Beiträge zur Iranistik

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...

Towards a Historical Grammar of Balochi

Studies in Balochi Historical Phonology and Vocabulary

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),...

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

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...

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

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...

A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto

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...

Grammaire de l’ormuri de Baraki-Barak (Lôgar, Afghanistan)

Charles M. Kieffer has devoted his life to the study of some of the least known languages of the Iranian family, in particular Ormuri and Parachi, on which he carried out...

Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism

Ever since Ossetic was extensively researched by eminent Iranists like Abaev, Bailey, Gershevitch and Benveniste, the language has earned a prominent place in (Indo-)Iranian and...

»Lohn« im Indoiranischen

Eine semantische Studie des Rigveda und Avesta

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...

Mit goldenem Siegel

Über Briefe, Schreiber und Boten im Sahname

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...

Zazaki

Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie

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Zazaki ist eine am nordwestlichen Rand des kurdischen Sprachgebiets gesprochene nordwestiranische Sprache, die...

Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies

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

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...

Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies

Held in Cambridge, 11th to 15th September 1995. Old and Middle Iranian Studies

The 3rd European Conference of Iranian Studies, at which more than 130 papers were presented, was held in Cambridge in 1995. A selection of the best contributions will be...

Die Natur in der Bildersprache des Sahname

Der Zamyad Yast

Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar

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Der „Zamyad-Yast“ darf als eine der interessantesten und schönsten Hymnen bezeichnet werden, die in den heiligen...

The Khotanese Sanghatasutra

A critical edition

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Das Werk ist eine kritische Edition der khotanischen Version des buddhistischen Sanghatasutras, die gleichzeitig...

Die Entwicklung der Bewässerungslandwirtschaft im Iran bis in sasanidisch-frühislamische Zeit

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Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit bildet die Untersuchung des Agrarsektors des sasanidischen Reiches, das vom 3. bis zur...