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Nikolay Hovhannisyan


Arab historiography
on the Armenian genocide

Translated from Armenian
by Svetlana Mardanyan

"Zangak 97" Press.2005

National Academy of Sciences
of the Republic of Armenia
Institute of Oriental Studies



Yerevan 2004 - 206 pages - 14 cm x 19.5 cm


Yerevan 2005 - 168 pages - 14.5 cm x 20 cm

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CONTENTS

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  • Chapter One : The Problem of Studying the Armenian Genocide Behind the Barbed Wire
    - p.6 : Instead of preface


  • Chapter Two : The Motivation for Arab Historiography to Address the Armenian Genocide
    - p.15 : 1/ The Novel Continuation of Traditions of Classic Arab Historiography
    - p.17 : 2/ The internal or Arab motivation
    - p.19 : 3/ In the folds of Arab national memory
    - p.21 : 4/ The question of appearing of Armenian Masses in Arab countries


  • Chapter Three : Classification of the Works by Arab Authors on The Armenian Genocide
    - p.23 : 1/ Works wholly and directly devoted to the investigation of the problems of the Armenian Genocide
    - p.30 : 2/ Analysis of the Armenian Genocide int the works by Arab authors on Armenian history
    - p.34 : 3/ The problems of the Armenian genocide in the works of Arab authors about Arab countries


  • Chapter Four : - p.38 . Two Principal Peculiarities of Arab Historiographic Studies Devoted to the Analysis of the Armenian Genocide


  • Chapter Five : Arab Historiography About the Essence of the Ottoman Empire : the Prerequisites of the Armenian Genocide
    - p.42 : 1/ Statement
    - p.43 : 2/ The Ottoman Empire as a system based on viloence and wars. Doors shut for new ideas.
    - p.46 : 3/ Turks - "The Superior" Nation of the Empire
    - p.49 : 4/ The Ottoman Empire - a country of massacres and carnages
    - p.51 : 5/ The era of Zullum : "The Ottoman Empire -Abd al Hamid's prison " . The formula : "To solve the Armenian Question by way of physical extermination of Armenians"


  • Chapter Six : Arab Historiography on the Causes of the Armenian Genocide
    - p.56 : 1/ Failure of the policy of forcible turkization of Armenians - One of the main causesof the Armenian Genocide
    - p.64 : 2/ Pan-Turkism removal of the Armenian barrier
    - p.68 : 3/ The Armenian Genocide as a means to prevent the Ottoman Empire from the final break-up
    - p.72 : 4/ A unique viewpoint at the causes of the Armenian Genocide


  • Chapter Seven : The Kurdish Factor from the Viewpoint of Arab Historiography
    - p.78 : 1/ "Fursan al-Hamidie" and "Kurds' participation in the Armenian massacres
    - p.83 : 2/ Qamal Ahmad on Armenian-Kurdish relations and political, social-economic, ethnic and religious causes of their confrontation


  • Chapter Eight : Arab Historiography on the Claims of Western Armenians
    - p.90 : 1/ The models of reforms
    - p.93 : 2/ The model of decentralization of the Ottoman Empire : Lamarqaziya
    - p.97 : 3/ The Lebanese model for solving the Armenian Question


  • Chapter Nine : Arab Historians Against the Young Turk Version of Armenians "Treason" and "Revolt"
    - p.106 : 1/ Refutations by Arab historiography of the attempts of the Young Turk leadership to accuse Armenians of treason
    - p.111 : 2/ Arab historiography about the self-defense in Van and the Turkish version about the "revolt" of Armenians


  • Chapter Ten : Armenocide
    - p.118 : 1/ The isssue of planned Armenocide
    - p.125 : 2/ Arab historiography on the factor of Jihad in the system of perpetrating the Armenocide
    - p.129 : 3/ "Armenocide -the most genocidal genocide"


  • Chapter Eleven : - p.133 . The Humanitarian Attitude of the Arab People


  • Chapter Twelve : - p.141 . "The Black Page in the History of Mankind of the XX Century"


  • Chapter Thirteen : - p.145 . The Assessment of the Mission of Armenian Avengers in Arab Historiography


  • Conclusion - p.150

  • Index - p.154

  • Used Litterature - p.159

  • The Author's Works on the Armenian Genocide - p.163

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