Seta Dadoyan ( hy, Սեդա Տատոյեան) is an Armenian scholar who specializes in medieval Armenian
political
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and
intellectual history
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Haigazian University
Haigazian University ( hy, Հայկազեան Համալսարան, pronounced ''Haygazyan Hamalsaran''; ar, جامعة هايكازيان) is a higher education institution founded in 1955 in Beirut, Lebanon as Haigazian College. For a brief pe ...
(1981-1986),
Columbia University
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(2002, 2006), St. Nerses Seminary (2007-2010), the
University of Chicago
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(2010) She has written over fifty articles and ten books, and is believed to be the first
Armenian
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* Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent
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woman to have received a Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy focusing on the history of
Armenian philosophy
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. Her scholarly work focuses on medieval Armenian history with a special emphases on the relationship between the Armenians and Muslims; she is considered a leading scholar in this field.
Armenian
Armenian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent
** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ...
family. She moved to
Beirut
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, Lebanon, where she received her Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from the American University of Beirut in 1969. In 1986 Dadoyan became a professor at the American University of Beirut, and remained there until 2005. Dadoyan has also studied art in Beirut and London and is a painter.
Her lectures have received acclaim by academics and scholars including
Michael Morony
Michael Gregory Morony (born September 30, 1939) has been a professor of history at UCLA since 1974, with interests in the history of Ancient and Islamic Near East.
James R. Russell
James Robert Russell (born October 27, 1953) is a scholar and professor in Ancient Near Eastern, Iranian and Armenian Studies. He has published extensively in journals, and has written several books.
He served as Mashtots Professor of Armeni ...
called them "an intellectual feast". In 1999, Dadoyan was awarded the
David Anhaght
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David was a pupil of Olympiodorus in Alexandria. His works, originally written in Greek, survive in medieval Armenian translation, and he was g ...
medal, the highest medal granted by the Armenian Academy of Philosophy, for her contributions to Armenian philosophical studies. In 2015, she has awarded the "St. Mesrop Mashtots" badge of honor by
Aram I
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Bibliography
Aram I has written the followin ...
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Antelias
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,
Lebanon
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.
Works
Books
*Islam in Armenian Literary Culture: Texts, Contexts, Dynamics. Leuven:
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, 2021. ,
*The Armenian Condition in Hindsight and Foresight- A Discourse / 2015 – Հայ Վիճակը Յետահայեցութեամբ և Նախահայեցութեամբ – Վերլուծում մը. Ottawa, Canada: Indepredent Publisher, 2015.
*The Catholicosate of Cilicia - History, Mission, Treasures. Editor, Co-Author. Antelias, Lebanon: Catholicosate Publications, 2015.
*The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World – Paradigms of Interaction Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries . Volume Three: Medieval Cosmopolitanism and Images of Islam-Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries. New Brunswick: U.S.A. & London, UK:
Transaction Publishers
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, 2013.
*The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World – Paradigms of Interaction Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries. Volume Two:
*Armenian Realpolitik in the Islamic World and Diverging Paradigms - The Case of Cilicia - Eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries. New Brunswick, U.S.A. & London, UK: Transaction Publishers, 2012.
*The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World – Paradigms of Interaction - Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries. Volume One: The Arab Period in Armīnyah - Seventh to Eleventh Centuries. New Brunswick (U.S.A.) & London (UK): Transaction Publishers, 2011.
*The Armenian Catholicosate from Cilicia to Antelias − An Introduction. Antelias, Lebanon: Catholicosate Publications, 2003.
*The Contribution of the Armenian Church to the Christian Witness in the Middle East. Editor, Co-Author. Antelias, Lebanon: Catholicosate Publications, 2001.
*The Fatimid Armenians - Cultural and Political Interaction in the Near East. Islamic History and Civilization Series. Leiden:
E.J. Brill
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*"The Move of the Armenian Catholicosate from Armenia to Antelias”, ''The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia: History, Treasures, Mission''. Edited by Seta B. Dadoyan. Beirut: Catholicosate Publications, 2015, 22-67.
*“Matt‘ēos Jułayec‘i”, ''Christian-Muslim Relations - A Bibliographical Historical Bibliography''. Leiden: Brill, 2013, 309-313.
*“Yovhannēs Erznkac‘i Bluz”, ''Christian-Muslim Relations - A Bibliographical Historical Bibliography''. Leiden: Brill, 2012, vol. IV (1200-1350), 572-578.
*“The Fatimid Armenians”, ''Christian-Muslim Relations - A Bibliographical Historical Bibliography''. Leiden: Brill, 2011, vol. II (900-1050), 25-27.
*“Badr al-Jamālī”, In. ''
Encyclopedia of Islam
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'' Three. Leiden: Brill, 2010. 133-134.
*“Bahrām al-Armani”, In. ''Encyclopedia of Islam'' Three. Leiden: Brill, 2011. 63-64.
*“Cilicia: The Philosophical Legacy between East and West”, ''Hask Armenological Yearbook'', vol. XI, (2009), 349-384.
*“A Phenomenology of Armenian Studies: The Discipline and the ‘National’ Meta-Polis", ''
Le Muséon
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'', vol. 121-Fasc. 1-2 (2008), 213-229.
