TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles HISTORY, CULTURE Victoria Arakelova – Ethno-Religious Communities: To the Problem of Identity Markers . 1 Elena Inozemtseva – On the Social and Legal Status of Slaves in the North Caucasus . 19 Sekandar Amanolahi – Traditional Economy of the Herder- Horticulturists of South Iran . 27 Levon Yepiskoposian, et al. – Genetic Affinity between the Armenian Yezidis and the Iraqi Kurds . 37 Matteo Compareti – The Spread Wings Motif on Armenian Steles: Its Meaning and Parallels in Sasanian Art . 201 Lloyd Ridgeon – Shaggy or Shaved? The Symbolism of Hair among Persian Qalandar Sufis . 233 Dan D. Y. Shapira – rn-o Tran: On Iranian (and Quasi-Iranian) in the Ruhnama . 265 Temur Aytberov, Shahban Khapizov – Pro-Qajar Elements in Dagestan (Early 19th Century) . 279 LINGUISTICS Matthias Weinreich – Language Shift in Northern Pakistan: The Case of Domaakí and Pashto . 43 Mikhail Pelevin – Materials on the Bandari Dialect . 57 Faramarz Shahsavari – Lak and Kurdish . 79 Habib Borjian – The Dialect of Jowshaqan. Part One: Phonology, Morphology and Syntax . 83 Oleg Belyaev – Evolution of Case in Ossetic . 287 Ardashir Zolfaqari – The Avromani-speaking Area in Iran . 233 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/157338410X12870595747805 HISTORICO-POLITICAL ISSUES Dmitry Shlapentokh – The Rise of the Russian Khalifat: The View from the Jihadist Side . 117 Darren L. Logan – A Remnant Remaining: Armenians amid Northern Iraq’s Christian Minority . 143 Mohammad Mousavi – Some Notes on the Caspian Energy and Ethnic Conflicts in the Caucasus . 159 Caspar ten Dam – How to Feud and Rebel: 1. Violence-values among the Chechens and Albanians . 331 Boghos Levon Zekiyan – Armenian-Turkish Relations in the Framework of Turkish and Armenian Scholarships . 367 Pascal Kluge – MÜSAD, the Green Capital of Turkey, and Armenia 387 Çakır Ceyhan Suvari – A Brief Review of Ethnicity Studies in Turkey 407 Babak Rezvani – The Ossetian-Ingush Confrontation: Explaining a Horizontal Conflict . 419 Zahra Fehresti – Legislative Approaches towards Human Trafficking in Pre- versus Post-Islamic Revolution Iran . 431 Book Reviews Martin Axmann, Back to the Future: The Khanate of Kalat and the Genesis of Baloch Nationalism 1915-1955 (review by Vahe S. Boyajian) . 169 Quil Lawrence, Invisible Nation: How the Kurds Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East (review by Darren L. Logan) . 173 Kveh Bayt, Pn-torkism va Irn [Pan-Turkism and Iran] (review by Gevorg Avetikian) . 176 Kat‘oghikos Esayi Hasan Jalaleants, A Brief History of the Aghuank Region (Patmut iwn Hamat Aghuanits Erkri). A History of Karabagh and Ganje from 1702-1723 (review by Mahmud Ja‘fari-Joneidi) . 180 Oliver Leaman (ed.), The Qur’an: an Encyclopedia (review by Victoria Arakelova) . 183 X. Axmadi, Taly i ot époxi Sefevidov do okonaniya vtoroj russko- iranskoj vojny 1826-1828 [The Talishis from the Safavid Period till the End of the Second Russian-Persian War 1826-1828] (review by Samvel Margarian) . 185 .