Received PhD from the EPHE (Sorbonne) in 2002, and Habilitation in 2009. Before coming to SOAS, taught Biblical languages and the History of Oriental Christianities in the Universities of Rome, Montpellier and Durham. The monograph Arméniens et Byzantins à l’époque de Photius (Peeters 2004) has been awarded the Charles et Marguerite Diehl Prize by the French Academy. Contributed to the Cambridge History of Christianity and other collective volumes and leading international journals in Armenian and orientalist studies.
Research interests
Transmission of intellectual traditions in Mediterranean region during Late Antiquity;
Christian-Jewish relations;
Armenian-Russian cultural relations;
Russian colonisation of the Caucasus and Central Asia;
Theological hermeneutics;
History and Patristics of the Armenian church;
Armenian apocrypha;
Armenian-Syriac and Armenian-Byzantine relationships;
Armenian historiography;
Christians under Islamic rule.
Publications
Christ in Armenian Tradition: Doctrine, Apocrypha, Art (Sixth–Tenth Centuries)
The Ambiguity of Religious References in A. Platonov’s Vprok (For Future Use)
Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor and Vernitski, Anat, 2003, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies (Formely Melbourne Slavonic Studies) (17), 1-2, pp 101-121
Kingship and Hospitality in the Iconography of the Palatine Church at Ałtʽamar
Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2016). In: Alzati, Cesare, (eds.) and Ossola, Carlo, (eds.), Costantinopoli. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΑ e ΙΕΡΩΣΥΝΗ. Studi in memoria di Gilbert Dagron. Florence: L.S. Olschki, pp 479-516
The Cave of the Nativity Revisited: Memory of the Primæval Beings in the Armenian Lord’s Infancy and Cognate Sources
Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2014). In: Mardirossian, A, (eds.), Ouzounian, A, (eds.) and Zuckerman, C, (eds.), Mélanges Jean-Pierre Mahé. Paris: Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, pp 285-334
Travels and Studies of Stephen of Siwnik (c.685–735): Redefining Armenian Orthodoxy Under Islamic Rule
Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2013). In: Roach, Andrew P., (eds.) and Simpson, James R., (eds.), Heresy and the Making of European Culture. Medieval and Modern Perspectives. Farnham: Ashgate, pp 355-381
La transmission de l’apocryphe de l’Enfance de Jésus en Arménie
Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2010). In: Frey, Jörg, (eds.) and Schröter, Jens, (eds.), Jesus in apokryphen Evangelienüberlieferungenn: Beiträge zu ausserkanonischen Jesusüberlieferungen aus verschiedenen Sprach- und Kulturtraditionen. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp 557-582
‘Exploration of the Kazakh Steppes and Semireč’e in Russia from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2009). In: Bonora, G.L., (eds.), Pianciola, N., (eds.) and Sartori, P., (eds.), Kazakhstan: Religions and Society in the History of Central Eurasia. Turin, Italy: U. Allemandi, pp 179-198
Silence, Intellect and Discourse in the Quest for the True Teaching: Reflections on Hermes Trismegistos’s «Definitions»
Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2009). In: Pabst, A., (eds.) and Schneider, C., (eds.), Encounter between Eastern Orthodoxy and Radical Orthodoxy: Transfiguring the World through the Word. Surrey: Ashgate, pp 176-184
Nazionalismo e religione nella dinamica del Genocidio degli armeni (1915-1916)
Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2008). In: Berti, F., (eds.) and Cortese, F., (eds.), Il crimine dei crimini. Stermini di massa nel Novecento. Milan: Franco Angeli, pp 64-84
The Churches of the Near East and Their Missions From the Persian to the Turkish Conquest, 604-1071
Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2008). In: Smith, Julia M. H., (eds.) and Noble, Thomas F. X., (eds.), Cambridge History of Christianity. Vol. 3: Early Medieval Christianities, c. 600-c.1100. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 65-85
The Apostolic Foundation Stone: the conception of Orthodoxy in the controversy between Photius of Constantinople and Isaac Surnamed Mŕut (882)
Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2006). In: Louth, A., (eds.) and Casiday, A., (eds.), Byzantine Orthodoxies: Papers from the Thirty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23–25 March 2002. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp 179-198
«Manto terrestre dell’immagine solare»: Note sul linguaggio cristologico di Gregorio di Narek
Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2006). In: Mahe, J.P., (eds.) and Zekiyan, B.L., (eds.), Saint Grégoire de Narek: théologien et mystique. Rome: PIO, pp 113-138
Review of 'Nerses of Lambron. Commentary on the Revelation of Saint John'. Translation of the Armenian text, notes, and introduction by Robert W. Thomson
Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2009). Le Muséon (122) 1/2, pp 231-236
