ABSTRACT

For Armenia and Armenians life between two superpowers was not interrupted. The factors that contributed to the shaping of the Armenian–Islamic experience were: East–West rivalries in which were engaged Armenian kings, catholicoi, naxarars, and the common people. They also contributed the cultural policies and the legacy of fundamental loyalties of the Armenian Classical or Golden Age in the Fifth century, Definitions of Armenian orthodoxy and the synthesis of the Armenian theologist Eznik Kolbaci, Early Armenian social–religious dissent. From the beginning, Armenian political history and culture were marked by pluralism. The reformist social–religious dissidents, who as of the fourth century opposed the Christianity of the Church, adhered to their early versions of Christianity and their mixed beliefs. As argued, political choices and careers on all social strata had their roots in the pre-Islamic Armenian conditions.