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Indic, East Indo-European & Dravidian languages
A Mirror Reflecting the Entire World
The Pali »Buddhapadamangala« or »Auspicius Signs on the Buddha’s Feet«. Critical Edition with English Translation
The “Buddhapadamangala” is an anonymous work in the corpus of Pali literature transmitted in Siam. Its starting point is the conventional description of the wheel mark on the...
Kurdisch Kompakt
Lehr- und Übungsbuch mit Lösungsschlüssel und CD
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Der „Kompaktkurs Kurdisch (Kurmancî) mit CD“ liefert in 19 Kapiteln praxis-orientiert Grundkenntnisse des...
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...
Zarathushtra and his Antagonists
A Sociolinguistic Study with English and German Translation of His Gathas (SZ)
Jambupati-sutra
A synoptic romanized edition
The present volume is a romanized collation of four Pali manuscripts of the „Jambupati-sutra“, supplemented by Pali passages extracted from two old Thai-language versions. The...
Buddhism and Buddhist Literature of South-East Asia
Selected Papers ed. by Claudio Cicuzza
The twelve essays in this volume survey aspects of Buddhism and Buddhist literature in pre-modern South-East Asia and Thailand, drawing on Pali and vernacular texts, liturgy, and...
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...
The Baloch and Their Neighbours & The Baloch and Others (Set of 2 Volumes)
This set consists of two volumes: „The Baloch and Their Neighbours. Ethnic and Linguistic Contact in Balochistan in Historical and Modern Times“ and „The Baloch and Others....
Zarathushtra entre l’Inde et l’Iran
Études indo-iraniennes et indo-européenes offertes à Jean Kellens à l’occasion de son 65e anniversaire
Twenty-seven articles by prominent Indo-Europeanists, Indologists and Iranists have been selected to commemorate the most innovative and consequent exeget of Avesta (the missal of...
Pali Literature Transmitted in Central Siam
A catalogue based on the Sap Songkhro
„Pali Literature Transmitted in Central Siam“ is a manual of Pali literature. It gives the titles of 529 texts, the majority inscribed on palm-leaf, dealing with Buddhism and...
Pali and Vernacular Literature Transmitted in Central and Northern Siam
„Pali and Vernacular Literature Transmitted in Central and Northern Siam“ is a preliminary survey of the pre-modern literature of Central and Northern Siam. Based on old records,...
Iran und iranisch geprägte Kulturen
Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Bert G. Fragner
From ancient times, 'Iranianate' cultures and the Persian language had a significant role beyond the borders of Iran: in the lands of the Near & Middle East, Central Asia as far...
Manuscript, Text and Literature
Collected Essays on Middle and New Persian Texts
This book is a selected collection of the scholarly production on Middle and New Persian literature by professor emeritus Bo Utas, Uppsala University, presented to him on his 70th...
Iranian Loanwords in Syriac
The book investigates the deep linguistic contact between Iranians and Arameans from the formation of the Achaemenid empire onwards, and focuses especially on the linguistic...
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...
Poetry’s Voice – Society’s Norms
Forms of Interaction between Middle Eastern Writers and their Societies
Literary works are much more than mere illustrations of societal conditions. Literature is the setting in which society discusses itself. In this volume, international scholars of...
Towards a Historical Grammar of Balochi
Studies in Balochi Historical Phonology and Vocabulary
The main part of the book is a new systematic treatment of the historical phonology of Balochi. Comparing important related languages (chiefly Avestan, New Persian and Parthian),...
Nizamis Schatzkammer der Geheimnisse
Eine Untersuchung zu Mahzan ul-asrar
This study of Niẓāmī’s (d. 1209) Makhzan ul-asrār (Treasure of Mysteries) deals with problems of the work’s history and reception, analyzing the formal setting of the poem as well...
Kurdisches Lesebuch
Kurmancî-Texte des 20. Jahrhunderts mit Glossar
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Bei der Auswahl der in diesem Lesebuch enthaltenen Texte wurden nicht nur didaktische Überlegungen zugrunde...
Vafsi Folk Tales
Twenty Four Folk Tales in the Gurchani Dialect of Vafsi as Narrated by Ghazanfar Mahmudi and Mashdi Mahdi and Collected by Lawrence P. Elwell-Sutton
This volume consists of 24 folk tales told by two native speakers and tape-recorded by British Iranist, Lawrence P. Elwell-Sutton in Iran in August, 1958. Vafsi is an Iranian...