*“The Year of Armenian Studies: NAASR Oct. 2002, Erevan, Sep. 2003, AIEA Venice/Lecce Oct. 2003, ''Journal of Armenian Studies'', Vol. VIII, 2, Fall(2006), 3-15.
*“The Chronicle of Michael the Syrian and the Armenian Version of 1248: A Textual Comparison”, ''Hask Armenological Yearbook'', X(2003-2006), 257-275.
*“The Nāṣirī Futuwwa Literature and the Brotherhood Poetry of Yohannēs and Konstandin Erzenkac‘i – Texts and Contexts”, in J. J.Van Ginkel, H.L. Murre-van den Berg, T. M. van Lint (eds) ''Redefining Christian Identity: Cultural Interaction in the Middle East since the Rise of Islam''. (Leuven: Peeters, 2005), 237-264.
*“The Constitution of the Brotherhood of Erzinjān (1280): An Armenization of the Futuwwa Reform Project and Literature of ‘Abbāsid Caliph al-Nāṣir lī-dīn Allāh”, ''
Revue des Études Arméniennes
''Revue des Études Arméniennes'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles relating to Classics, Classical and medieval Armenian history, art history, philology, linguistics, and literature.National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (NAS RA) ( hy, Հայաստանի Հանրապետության գիտությունների ազգային ակադեմիա, ՀՀ ԳԱԱ, ''Hayastani Hanrapetut’yan gitut’yunneri az ...
'', V, 1-2 (2001), 18-31.
*“The Problematic of Dissidence and Heresy in the Making of the National: The Armenian Case in the Medieval Middle East”, ''Hask Armenological Yearbook of the Catholicosate of Cilicia'', 9(1997- 2000), 101-113.
*“The Armenian Meta-System and the Near Eastern Diaspora” (Paper presented at the Workshop on Cultural Resistance and Globalization). ''Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte'', 2 (2001) of Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum, 1-18.
*“The Armenian Intermezzo in Bilād al-Shām: 10th to 12th Centuries”. In ''Syrian Christians under Islam: The First Thousand Years''. Leiden: E. J.Brill, 2001. 159-183
*“Armenians in contact with Islam - Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries”. In ''Het Christelijk Oosten (The Christian East), Periodical of the Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at Nijmegen'', the Netherlands, Special Issue on Armenia, December 52 (2000), 175-199.
*“Yānis”, ''Encyclopedia of Islam'' – 2nd Ed. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
*“Technology and Women in the ESCWA Region: Strategies between Local Actuality and Global Virtuality”, ''Proceedings of the ESCWA Expert Group Meeting of the Technology Section of the United Nations''- November 1–3, 2000, Beirut: 2001.
*“Die Armenier und die islamische welt Paradigmen sozio-politischer Interaktion”, Armenisch-Deutsche Korrepondenz, 2(2000 - No.108), 33-35
*“Grigor of Tat‘ew: Treatise against the Tajiks”, ''Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations'', 7, 2(1996).
*“The Phenomenon of the Fatimid Armenians”, ''Medieval Encounters'', 2.3(1996), E. J. Brill, 193-213.
*“Data for the History of Medieval Arab-Armenian Relations”, ''Haigazian Armenological Review'', XII(1992), 339-355.
*“Footnotes to an Unwritten History of Arab-Armenian Relations”. In: ''Studies in History and Literature. Festschrift in honor of N. A. Ziadeh'', London: 1992. 108-119.
*“A Thirteenth Century Armenian summary of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity (Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’)”, Al-Abḥāth Journal of the American University of Beirut, XXXX(1992). 3-18.
*“The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: As the Sources of John of Erzenka’s ‘Views’ “, ''Journal of Erevan State University'', I(1991), 63-78.
*“The Problem of the sources of John of Erzenka’s Views”, ''Journal of the Dept. of Humanities of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia'', II(1991), 22- 43.
*“A Unique phenomenon in Arab-Armenian Cultural Relations during the 13th Century”, ''Journal of Erevan State University'', II(1990), 11-26.
*“A Comparative Study of the Texts of John of Erzenk’s Views and Rasā'il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’”, ''Shirak Literary Journal'', 10-12(1990). 135-160.
*“A Concise philosophical Glossary in the West Armenian Dialect”, ''Hask Armenological Yearbook of the Catholicosate of Cilicia'', IV-V(1983-1984), 219-234.
*“Indra – Tiran Č‘rakean: The ‘Pallid Atlas’ of West Armenian thought", ''Hask Armenological Yearbook of the Catholicosate of Cilicia'', IV-V(1983-1984),179-218.
*“Šahan Berberean: Philosophy of art”, ''Hask Armenological Yearbook of the Catholicosate of Cilicia'', II-III (1982), 85-110.
*“David Invictus: Refutation of Pyrrhonian Skepticism”, ''Hask Armenological Yearbook of the Catholicosate of Cilicia'', I(1980), 73-90.
*“T‘oros Ṙoslin and Sargis Picak”, ''Haigazian Armenological Review of Haigazian University'', VIII(1981), 235-252.
*“A Survey of the History of Armenian Painting in Lebanon”, ''Haigazian Armenological Review of Haigazian University'', VII(1981),315-352.
*“Rasā’il Ikhwān al- Ṣafā’: The Source of John of Erznka's 'Views from the Writings of Islamic Philosophers’", ''Haigazian Armenological Review'', VI(1977–78), 51-70.