Iran

Iran - Geschichte, Kultur und Gesellschaft

Eine praktische Landeskunde

Iran – ein wunderschönes Land von alter, stolzer Kultur, politisch im Konflikt mit westlichen Staaten, in sich widersprüchlich, rätselhaft und zum Teil mißverstanden. Dieses Buch...

Siddham

Studies in Iranian philology in honour of Mauro Maggi

Dieser Band ehrt Mauro Maggi und würdigt seine Beiträge zur iranischen, indoarischen und zentralasiatischen Philologie und Linguistik. Er enthält neunundzwanzig Beiträge von...

The Afterlife of Avestan Manuscripts: Colophons and Marginal notes

Diese Studie untersucht die Rolle des Paratextes in der zoroastrischen Schreibtradition, mit einem Schwerpunkt auf den Avesta-Manuskripten. Sie untersucht, wie Paratexte, wie...

A Handbook of Khotanese

Ronald E. Emmerick’s Handbook of Khotanese consists of two parts: his Introduction to Khotanese, tried and tested with students over the years and here made available in print for...

Zazaki

Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie

Zazaki ist eine am nordwestlichen Rand des kurdischen Sprachgebiets gesprochene nordwestiranische Sprache, die heute von ca. 2 Millionen Sprechern in Südostanatolien als...

Von Buddha bis Hafiz – Aufsätze zu Indologie und Iranistik

Im ersten Teil der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Religion und Kunst des Buddhismus sowie alt- und spätmittelalterliche Waffen beschrieben. Der zweite Teil besteht aus Aspekten...

Watañi lāntaṃ

Khotanese and Tumshuqese Loanwords in Tocharian

Contacts between Tocharian A and B and Khotanese and Tumshuqese, four languages once spoken in today’s Xīnjiāng Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China, lack a comprehensive...

Tous les chemins mènent à Paris

Studies inspired by Agnes Korn

This volume is a collection of nine papers by various authors focussing on issues of etymology, historical language contact, morphology and syntax, typological modelling, and folk...

The Book of Zambasta

Metre and stress in Old Khotanese

The nature of Old Khotanese metre has been a matter of controversy for more than a century. Nicholas Sims-Williams presents a new metrical analysis of the Book of Zambasta, the...

Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures

This volume presents papers demonstrating the current state of research on oral traditions among different groups in the Iranian-speaking cultural sphere. The articles offer from...

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

Parcours d’un territoire du verbe simple à la locution verbale

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...