series: Beiträge zur Iranistik

The series Beiträge zur Iranistik was founded in the 1960s by Georges Redard and subsequently edited by Nicholas Sims-Williams from 1997 to 2020; the present series editor is Agnes Korn. The series publishes works on the languages of the Iranian branch of Indo-European. The focus is on linguistics, including grammars, dictionaries, text editions, philology as well as diachronic and synchronic studies of linguistic topics. Neighbouring fields such as literature, archaeology and anthropology are likewise represented. The languages of the series are English, German and French. The Beiträge zur Iranistik are represented in libraries internationally and are widely used standard works of Iranian studies.

Tabous, interdits et obligations de langage en Afghanistan

Éléments du vocabulaire de la vie privée en terre d’Islam

17 x 24 cm, 168 p., 2 Faltpläne, 4 Diagramme, 76 Tafeln, cloth
59.00 €
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This book reflects on a quarter-century of observations by Charles Kieffer (Research Director CNRS, Paris) during his dialectological research from 1957-1981 in all of Afghanistan, sometimes under very adventurous circumstances.
As a contributor to the “Linguistic Atlas of Afghanistan” under …

Literarische Stoffe und ihre Gestaltung in mitteliranischer Zeit

Kolloquium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Werner Sundermann

17 x 24 cm, 408 p., cloth
79.00 €
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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 languages. Texts and motifs and their origins and developments in Middle …

Zarathushtra entre l’Inde et l’Iran

Études indo-iraniennes et indo-européenes offertes à Jean Kellens à l’occasion de son 65e anniversaire

17 x 24 cm, 390 p., cloth
110.00 €
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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 the pre-islamic Paniranian religion, Mazdaeism or Parsism) of our times, Jean Kellens and to inscenery his …

By Bo Utas. Edited by Carina Jahani and Dariush Kargar

Manuscript, Text and Literature

Collected Essays on Middle and New Persian Texts

17 x 24 cm, 300 p., cloth
49.00 €
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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 birthday. Out of 19 articles, 15 are in English and four …

Iranian Loanwords in Syriac
17 x 24 cm, 364 p., cloth
68.00 €
Band 28
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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 relationship between Middle Persian and Classical Syriac during the Sasanian empire, a subject on which …

Towards a Historical Grammar of Balochi

Studies in Balochi Historical Phonology and Vocabulary

17 x 24 cm, 472 p., cloth
69.00 €
Band 26
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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), the book analyses the development of Old Iranian sounds to the stage of …

Transcribed, translated and annotated by Donald L. Stilo. Supplied with folklorist notes and edited by Ulrich Marzolph

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

17 x 24 cm, 296 p., cloth
88.00 €
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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 language spoken in four villages in central Iran: Vafs, Fark, Chehreqan …

Religious themes and texts of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia

Studies in honour of Professor Gherardo Gnoli on the occasion of his 65th birthday on 6th December 2002

17 x 24 cm, 512 p., cloth
110.00 €
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The volume contains forty-one papers dedicated to the distinguished Iranianist by colleagues, friends and former students, and a complete bibliography of the dedicatee. The papers deal with a variety of themes relating to Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Christianity, Buddhism and the multifarious …

By Georg Morgenstierne. Compiled and edited by J. Elfenbein, D. N. MacKenzie and Nicholas Sims-Williams

A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto
17 x 24 cm, 148 p., cloth
49.00 €
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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 Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto", Georg Morgenstierne identifies loanwords and traces inherited words back …

»Lohn« im Indoiranischen

Eine semantische Studie des Rigveda und Avesta

17 x 24 cm, 372 p., cloth
58.00 €
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This book is a study of words denoting the concept of ’reward‘, ’recompense‘ in the Rigveda and Avesta. The relevant Vedic and Avestan lexical items are contrasted with words for ’gift‘, ’prize‘, ’punishment‘ by using a typical situational frame in …

Von Jürgen Ehlers. Mit einem Vorwort von Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

Mit goldenem Siegel

Über Briefe, Schreiber und Boten im Sahname

17 x 24 cm, 116 p., cloth
28.00 €
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This book examines the secretarial work at the pre-Arab Persian courts as described by Ferdowsi in the Šāhnāme. The work of scribes and messengers and the letters themselves are introduced. Several passages of Ferdowsi’s work, especially letters, are included in …

Zazaki

Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie

17 x 24 cm, 392 p., hardback
59.00 €
Band 18
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Zazaki ist eine am nordwestlichen Rand des kurdischen Sprachgebiets gesprochene nordwestiranische Sprache, die heute von ca. 2 Millionen Sprechern in Südostanatolien als Muttersprache verwendet wird. Es ist eine dem Kurdischen verwandte, aber dennoch eigenständige Sprache. Seit der Eskalation des Konfliktes …

Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies

Held in Cambridge, 11th to 15th September 1999. Mediaeval and Modern Persian

Teil 2
17 x 24 cm, 448 p., cloth
68.00 €
Band 17
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The second volume of the Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies brings together 34 papers in English, French and German, grouped thematically under the headings Linguistic Studies; Literary Studies; Religion and religious literature; history; and Art & …