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| James Russell (Harvard). Tobit God is Good: On Tobit and Iran | 1 |
| Jahanshah Derakhshani(Tehran): Some earliest Traces of the Aryan: Evidence from the 4th and 3rd Millennium B.C. | 7 |
| Artur Hambartsumian (Yerevan). The Armenian Parable “The Zoroaster’s Laughter” and the Plot of Zoroaster’s Birth in the Literary Traditions | 27 |
| Evelyn und Horst Klengel (Berlin). Ein altbabylonischer Text betreffend die Lieferung von Schilfrohr | 37 |
| Garnik Asatrian (Yerevan). Die Ethnogenese der Kurden und Frühe Armenisch-Kurdische Kontakte | 41 |
| Hayrapet Margarian (Yerevan). The Nomads and Ethno-Political Realities of Transcaucasia in 11th-14th centuries | 75 |
| Magomet Gasanov (Makhachkala). On Christianity in Dagestan | 79 |
| Armen Ayvazian (Yerevan). The Secret Meeting of Armenians on Lim Island in 1722 | 85 |
| N. A. Sotavov (Makhachkala). The Circum-Caspian Areas within the Eurasian International Relationships at the Time of Peter I and Nadir-Shah Afshar. | 93 |
| Shushanik Khachikian (Yerevan). On the Commercial Activities of an 18th Century New Julfa Merchant Sarhad Bandurean in Amsterdam | 101 |
| Dan Shapira (Jerusalem). A Karaite from Wolhynia meets a Zoroastrian from Baku | 105 |
| Matthias Weinreich (Jerewan). Die Pashto Sprecher des Karakorum: Zur Migrationsgeschichte einer ethno-linguistischen Minderheit | 107 |
| Alexander Yaskorski (Jerewan). Die deutschen Siedlungen im Südkaukasus | 133 |
| Ruslan Seferbekov (Makhachkala). On the Demonology of the Tabasaranians | 139 |
| Garnik Asatrian (Yerevan). Al Reconsidered | 149 |
| Jalil Doostkhah (Townsville, Australia). Shahnameh And The Oral Epic Traditions (A Brief Note) | 157 |
| Mushegh Asatrian (Yerevan) : A Manual of Iranian Folk Magic:Publication of the Text (Part I) | 163 |
| Victoria Arakelova (Yerevan). Sufi Saints in the Yezidi Tradition | 183 |
| John Perry (Chicago) The Historical Role of Turkish in Relation to Persian of Iran | 193 |
| Garnik Asatrian, Victoria Arakelova (Yerevan). Blunt, Bald and Wise (Iranian kund(-)) | 201 |
| Artak Vardanian(Yerevan): The Assyro-Babylonian Humbaba and the Armenian Plant Name Xembaba | 207 |
| Khashayar Bahari (Tehran): The Oldest Old Persian Text | 209 |
| ARCHAEOLOGY | |
| L. Jibladze, L. Dzidziguri, T. Chigoshvili (Tbilisi). Agricultural Tools in the Early Bronze Colchis | 213 |
| TOPICAL PROBLEMS | |
| Rafig Yahya Oðlu Aliyev (Baku). Some Momentous Issues of the ongoing Islamic-Christian Dialogue | 217 |
| Hakob Chakrian (Yerevan): The Armenian-Turkish Dialogue (A Brief Note) | 223 |
| OLD PAGES The Unpublished Report of His Britannic Majesty’s Agent |
227 |
| Book Reviews & Notes | 239 |
| Book Received | 261 |