Indo-Iranian languages

Wörterbuch der altpersischen Königsinschriften

The present volume is closing a gap of the specialist literature felt for some time. In it may be found a comprehensive Old Persian dictionary based on the author’s edition of the...

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...

The Pahlavi Yasna of the Gathas and Yasna Haptanhaiti

The Pahlavi Yasna of the Gāthās and Yasna Haptaŋhāiti is a critical edition of the Pahlavi text, with citations of parallel passages in the Dēnkard, accompanied by a complete...

Handbuch der Iranistik Band 1

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Das „Handbuch der Iranistik“ (HdI) fasst den aktuellen Stand und Tendenzen der iranistischen Forschung zusammen...

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...

Nachtigallen an Gottes Thron

Studien zur persischen Dichtung

To date, only a few pioneers have made classical Persian poetry and philosophy accessible to the occidental eye. During the 17th and 18th centuries, influential travellers brought...

Grammaire juhuri, ou judéo-tat, langue iranienne des Juifs du Caucase de l’est

Juhuri (Judeo-Tat), the language of the so-called “Mountain Jews” of Daghestan and Azerbaijan, belongs to the Caucasian Tat group of South-Western Iranian. Its Iranian heritage,...

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...

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...

The Persian language in history

Fourteen papers on a diversity of themes relating to the grammar and the vocabulary of Persian, Middle Persian texts, non-standard and early varieties of Persian, and dialects of...

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...

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)

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...

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...