Iranistik

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...

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...

Messapisch

Konzise Beschreibung der messapischen Sprache (Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax) auf Basis des messapischen epigraphischen Korpus. Besprechung ausgewählter messapischer...

Handbuch der Iranistik Band 2

Der zweite Band des Handbuchs der Iranistik schließt an das Konzept des ersten Bandes an und entwickelt dieses weiter. Er folgt der Unterteilung des ersten Bandes in acht...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...