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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...
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...
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...
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,...
Writers and Rulers
Perspectives on Their Relationship from Abbasid to Safavid Times
Nine essays explore the ways in which individual Arabic and Persian authors between the 9th and 17th centuries (with examples drawn from the Abbasid to the Safavid dynasties)...
In cooperation with: Gren-Eklund, Gunilla
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...
Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism
Ever since Ossetic was extensively researched by eminent Iranists like Abaev, Bailey, Gershevitch and Benveniste, the language has earned a prominent place in (Indo-)Iranian and...
Verbergänzungen und zusammengesetzte Verben im Persischen
Eine valenztheoretische Analyse
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Die vorliegende Studie ist die erste umfassende Analyse der Verbergänzungen und zusammengesetzten Verben im...
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...