Yerevan, April 10, Noyan Tapan. The Armenian Genocide in the Light of "Arab Historiography" writing of professor Nicolay Hovhannisian, corresponding member of the ANAS and Doctor of Historical Sciences, was published in Tehran in Persian early this year. According to N.Hovhannisian, the book was translated to Persian by Garun Sargsian, founding member of the Iran- Armenia Friendship Union. At her request, the author wrote a foreword for the Persian edition of the book beginning with the heading "Iran is not that country, and the Persians are not that people, who can organize Genocide against Armenians". According to N.Hovhannisian, these words belong to the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah homeini, who in 1997 thanks to Hovhannisian addressed these words to Armenia's leaders and to the Armenian people. Published in 2005 in English, this book is an original study. It is devoted to the discussion of issues of the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Arab historiography. The author carefully examined how a number of basic questions were highlighted in the Arab historiography, including the disclosure of the reasons and nature of the Genocide by Arab researchers. According to N.Hovhannisian, the important is the fact that Muslim Arabs have come to the conclusion, that what happened in 1915 with Armenians was genocide organized by Young Turks leadership, and it was the black page of the 20th century. Arabs also have been under Turkish oppression for long years and they have been aware of the Ottoman dictatorship, told he. "Arab historians put for the first time into circulation the word ‘Armenocide' (murder of Armenians), told N.Hovhanniasian. Recently G.Sargsian wrote to the author. "It's an honor for me to have translated that remarkable writing. That book has been given to public officials, political figures, intellectuals. I could state, the book has made an indelible impression on them": N.Hovhannisian has authored more than 400 scientific writings, 100 out of them are dedicated to the topic of the Armenian Genocide: These writings are translated into tens of world languages, including English, French, Russian, German, Turkish.

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