Beiträge zur Iranistik

A Grammar of Şirvan Tat

A Grammar of Şirvan Tat is a grammatical description of a dialect of Tat, a non-written Iranian language spoken in the Caucasus. The project draws on a corpus of Tat spontaneous...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

From Old to New Persian

Collected Essays

In a long series of essays, written during almost half a century, Bo Utas analyses the development of West Iranian languages, particularly Old, Middle, and New Persian, from...

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...

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 Gorani language of Gawraju a village of West Iran

Texts, grammar, and lexicon

This book describes an endangered variety of Gorani spoken by an Ahl-i Haqq (Yaresan) community in a village of western Iran, Kermanshah province. It contains a grammatical...

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...

The Persian language in history

Fourteen papers on a diversity of themes relating to the grammar and the vocabulary of Persian, Middle Persian texts, non-standard and early varieties of Persian, and dialects of...

Tabous, interdits et obligations de langage en Afghanistan

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

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...

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...

Zarathushtra entre l’Inde et l’Iran

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

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...

Manuscript, Text and Literature

Collected Essays on Middle and New Persian Texts

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...

Iranian Loanwords in Syriac

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...

Iran und iranisch geprägte Kulturen

Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Bert G. Fragner

From ancient times, 'Iranianate' cultures and the Persian language had a significant role beyond the borders of Iran: in the lands of the Near & Middle East, Central Asia as far...