monastic schools, marking a cornerstone in Armenian historiography and a foundation for Armenian claims to the region (De Waal, 2003;Payaslian, 2007). Following an Arab invasion, incursions by Seljuks, Mongols and Turkmen and a brief period under Ottoman rule, the multiethnic and multilingual region became known as the Karabakh Khanate, governed by Turkic rulers (Payaslian, 2007, p. 108).…”

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“…De Waal, 2003;Payaslian, 2007;Smith, 1998). On the one hand, nationalization efforts in both Armenia and Azerbaijan contributed to greater roles of the titular languages that to a certain extent also affected the status of Armenian within an Azerbaijani-speaking Soviet Republic.…”

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Conflict, Exclusion and Dissent in the Linguistic Landscape

2015

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The History of Armenia

Cited by 47 publications

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The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses

The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses

Armenian Women, Legal Bargaining, and Gendered Politics of Conversion in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Aleppo

Conflict, Exclusion and Dissent in the Linguistic Landscape

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