This thesis answers a major scholarly desideratum in Armenian, Byzantine, Kartvelian (Georgian), Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies more broadly, by providing a foundational study of the eleventh-century Armenophone History attributed to Aristakēs Lastiverc‘i. This is the sole surviving Armenian-language historiographical work written in the eleventh century that discusses the era, and is the earliest surviving historiographical work in any language to discuss the Middle East’s eleventh-c...