Afghanistan

Von Buddha bis Hafiz – Aufsätze zu Indologie und Iranistik

In the first part of this work are described the religion and art of Buddhism as well as ancient and late medieval weapons. The second part consists of aspects of Iran's material...

From Ordinary to Luxury

Islamic Ceramics from Iran, Central Asia and Afghanistan

188 pieces of glazed and unglazed pottery from The University Museum of Islamic Art are studied and grouped into categories of surface treatment. The collection’s asset is its...

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...

Bukharan Jews in the Soviet Union

Autobiographical Narrations of Mobility, Continuity and Change

Each of the autobiographical narrations presented in this study on Bukharan Jews is unique. Seen collectively, they amount to a comprehensive survey of Bukharan Jewish experiences...

The Baloch and Others

Linguistic, Historical and Socio-Political Perspectives on Pluralism in Balochistan

Throughout history Balochistan has been an important contact zone between the Indian Subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau. Today Balochistan is a land divided among several...

Topics in Iranian Linguistics

The 13 chapters of this volume represent a selection of the papers presented at the “Third International Conference on Iranian Linguistics”, held in September 2009 at the...

Seals, Sealings and Tokens from Gandhara

Ancient seals say much about people, their names, preferred styles and self-esteem. Over many decades Aman ur Rahman has built a large collection of seals from North-Western...

Tabous, interdits et obligations de langage en Afghanistan

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

This book reflects on a quarter-century of observations by Charles Kieffer (Research Director CNRS, Paris) during his dialectological research from 1957-1981 in all of...

Aromata in der iranischen Kultur

unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der persischen Dichtung

This volume is the result of more than 10 years' research in Persian culture from the Achaemenid period (559 B.C.) until the end of the Safavids’ time (1722 A.D.). The main...

Literarische Stoffe und ihre Gestaltung in mitteliranischer Zeit

Kolloquium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Werner Sundermann

The book contains 21 contributions to a colloquium held in March 2006 in honour of W. Sundermann and dealing with various aspects of the literatures in the Middle Iranian...

Persisches Lesebuch

Farsi, Dari, Tojiki. Originaltexte aus zehn Jahrhunderten mit Kommentar und Glossar

The „Persian reader“ documents the development of the Modern Persian written language, based on a representative selection of original texts ranging from poetry and the literary...

Die Taliban im Land der Mittagssonne

Geschichten aus der afghanischen Provinz. Erinnerungen und Notizen von Abdurrahman Pahwal

The book presents the German translation of a Persian manuscript from Afghanistan with personal memories and notes of the reign of the Taliban which were written down by a local...

Muhammad Iqbal’s Romanticism of Power

A Post-Structural Approach to His Persian Lyrical Poetry

A study of the Persian poetry of Muḥammad Iqbāl (1877-1938), today Pakistan’s national poet, this work identifies the position his poems occupied between tradition and modernity,...

The Baloch and Their Neighbours

Ethnic and Linguistic Contact in Balochistan in Historical and Modern Times

The present volume contains the contributions of an international symposium on linguistic contact in Balochistan. The issues treated range from linguistic contact of Balochi and...

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...

Grammaire de l’ormuri de Baraki-Barak (Lôgar, Afghanistan)

Charles M. Kieffer has devoted his life to the study of some of the least known languages of the Iranian family, in particular Ormuri and Parachi, on which he carried out...

The Safavid Empire

Examples of Large Oriental Cities

Herat (Afghanistan). Business Districts and Trades

Iran and Afghanistan. Relief, Hydrologie and Settlements

Pastoral Migration Systems. Examples

Afghanistan. Nomadism and Semi-Nomadism