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    CONFERENCE DEDICATED TO ARAM TER-GHEVONDYAN'S ANNIVERSARY TO LAUNCH IN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

    12:41, 31 October, 2013

    YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, ARMENPRESS. International youth scientific
    conference dedicated to the 85th anniversary of prominent Armenian
    historian-orientalist Aram Ter-Ghevondyan will be held in the National
    Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia on November 1-3. The
    conference is held under the slogan "Armenia and Arab World: History
    and Current Issues". The Press Service of the National Academy of
    Sciences of the Republic of Armenia informed "Armenpress" that at
    the course of the conference the participants will deliver reports
    on the Armenian-Arab ties in the Middle Ages, history of Armenian
    communities in the Arab countries, Arab-language media's reflections on
    "the Armenian Question", etc.

    Aram Ter-Ghevondyan was a preeminent Armenian historian and scholar who
    specialized in the study of historical sources and medieval Armenia's
    relations with the Islamic world and Oriental studies. His seminal
    work, The Arab Emirates in Bagratuni Armenia, is an important study
    on the Bagratuni Kingdom of Armenia. From 1981 until his death,
    Ter-Ghevondyan headed the Institute of Oriental Studies at the
    Armenian Academy of Sciences and he additionally held an honorary
    doctorate from the University of Aleppo and was an associate member
    of the Tiberian Academy of Rome.

    Ter-Ghevondyan was born in Cairo, Egypt to an Armenian family which
    had fled from the town of Marash in the Ottoman Empire during the
    massacres of the Armenian Genocide. In the late 1940s, his family
    repatriated to Soviet Armenia and there he was immediately admitted
    to Yerevan State University. Ter-Ghevondyan graduated from the
    university's department of philology of Oriental languages in 1954.

    Pursuing higher studies, he was accepted to the Oriental Studies
    Department at Leningrad State University. There, he met the renowned
    Armenian scholars Hrachia Acharian and Joseph Orbeli. He was especially
    fond of the guidance and advice Orbeli provided him with, as he
    repeatedly remarked after he had completed his studies, "Once more,
    fortune had smiled upon me, [for] my adviser was Academician Hovsep
    [Joseph] Orbeli." He defended his dissertation, The Emirate of Dvin
    from the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries, and was awarded his kandidat
    nauk in 1958.

    As a scholar who was fluent in Arabic, Ter-Ghevondyan had a profound
    interest in the history of the medieval Arab caliphates andemirates.

    >From 1958 to 1981, he worked at the Institute of History at the
    Armenian Academy of Sciences (AAS) with a special emphasis in
    philology, historiography and the study of historical sources. His
    first significant work devoted to Bagratuni Armenia's relations
    with the Islamic world was The Arab Emirates in Bagratuni Armenia
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    Ô²Õ¡Õ£O~@Õ¡Õ¿Õ¸O~BÕ¶ÕµÕ¡O~A Õ~@Õ¡ÕµÕ¡Õ½Õ¿Õ¡Õ¶Õ¸O~BÕ´) and was published
    in 1965. The book was highly praised and found to be of such great
    importance that it was translated from Armenian into English by
    American Byzantine scholar Nina Garsoïan, and later into Arabic by
    Aleksan Keshishyan. Ter-Ghevondyan's doctoral work centered on the
    political and cultural links between Armenians and Arabs during the
    medieval era and he defended his dissertation once more and received
    his doktor nauk in 1977. Titled Armenia and the Arab Caliphate,
    Ter-Ghevondyan's work was published by the AAS in the same year.

    In 1981, thanks to Ter-Ghevondyan's efforts, the institute of Oriental
    Studies at the AAS was established and he was appointed to be the
    inaugural holder of the chair for the study of primary sources. He
    continued on with his research and in the same year, he completed
    the translation of the excerpts of the work of the 13th-century
    Arab chronicler Ibn al-Asir, as part of a series initiated by the
    AAS to translate historical sources about Armenia and Armenians from
    their original languages into Armenian. He translated fromclassical
    to modern Armenian, wrote the introductions and commentaries on,
    in 1982 and 1983 respectively, the works of Armenian historians
    Ghevond (History) and Agatangeghos (History of Armenia). In 1983,
    Ter-Ghevondyan became a professor at Yerevan State University and
    taught the courses "Ancient and Medieval History of the Arab World"
    and "An Introduction to Arabic Philology."

    Due to his death in February 1988, many of Ter-Ghevondyan's works were
    left unpublished. His monograph, Armenia in 6th to 8th Centuries,
    was published posthumously in 1996. He was the author of over 100
    articles and a regular contributor to the Arab-related entries in the
    Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia (1974-1987) and wrote numerous chapters
    in the second and third volumes of the History of the Armenian People
    (vol. ii, 1984; vol. iii, 1976).

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/738421/conference-dedicated-to-aram-ter-ghevondyan%E2%80%99s-anniversary-to-launch-in-national-academy-of-sciences.html

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