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A Grammar of Şirvan Tat
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A Grammar of Şirvan Tat is a grammatical description of a dialect of Tat, a non-written Iranian language spoken...
A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English
2nd edition, revised and completed
Many works of Syriac literature, including some now lost, were translated into Sogdian, a language of the Iranian family. This Dictionary makes the whole material accessible to...
A Turquoise Coronet
Studies in Persian language and literature in honour of Paola Orsatti
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Paola Orsatti is currently professor at La Sapienza University in Rome. In the course of a long and...
Aus den Tiefenschichten der Texte
Beiträge zur turko-iranischen Welt von der Islamisierung bis zur Gegenwart
Being case studies, the contributions to this volume highlight various aspects of the Turco-Iranian world starting from the Islamization in the 7th century up to the present day....
Editor: Utas, Bo
The Lantern of Spirits
Miṣbāḥ ul-arvāḥ
Misbâh ul-arvâh, or The Lantern of Spirits, is a comparatively little known Sufi didactic Persian poem written in the 12th century by the next to unknown Shaikh Shams ud-dîn...
Le verbe pashto
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...
Ditransitive constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective
The issue of ditransitive constructions has enjoyed increased attention over the last decade, and a number of important studies appeared. However, a number of questions are not...
Endangered Iranian Languages
This edited volume brings together work by theoretical linguists and field linguists who share a strong commitment to the scientific documentation and investigation of endangered...
Prospective and Proximative in Turkic, Iranian and beyond
The present volume addresses the linguistic categories of Prospective and Proximative, which refer to an event before it actually takes place, in a number of languages spoken in...
Azandname
An edition and literary-critical study of the Manichaean-Sogdian Parable-Book
This work is an edition and literary-critical study of a Manichaean text in Sogdian known as the Āzandnāmē, or Parable-Book. The first part is a new and expanded edition of the...
Dance in Iran
Past and Present
This volume is an extraordinary history of dance, full of mystery and humor. The various developments in the history of this art in Iran have never before been presented in a...
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 Mukri Variety of Central Kurdish
Grammar, Texts, and Lexicon
This volume presents the documentation and description of the Mukri variety of the Central Kurdish, spoken in north western Iran. The volume contains background information on the...
Lokale und imperiale Herrschaft im Iran des 12. Jahrhunderts
Herrschaftspraxis und Konzepte
How is political rule organised? Top-down, in a process of delegation? Or are there other forms and can local rulers take their position without being legitimised from above,...
Rasn Yast
The Avestan Hymn to ‘Justice’
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This book contains a critical edition of the Avestan language composition known as the Rašn Yašt, or ‘Hymn to...
Textbuch modernes Persisch
The Textbook Modern Persian contains thirty selected readings about contemporary Iran from various disciplinary perspectives. Each chapter of the book includes an introduction to...
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...
Divrigi
Unterwegs zur türkischen Mystik in Stein
Since the medieval building complex consisting of the Friday mosque and the psychiatric hospital was declared “World Cultural Heritage Site” in 1986 the small provincial town of...
Nomad Aristocrats in a World of Empires
The papers published in this volume go back to a conference held November 2011 in Hamburg. The conference was built around the question of domination: of nomads over sedentary...
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...