Central Asia

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...

Minstrel Poetry from the Pamir Mountains

A Study on the Songs and Poems of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan

This book is a description and an analysis of the sung poetry of the Ismailis from Tajik Badakhshan and is based on material collected during fieldwork in the Pamir Mountains, in...

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...

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...

Ptolemy, Geography Book 6 Part 2

Middle East, Central and North Asia, China. Part 2: Maps in Simplified Reconstruction, Notes and Indexes with a Supplement: NW and W India

Vom Persischen zum Tadschikischen

Sprachliches Handeln und Sprachplanung in Transoxanien zwischen Tradition, Moderne und Sowjetmacht (1900 bis 1956)

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Diese Arbeit untersucht auf der Basis zeitgenössischer Quellen den Wandel der persisch-tadschikischen Sprache...

Tadschikische Studiengrammatik

This is the first manual to be published in German on Tajik and its contemporary usage in Central Asia. Learners of the language are guided through the grammar, phonetics and...

Schaibanidische Grabinschriften

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Das Buch enthält 84 überwiegend arabische Inschriften von Grabmalen, die für Angehörige der mittelasiatischen...

Ptolemy, Geography Book 6

Middle East, Central and North Asia, China. Part 1. Text and English/German Translations

Book 6 of Ptolemy’s „Geography“ (2nd cent. AD) deals with Assyria, Media, Susiana, Persis, Parthia, the Carmanian Desert, Arabia Felix, Carmania, Hyrcania, Margiana, Bactriana,...

Eastern Mediterranean Area 1204-1291

B VIII 6 Östlicher Mittelmeerraum 1204 bis 1291. 1 : 4 Mio. B VIII 7 Westliches Kleinasien. Byzantiner und Türkmenen 1291 bis 1337. 1 : 2 Mio.

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

The Middle East 736-850/1336-1447 A.D.

The Timur Empire under Saroh (807-850h/1405-1447 A.D.)

The Central Regions of the 'Abbasid Empire in the 10th Century A.D.

Examples of Small and Medium-sized Oriental Cities. Urban Structure

Erdek (Turkey)

The Empire of the Hvarezmsahs from the Mongolian invasion in 617h/1220 A.D. up to the death of Cingiz Han 624h/1227 A.D.

Die ethnischen Gruppen Afghanistans

Fallstudien zu Gruppenidentität und Intergruppenbeziehungen

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Europa auf dem Weg nach Asien - mit dieser Umkehrung eines bekannten Slogans kann man die heutige Situation...

Afghanistan. Languages and Dialects