Bukharan Jews in the 20th Century

History, Experience and Narration

add to cart add to wishlist

Although the Jews of Central Asia have a long, eventful and fascinating history, the community of the Bukharan Jews attracted very little attention from researchers until recently. This new work encompasses twelve scholarly articles in English concerned with historical, linguistic …

Die Inschriften des Bundeslandes Kärnten

Teil 2: Die Inschriften des Politischen Bezirks St. Veit an der Glan

add to cart add to wishlist

In 766 Katalognummern einer kommentierten Edition erschließt dieser Band die inschriftlichen Denkmäler des Kärntner Zentralraumes vom 12. Jahrhundert bis 1650. Erfasst sind nicht nur die heute noch im Original erhaltenen Inschriften, sondern auch diejenigen, die lediglich durch ältere Abschriften, Zeichnungen …

Die Inschriften des Bundeslandes Niederösterreich

Teil 3: Die Inschriften des Politischen Bezirks Krems

add to cart add to wishlist

The medieval and early modern epigraphic sources in the district of Krems (Lower Austria) offer an interesting glimpse
into the development of a very important arena of Austrian as well as European history, namely the Wachau, the
stretch of the Danube between …

Mulva V

Die vormunizipale Besiedlung von Munigua

add to cart add to wishlist

Munigua, in the province of Sevilla, Spain, was populated from the 4th century BC until the 4th century AD and has been a field of archaeological research for many years. This study treats all 1301 findings from Munigua until the …

Grenzgänge im östlichen Mittelmeerraum

Byzanz und die islamische Welt vom 9. bis 13. Jahrhundert

add to cart add to wishlist

The volume presents articles from different academic fields. The geographical focus lies on the Eastern Mediterranean, its chronological framework comprises mainly the 9th to 13th century. The collected articles share a common approach inviting the reader to think across the …

Iran und iranisch geprägte Kulturen

Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Bert G. Fragner

add to cart add to wishlist

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 as China and India. The book collects novel contributions …

Skythika in Transkaukasien

Reiternomadische Sachkultur im archäologischen Fundkontext

add to cart add to wishlist

This volume deals with so called scythoid finds in Transcaucasia usually interpreted as traces of nomadic invasions. On contrary, the analysis of the archaeological material shows a several use of scythian weapons in different contexts. In most cases Scythian finds …

Catalogue des manuscrits de la fondation Georges et Mathilde Salem (Alep, Syrie)

add to cart add to wishlist

The library of the George & Mathilde Salem Foundation (Aleppo, Syria) is one of the most important private collections of manuscripts in the Syrian Arab Republic. It contains 547 copies in Arabic, Syriac and other languages about Christian and Islamic …

Qamishly, Plumes et Ténèbres

Lectures de quatre œuvres en prose de Salim Barakat

add to cart add to wishlist

This study explores the early prose work of the Syrian-Kurdish novelist and poet Salim Barakat (b. 1951). Containing elements of both the realistic and fantastic, his narrative texts center on the life and culture of the Kurds in the 1950s …

Traditionen, Zäsuren, Umbrüche

Inschriften des späten Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit im historischen Kontext. Beiträge zur 11. Internationalen Fachtagung für Epigraphik vom 9. bis 12. Mai 2007 in Greifswald

add to cart add to wishlist

The main themes of the volume are: Visual Representations of Religious Concepts; Early Modern Epigraphic Collections; Genealogy and Princely Self-Presentation; Language and Prestige in Inscriptions, from 1517 until 1648; Death and Burial Culture; The Culture of Funerary Monuments in the …

Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der neuassyrischen Zeit

Teil 1: Die Levante

add to cart add to wishlist

The present work is the last contribution to the edition „Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes“ (RGTC). Thirteen volumes have been already published in this series and they became - along with the corresponding TAVO-historical maps - an important research tool …

Die Alttürkenzeit in Mittel- und Zentralasien

Archäologische und historische Studien

add to cart add to wishlist

This study analyses aspects of the archaeology and history of the period of the Türk Qaghanats in Central Asia (ca. A.D. 550-750). A main focus is to assess the political, social and cultural interrelations between the pastoral nomads of the …

The Sherpa »Dumji« Masked Dance Festival

An ethnographic description of the ›great liturgical performance‹ as celebrated annually according to the tradition of the Lamaserwa clan in the village temple of Gonpa Zhung, Solu

add to cart add to wishlist

Buddhist Iconography and Ritual in Paintings and Line Drawings from Nepal

add to cart add to wishlist

This book is divided into three sections. The first section introduces one specific tradition of Siddhas transmitted by artists from Nepal. This artistic legacy, which is related to a corpus of texts that go back through *Srisena and Bu ston, …

Archäologie der antiken Bischofssitze I

Spätantike Bischofssitze Ägyptens

add to cart add to wishlist

Mehr als einhundert Bischofssitze sind in Ägypten gegen Ende der Spätantike historisch bezeugt. Doch welche Bauformen
wählte man für die bischöflichen Kirchen und welchen Ort nehmen sie innerhalb der Stadttopographie ein? Mit welchem Aufwand wurden die Episkopien gestaltet? Lassen sich karitative …

Cristoforo Buondelmonti. Liber insularum (ULBD Ms. G 13)

Transkription des Düsseldorfer Exemplars, Übersetzung und Kommentar

add to cart add to wishlist

This volume contains a transliteration of "Liber insularum Archipelagi", the Düsseldorfer Manuscript Ms. G 13, that was already published as facsimile in 2005. The book also contains a general map, a translation into German, several annotations and a detailed index.
The …

Die Inschriften der Stadt Trier bis 1500

add to cart add to wishlist

The first volume of the Trier inscriptions contains more than 1000 inscriptions dated up to 1500 and is to be followed by a second volume. In Trier there is a great concentration of mostly Latin tomb inscriptions that lead the …

Persisches Lesebuch

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

add to cart add to wishlist

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 …

Index zu Das christlich-koptische Ägypten in arabischer Zeit (TAVO B 41/1-6)

add to cart add to wishlist

Index zu den den sechs Bänden „Das christlich-koptische Ägypten in arabischer Zeit“, herausgegeben von Stefan Timm.

Dschihad im Kaukasus

Antikolonialer Widerstand der Dagestaner und Tschetschenen gegen das Zarenreich (18. Jahrhundert bis 1859)

add to cart add to wishlist

From an early stage the fight of the Muslim people of the Northern Caucasus against the advancing Russian empire coincided with religious reform movements. The study examines the conditions and development of this process up to the founding of a …