Middle East

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...

Der hygienische Imperativ

Gesundheitsversorgung und -aufklärung der Muslime des ausgehenden Zarenreichs (1864-1917)

The attempt to establish a health system on the basis of modern European scientific medical standards meant a great adaptation challenge for the traditional people in the Russian...

Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der neuassyrischen Zeit

Teil 2. Zentralassyrien und benachbarte Gebiete, Ägypten und die arabische Halbinsel

Historical geography is one of the most important disciplines which allow a reconstruction of the history of the Ancient Near East. There are principally the cuneiform sources...

Der umayyadische Palast des 8. Jahrhunderts in Hirbat al-Minya am See von Tiberias

Bau und Baudekor

The book provides an art historical and archaeological study of the architecture and the architectural decoration of the remarkable early Islamic palatial residence in Khirbat...

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...

Gestalten durch Verbergen

Ghassan Salhabs melancholischer Blick auf Beirut in Film, Video und Dichtung

This volume is the first comprehensive, across-media study of the work of the Lebanese film auteur Ghassan Salhab. His oeuvre emerges in a conceptual environment shaped by a...

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...

Orientalische Bibelhandschriften aus der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK / Oriental Bible Manuscripts from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK

Eine illustrierte Geschichte / An Illustrated History

The collection of Oriental manuscripts at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz forms with its 42,000 volumes one of the most significant collections of its...

History Making in Central and Northern Eurasia

Contemporary Actors and Practices

This volume seeks to extend our understanding of how knowledge about the past was and is being produced in central and northern Eurasia. Its authors use the methods of several...

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...

Hiob zwischen Selbstbezichtigung und Protest

Gedichte aus Mittelasien (19. bis 20. Jahrhundert)

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In mehreren Handschriften überliefert sind Ghasele und andere Gedichte von einem Dichter, der sich Ayyub (Hiob)...

A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English

Many works of Syriac literature, including some now lost, were translated into Sogdian, a language of the Iranian family. The present Dictionary makes this material accessible to...

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,...

Kameldarstellungen aus Metall im vorislamischen Südarabien

Eine archäologische Fallstudie zu den Kulturkontakten zwischen Arabia felix und der Mittelmeerwelt

The present study takes as its basis a collection of 67 bronze camel figurines kept in the Five Continents Museum in Munic of which most will be published here for the very first...

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...

South Arabia and its Neighbours. Phenomena of Intercultural Contacts

14. Recontres Sabéennes

The 14th volume in the series “Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen”, presents the proceedings of the 14th Rencontres Sabéennes which took place in Berlin 2010. The main theme of...

Nomad Military Power in Iran and Adjacent Areas in the Islamic Period

The papers in this anthology shed light on the political and military role and importance of nomadic groups in Iran and adjacent areas, using historical case studies that cover...

Architektur und Struktur des nordöstlichen Stadtgebietes von Kharab Sayyar, Nordsyrien

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Der zweite Band dokumentiert die Struktur und Architektur der Wohngebiete im Südosten der Stadt. Die...