Iranistik

Textbuch modernes Persisch

Persisch wird heute von mehr als 115 Millionen Menschen gesprochen - viele leben außerhalb des Iran. Es gibt zwar viele persische Lehrbücher, jedoch nur wenige Primärquellen, die...

From Old to New Persian

Collected Essays

In a long series of essays, written during almost half a century, Bo Utas analyses the development of West Iranian languages, particularly Old, Middle, and New Persian, from...

A Grammar of Early Judaeo-Persian

Early Judaeo-Persian (EJP) is the form of Persian that was spoken by Jews, and written in Hebrew script, in ca. the 8th-12th centuries C.E. Most EJP manuscripts have been found in...

Handbuch der Iranistik Band 1

Das „Handbuch der Iranistik“ (HdI) fasst den aktuellen Stand und Tendenzen der iranistischen Forschung zusammen und stellt deren wichtigste Disziplinen und Themenbereiche...

The Gorani language of Zarda, a village of West Iran

Texts, grammar, and lexicon

This volume presents the documentation and description of an endangered variety of the Gorani language as spoken in Zarda, a village located near Sar Pol-e Zahab and Kerend in...

Nachtigallen an Gottes Thron

Studien zur persischen Dichtung

Romantische Epik,
Mystik und Magie,
Musiktheorie, Wortspiel,
Sprachreflexion und Poetologie
bei Nezami, Attar, Hafez, Rumi und Sana’i...

Klassisches Sanskrit

Die Kurzgrammatiken bieten das jeweilige Material in praktischer, meist tabellarischer Form und können von Dozenten auch als Grundlage für den weiterführenden Unterricht verwendet...

The Gorani language of Gawraju a village of West Iran

Texts, grammar, and lexicon

This book describes an endangered variety of Gorani spoken by an Ahl-i Haqq (Yaresan) community in a village of western Iran, Kermanshah province. It contains a grammatical...

Herodotus’s Scythians and Ptolemy’s Central Asia

Semasiological and Onomasiological Studies

The present book deals with semasiological and onomasiological questions in Herodotus's (5th century B.C.) famous portrayal of the Scythians and in Ptolemy's description of the...

The Indo-European Verb

Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010

The contents address a wide range of issues regarding the formal and functional categories to be reconstructed for the PIE verb and their development into the attested verbal...

The Persian language in history

Fourteen papers on a diversity of themes relating to the grammar and the vocabulary of Persian, Middle Persian texts, non-standard and early varieties of Persian, and dialects of...

Tabous, interdits et obligations de langage en Afghanistan

Éléments du vocabulaire de la vie privée en terre d’Islam

Dieses Buch spiegelt ein Vierteljahrhundert von Beobachtungen wieder, die Charles Kieffer (Forschungsdirektor CNRS, Paris) während seinen dialektologischen Forschungen zwischen...

Literarische Stoffe und ihre Gestaltung in mitteliranischer Zeit

Kolloquium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Werner Sundermann

Das Buch enthält 21 Beiträge eines im März 2006 zu Ehren W. Sundermanns gehaltenen Colloquiums, das verschiedenen Aspekten der Literaturen in den mitteliranischen Sprachen...

The Baloch and Their Neighbours & The Baloch and Others (Set of 2 Volumes)

This set consists of two volumes: „The Baloch and Their Neighbours. Ethnic and Linguistic Contact in Balochistan in Historical and Modern Times“ and „The Baloch and Others....

Zarathushtra entre l’Inde et l’Iran

Études indo-iraniennes et indo-européenes offertes à Jean Kellens à l’occasion de son 65e anniversaire

In der vorliegenden, Jean Kellens, dem anerkanntesten Exeget des Avesta – des Meßbuches und zugleich des ältesten und heiligsten Textes des Mazdayasnismus oder Parsismus, der...

Iranian Loanwords in Syriac

The book investigates the deep linguistic contact between Iranians and Arameans from the formation of the Achaemenid empire onwards, and focuses especially on the linguistic...

Nizamis Schatzkammer der Geheimnisse

Eine Untersuchung zu Mahzan ul-asrar

Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung ist Nizamis (gest. 1209) Makhzan ul-asrar („Die Schatzkammer der Geheimnisse“). Die Studie behandelt Fragen der Werkgeschichte und Rezeption und...

Vafsi Folk Tales

Twenty Four Folk Tales in the Gurchani Dialect of Vafsi as Narrated by Ghazanfar Mahmudi and Mashdi Mahdi and Collected by Lawrence P. Elwell-Sutton

This volume consists of 24 folk tales told by two native speakers and tape-recorded by British Iranist, Lawrence P. Elwell-Sutton in Iran in August, 1958. Vafsi is an Iranian...

Religious themes and texts of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia

Studies in honour of Professor Gherardo Gnoli on the occasion of his 65th birthday on 6th December 2002

The volume contains forty-one papers dedicated to the distinguished Iranianist by colleagues, friends and former students, and a complete bibliography of the dedicatee. The papers...

A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto

Pashto, one of the national languages of Afghanistan, is an archaic language of the Iranian family with a vocabulary of extraordinary variety and interest. In his "New...