THE CLASSIFICATION OF ARMENIAN-IRANIAN LITERARY RELATIONS IN K. MELIK-OHANJANYAN’S SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE

Abstract

In his work, Academician K. Melik-Ohanjanyan classifies the Armenian-Iranian medieval literary connections. The methodological and innovative nature of his work demonstrates that he is one of the first to prove that the mutual influences of motives and images are socially and historically determined. Based on the empirical material of samples of Persian and Armenian medevial literature he demonstrates both genetic and typological community; moreover, these relations sometimes have synthesis character in the long historic timespan.