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Die Stuckarbeiten aus Kharab Sayyar
Das Große Haus und die Moschee
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Einer der überraschenden Entdeckungen unserer Ausgrabungen im abbasidischen Kharab Sayyar war die Freilegung...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
Symbolische Repräsentation und Wirklichkeit nomadischen Lebens
This essay collection brings together contributions from two research colloquia of the Collaborative Research Center “Difference and Integration. The interaction between nomadic...
Amsterdam Middle Eastern Studies
This collection of articles sheds some more light on the research effort and activity of the Institute for Modern Near Eastern Studies of the University of Amsterdam and presents...