The latest issue of the scholarly journal Iran and the Caucasus has been published by Brill. Edited by Garnik Asatrian in collaboration with Victoria Arakelova, Uwe Bläsing, and Giusto Traina, this journal is among the leading international publications in the field of Iranian, Caucasian, and Iranianate studies.

Iran and the Caucasus is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, published annually in five issues, and accepts research articles in English, French, and German.

The journal highlights new research on topics such as ancient, medieval, and modern history; Iranian culture and languages; textual studies; ethnography and anthropology; as well as political, social, and religious issues related to Iran and the Caucasus. In addition to research articles, this issue also includes book reviews and critical assessments of recent publications in the field.

The new issue covers a broad range of historical, archaeological, linguistic, anthropological, and cultural studies. It features discussions on topics including administrative structures in the Achaemenid and Seleucid periods, new genetic research on the origins of the Armenians, recent studies on Sasanian art, ethnographic analyses of kinship in Anatolia, linguistic research on Zoroastrian Dari, and reviews of works concerning the modern history of Iran and the Caucasus.

What follows is the table of contents of this issue:

• The Land of Your Fathers: Memory, Dynastic Aura, and the Right Forms of Kingship in Hellenistic Baktria
  (Marco Ferrario)
• Administrative Seals from the Fire Temple of Ādur Gušnasp at Takht-e Solaymān
  )Yousef Moradi & Almut Hintze(
• The Return of the Ten Thousand: Structural Deficiency or Proper Function of the Administrative System of the Achaemenid Empire?
  (Amin Babadi & Morteza Arabzadeh Sarbanani)
• Genetic Insights into the Origins of Armenians
  (Levon Yepiskoposyan, Zaruhi Khachatryan & Anahit Hovhannisyan)
• Rock Reliefs, Tassels, and Sasanian Kings: Re-evaluating the Iconography of a Mysterious Object )Esmaeil Sangari, Milad Jafari Gavzan & Amirhossein Moghaddas(
• Structural Crisis in the Circassian Sultanate during the Reign of al-Ashraf Qanisawh al-Ghawri (r. 1501–1516) (Evgeny I. Zelenev & Milana Iliushina)
• Kirva and Conflict: A Social Kinship Practice in Times of Trouble
  (Annika Törne)
• Linguistic Insights from a Historical Bilingual Letter: The Malati Dialect of Zoroastrian Dari (Behdīnī) in Yazd — Part 2: Language Contact (Saloumeh Gholami)
• Richard Theremin and His “Report on the Clashes on the Persian-Turkish Border” (1907)
  (Victoria Arakelova)
• On the Impact of Education Attainment on Fertility: Turkey in Focus
  (Hayk Hovhannisyan)
• Oral Tradition and Electronic Cultural Media: Reconstruction and Commercial Consumption of Tradition at the Anatolian-Caucasian Crossroads (Okan Alay)
• Studies on Zoroastrian Iconographies from Pre-Islamic Persia and Central Asia, by Matteo Compareti (Patryk N. Skupniewicz)
• Journey and Topography, by Andranik
  (Tsovinar Kirakosian)
• Fada’i Guerilla Praxis in Iran (1970–1979): Narratives and Reflections on Everyday Life, by Touraj Atabaki, Nasser Mohajer, Siavush Randjabar-Daemi (eds.)
  (Anton Evstratov)

Link:

https://brill.com/view/journals/ic/29/4-5/ic.29.issue-4-5.xml