Iran

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’

This book contains a critical edition of the Avestan language composition known as the Rašn Yašt, or ‘Hymn to Justice’. The text is accompanied by an English translation,...

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...

Die Kujuji-Stiftungen in Tabriz

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Jalayiriden (Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar)

The Kujuji-foundations from 780/1380 are a vivid testimony to an outstanding personality in Tabriz during the Jalayerid period. Their founder, Khwaja Shaikh Kujuji, appears in the...

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 Baloch and Others

Linguistic, Historical and Socio-Political Perspectives on Pluralism in Balochistan

Throughout history Balochistan has been an important contact zone between the Indian Subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau. Today Balochistan is a land divided among several...

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...

Arabische Welt. Grammatik, Dichtung und Dialekte

Beiträge einer Tagung im Juli 2008 in Erlangen zu Ehren von Wolfdietrich Fischer

This volume contains a selection of 15 contributions stemming from a conference of the same name held in July 2008 in honor of the Erlanger Orientalist Wolfdietrich Fischer....

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...

Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

Jahrbuch der Ernst-Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Band 2

The subjects of volume 2 of the „Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie“ (BIKA, Contributions to Islamic Art History and Archaeology) include architecture, painting,...

Kulturen am Rande Mesopotamiens: von West-Kleinasien bis zum Kaspischen Meer

Katalog der Sammlung der Abteilung »Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Vorderen Orients« an der Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

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Seit dem Eintreffen der Sammlung am Institut für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Vorderen Orients 1998 wird...

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...

Die Grenzen der Welt

Arabica et Iranica ad honorem Heinz Gaube

Applying different methods on a broad range of sources, the present book attempts to transcend the limits between disciplines of Oriental Studies in twenty articles dedicated to...