2009/01/01 by Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian · 3 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Eurasian Exchange Networks #Ancient Near East History #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies #Georgian #Persian #Scholarship #Historiography #CONQUEST #Ancient history #History #Empire #Middle East #Armenian #Subject (documents) #Political science #Archaeology #Law #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1163/187471609x445464
openalex publication_date 2009/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/03
Abstract When Georgia was incorporated into the Russian Empire, the rich background of interaction with Persian culture, the result of centuries of contact, was lost to the scholar whose interest in Georgian history came to depend on Russian historiography with its focus on the period under Russian rule and its misreading of anything prior to that. Western scholarship, often oblivious of the far reach of Persian culture, devoted too little attention to the subject or gave it short shrift. Owing largely to the recent work of Georgian scholars, a century of neglect is now being reversed, but an overall picture of the breadth and depth of Georgian-Iranian interaction is still lacking. This paper proposes to offer a general overview from the third millennium BCE to the Russian conquest of Georgia, when Persian influence began its decline.