Afghanistan

Text, script and language in Bactria and Serindia

Papers on cultural and linguistic interactions in pre-Islamic Central Asia

17 x 24 cm, 350 p., hardback
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This collective volume unites ten papers by international specialists in history, philology, linguistics, palaeography and archaeology, dealing with texts written in Bactrian, Khotanese, Tumshuqese, Tocharian, and Gāndhārī (Niya-Prakrit) from Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Northwest China, as well as with classical …

From Ordinary to Luxury

Islamic Ceramics from Iran, Central Asia and Afghanistan

21 x 29.7 cm, 192 p., hardback
79.00 €
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“From Ordinary to Luxury” is based on the glazed and unglazed pottery from The Bumiller Collection and is a profound study of Iranian and Central Asian ceramics. The Bumiller set is not a collection of masterpieces, but gives an insight …

Le verbe pashto

Parcours d’un territoire du verbe simple à la locution verbale

17 x 24 cm, 176 p., cloth
78.00 €
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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 language, Pashto verbs share some main behaviours with the other …

Bukharan Jews in the Soviet Union

Autobiographical Narrations of Mobility, Continuity and Change

17 x 24 cm, 304 p., hardback
118.00 €
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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 in the twentieth century, enabling the reader to gain deep insights into the varied …

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 …

Aromata in der iranischen Kultur

unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der persischen Dichtung

17 x 24 cm, 368 p., hardback
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This volume is the result of more than 10 years' research in Persian culture from the Achaemenid period (559 B.C.) until the end of the Safavids’ time (1722 A.D.). The main concern was finding out what the sources tell us …

Literarische Stoffe und ihre Gestaltung in mitteliranischer Zeit

Kolloquium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Werner Sundermann

17 x 24 cm, 408 p., cloth
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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 …

The Baloch and Others

Linguistic, Historical and Socio-Political Perspectives on Pluralism in Balochistan

17 x 24 cm, 400 p., hardback
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Throughout history Balochistan has been an important contact zone between the Indian Subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau. Today Balochistan is a land divided among several states. It is a region where a variety of languages intermingle, different religions jostle for …

Persisches Lesebuch

Farsi, Dari, Tojiki. Originaltexte aus zehn Jahrhunderten mit Kommentar und Glossar

17 x 24 cm, 432 p., hardback
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The „Persian reader“ documents the development of the Modern Persian written language, based on a representative selection of original texts ranging from poetry and the literary prose of Ferdawsi (10/11th century) to modern literature, in its entire historical and geographical …

Muhammad Iqbal’s Romanticism of Power

A Post-Structural Approach to His Persian Lyrical Poetry

17 x 24 cm, 284 p., hardback
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A study of the Persian poetry of Muḥammad Iqbāl (1877-1938), today Pakistan’s national poet, this work identifies the position his poems occupied between tradition and modernity, specifying the appeal they held for his contemporaries. Drawing on structural text analysis, the …

Aus dem Dari übersetzt und herausgegeben von Lutz Rzehak

Die Taliban im Land der Mittagssonne

Geschichten aus der afghanischen Provinz. Erinnerungen und Notizen von Abdurrahman Pahwal

148 x 210 cm, 144 p., paperback / softback
16.90 €
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The book presents the German translation of a Persian manuscript from Afghanistan with personal memories and notes of the reign of the Taliban which were written down by a local intellectual immediately at the time of the Taliban. It seems …

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 …

The Baloch and Their Neighbours

Ethnic and Linguistic Contact in Balochistan in Historical and Modern Times

17 x 24 cm, 380 p., hardback
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The present volume contains the contributions of an international symposium on linguistic contact in Balochistan. The issues treated range from linguistic contact of Balochi and its neighbour languages in historical and modern times to sociolinguistic questions of multilingualism and to …