A comparison of some theological aspects

Seda T. Tigranyan

In the Middle Ages, religion was the dominant form of social consciousness and ideological system. Historically significant social and political movements were usually accompanied by new ideological and religious manifestations – sometimes bringing forth conservative ideas to purify religion from innovations, yet sometimes attempting to adapt religious provisions to the requirements of the time. This is also true for Islam and the history of Islamic countries. For example, at various times religious and political movements, currents and radical groups called for the purification of Islam driven by political and social reasons. Some of them had widely used and currently apply the ideas of Sunni Islamic scholar, theologian Ibn Taymiyyah (1263-1328). The wide application of Ibn Taymiyyah’s ideas and the various references to his works lead to disagreements and conflicting interpretations of his ideas. Opinions about his personality also vary – from a pious Muslim, an eminent scientist to a madman. Even so his views, ideas, in general, had a huge impact not only on the consciousness of his contemporaries, but also on the next generations.

Seda K. Gasparyan (Doctor of Sciences in Philology)
Nare A. Shalunts, PhD

Language is known to be a unique means of enabling humans to transmit thoughts. No doubt, it can be a source of inspiration and motivation, sharing knowledge, but on the other hand, it can also be a way of spreading injustice and falsification. Communication, being the fundamental function of language, presupposes interaction between the addresser and the addressee based on processes of encoding and decoding thoughts.Political interviews as a specific variety of political discourse display the implementation of linguistic manipulation, and this is well evidenced by the interviews of the Azerbaijani President given to the international media, namely the BBC, France 24, CNN, Al Jazeera, and ARD TV Channel. Obvious is the fact that in all these interviews, the Azerbaijani President intentionally uses a wide range of manipulative tactics by distorting facts.

Haykanush A. Sharuryan
PhD in Philology

Ruzan R. Ghazaryan
PhD in Philology

This study seeks to contextualize a shared thematic connection between two seemingly unrelated literary traditions, French and Armenian. These traditions are interwoven by what can be termed “perpetual themes.” The focus of this study is on two contemporary novelists, Pierre Loti (1850-1923) and Krikor Zohrab (1861-1915).

Silva V. Papikyan

The Armenian language has been greatly influenced by Russian especially after the unification of Eastern Armenia with Russia in 1828. The connection between a nation and its history is unarguable and the history of any nation leaves its mark on the language. In this sense political, economic, cultural relations with neighboring nations are important, as a result of which languages borrow many words from each other. Among the borrowed words there are a certain number of exoticisms that indicate objects, phenomena and customs specific to a particular nation or country. Usually, they are used when it comes to culture-specific concepts characteristic of a given nation. The article considers some exoticisms transferred from and through Russian into Armenian, which are classified into the following semantic groups: accommodation-residence-area, art-literature, mode of address-address, political directions, clothes, common words.

Based on the examination, it turns out that some exoticisms passed from and through Russian into Armenian are native Russian and direct borrowings in bolshevik, decembrist, menshevik, muzhik, etc., some of them completely went out of use and joined the ranks of archaicisms – batrak, burlak, kholop, etc., many of them acquired new meanings in the course of historical development resulting in polysemy of the word. The origin of some exoticisms from Russian is unknown.

A large number of borrowings passed from different languages into
Armenian through the mediation of the Russian, such as taiga <Rus. тайга <Turk. tundra <Rus. тундра < Fin., etc.

The words borrowed from the European languages are mostly international words.

Anna E. Hakobyan

Scholarly interest in legislative translation has grown substantially over the recent decades, with corpus-based approaches contributing much to our understanding of the relationship between translated legislation and source texts, on the one hand, and translated and non-translated legislative texts in the target language, on the other.

Zina A. Avetisyan

The beginning of the 17th century became an essential start of educational and cultural awakening for the Armenian nation. Closing the bitter pages of the wars, the Armenian people devoted themselves to the work of spreading enlightenment, which was done through the work of book printing. The development of the Armenian typography along with “Sharaknots”, “Saghmosaran” and “Mashtots”, gave birth to some monumental works such as “History” of Arakel Davridzetsi published by Voskan Erevantsi, “The History of Armenia” by Movses Khorenatsi, the first modern Armenian world atlas “Hamatarac ashkharatsoyts” published by the Vanandetsi.

With the study of seals and regarding village Nakhedur

Siranush M. Fahradyan

From the numerous documents assembled in the archival fund “Divan of Catholicos” of the Matenadaran named after Mesrop Mashtots, a deed of purchase of the Armenian catholicos Hakob Jughaetsi (1655-1680), approved in 1667, was presented.

Newly discovered testimonies about Alexander Tairyan in the archive of Alexander Yeritsyan

Haykaz J. Hovhannisyan

The activities of the Armenian businessman and philanthropist Alexander Tahiryan are not properly covered in the Armenian historiography, and scattered information about him in the historical
literature does not reflect and does not characterize his undeniable influence in the Armenian social- political and economic life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Artsrun A. Avagyan

Hakob Mndzuri is one of the famous figures of the Armenian classical literature. Like many other Western Armenian miraculously rescued writers he has had a complicated and tragic fate. He dedicated his whole life to the people and nature of his native province, to the revival of the animal world and national customs and anything that is called homeland. Most of  Mnzuri’s works are about the relationship of people with animals that describe everyday life, where the only goal is hard work, which human beings would not be able to accomplish without the help of domestic animals.

Marine D. Ghazaryan

This article is dedicated to the study of topographical images in the prose of
Diaspora Armenian writer Hakob Mndzuri. Mndzuri’s prose stands out for its complete and
comprehensive images of the place, written with the knowledge of an artist formed from
close contact with native nature. Those images help to develop an idea about the geography
of this or that part of Western Armenia and are important in order to get a broad picture of
the national identity.