Iran

Le verbe simple en pashto

État des lieux

In this work, the Authors provide a detailed analysis of the Pashto Simple “Naked” Verbs, i.e. all not suffixed simple verbs, and the linguistic dynamics at work still nowadays....

An Analytical Bibliography of New Iranian Languages and Dialects

Based on Persian publications since ca. 1980

This bibliography is a collection of ca. 3,600 publications on new West Iranian languages and dialects (except Persian) that have been published in Iran since the revolution of...

A Grammar of Şirvan Tat

A Grammar of Şirvan Tat is a grammatical description of a dialect of Tat, a non-written Iranian language spoken in the Caucasus. The project draws on a corpus of Tat spontaneous...

A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English

2nd edition, revised and completed

Many works of Syriac literature, including some now lost, were translated into Sogdian, a language of the Iranian family. This Dictionary makes the whole material accessible to...

A Turquoise Coronet

Studies in Persian language and literature in honour of Paola Orsatti

Paola Orsatti is currently professor at La Sapienza University in Rome. In the course of a long and distinguished academic career combined with an impressive record of dedicated...

Aus den Tiefenschichten der Texte

Beiträge zur turko-iranischen Welt von der Islamisierung bis zur Gegenwart

Die Beiträge zu diesem Sammelband beleuchten anhand von Fallbeispielen verschiedene Aspekte der turko-iranischen Welt von der Islamisierung ab dem 7. Jahrhundert bis in die...

The Lantern of Spirits

Miṣbāḥ ul-arvāḥ

Misbâh ul-arvâh, or The Lantern of Spirits, is a comparatively little known Sufi didactic Persian poem written in the 12th century by the next to unknown Shaikh Shams ud-dîn...

Le verbe pashto

In this work, the Authors provide an analysis of the entire verbal system of Pashto, the language of some 50 million speakers in Afghanistan, Pakistan and diasporas. As an Iranian...

Ditransitive constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective

The issue of ditransitive constructions has enjoyed increased attention over the last decade, and a number of important studies appeared. However, a number of questions are not...

Endangered Iranian Languages

This edited volume brings together work by theoretical linguists and field linguists who share a strong commitment to the scientific documentation and investigation of endangered...

Prospective and Proximative in Turkic, Iranian and beyond

The present volume addresses the linguistic categories of Prospective and Proximative, which refer to an event before it actually takes place, in a number of languages spoken in...

Azandname

An edition and literary-critical study of the Manichaean-Sogdian Parable-Book

This work is an edition and literary-critical study of a Manichaean text in Sogdian known as the Āzandnāmē, or Parable-Book. The first part is a new and expanded edition of the...

Dance in Iran

Past and Present

Dieser Band bietet eine außergewöhnliche Geschichte des Tanzes, voller Geheimnisse und Humor. Die verschiedenen Entwicklungen in der Geschichte dieser Kunst im Iran wurden noch...

Bukharan Jews in the Soviet Union

Autobiographical Narrations of Mobility, Continuity and Change

Jede der in dieser Studie bucharisch-jüdischer Geschichte vorgestellten autobiographischen Erzählungen ist einzigartig. In ihrer Zusammenstellung ergeben die Erzählungen und...

The Mukri Variety of Central Kurdish

Grammar, Texts, and Lexicon

This volume presents the documentation and description of the Mukri variety of the Central Kurdish, spoken in north western Iran. The volume contains background information on the...

Lokale und imperiale Herrschaft im Iran des 12. Jahrhunderts

Herrschaftspraxis und Konzepte

Wie ist politische Herrschaft organisiert? Von oben nach unten, in Delegation? Oder gibt es andere Formen, bei denen Herrscher ihre Positionen aus eigener Machtvollkommenheit...

Rasn Yast

The Avestan Hymn to ‘Justice’

This book contains a critical edition of the Avestan language composition known as the Rašn Yašt, or ‘Hymn to Justice’. The text is accompanied by an English translation,...

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...

Wörterbuch der altpersischen Königsinschriften

Der vorliegende Band schließt eine schon lange bestehende Lücke in der Fachliteratur. Er bietet ein umfassendes Wörterbuch des Altpersischen auf der Basis des von demselben Autor...

Divrigi

Unterwegs zur türkischen Mystik in Stein

Seitdem der mittelalterliche Baukomplex aus Freitagsmoschee und psychiatrischem Spital im Jahr 1986 zum Weltkulturerbe erklärt wurde, ist das in den Bergen des östlichen Taurus...