Ein Schatzhaus indischer Erzählkunst – Die Erzählliteratur der Jainas

Band 1: Ein „Lesebuch“ originalsprachlicher Texte

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Der Jainismus, eine der drei großen in Indien entstandenen Religionen, hat eine Erzählliteratur hervorgebracht, die von seltener Fülle und vielleicht von einzigartigem Einfallsreichtum ist. Das Interesse, das die Erzählungen und Erzählstoffe der Jainas alleine für sich genommen und dann auch …

Von Buddha bis Hafiz – Aufsätze zu Indologie und Iranistik

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In the first part of this work are described the religion and art of Buddhism as well as ancient and late medieval weapons. The second part consists of aspects of Iran's material culture, presented from historical and literary sources, especially …

Miniaturen mittelalterlicher Kalpasutra-Handschriften

Eine ikonographische Betrachtung mit kultur- und religionsgeschichtlichen Anmerkungen

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The focus of this study on Indian book illumination are the miniatures of six Jain Kalpasūtra manuscripts produced in western India (Gujarat and Rajasthan) as well as in Jaunpur, the capital of a Sultanate located further to the northeast, during …

Aus den Tiefenschichten der Texte

Beiträge zur turko-iranischen Welt von der Islamisierung bis zur Gegenwart

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Being case studies, the contributions to this volume highlight various aspects of the Turco-Iranian world starting from the Islamization in the 7th century up to the present day. Covering the broad geographical spectrum spanning from the Bosporus via Upper Mesopotamia …

Die Messingstadt

Eine Erzählung aus „Tausendundeiner Nacht“. Architektur einer Heiligwerdung

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Anyone associating The Arabian Nights with erotic stories will doubtlessly be disappointed when reading “City of Brass” (Nights 566−578). This tale deals not with the lust for life but, on the contrary, with the vanity of existence: Each individual who …

Aromata in der iranischen Kultur

unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der persischen Dichtung

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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 …

Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

Jahrbuch der Ernst-Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Band 2

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The subjects of volume 2 of the „Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie“ (BIKA, Contributions to Islamic Art History and Archaeology) include architecture, painting, textile arts, minor and applied arts as well as archaeology. Analyses of individual works and groups …

The Baloch and Others

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

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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 …

Zeitschrift für Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen

Band 2, 2007

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P. A. ELTSOV: The idea of civilization in ancient Indian literature and South Asian archaeology
H. SCHENK: Parthian glazed pottery from Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean trade
H. FALK: Ten rock-shelter inscriptions from Ruhuna, southern Sri Lanka
P. YULE: Safãr, capital …

Kategorien der Wirklichkeit im frühen Yogacara

Der Fünf-vastu-Abschnitt in der Viniscayasamgrahani der Yogacarabhumi

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This book investigates the concept of the five “categories” (vastu) in the Buddhist Yogacara tradition. The five vastus may be understood as an attempt at categorizing all aspects of existence and as such they may probably be regarded as an …

Muhammad Iqbal’s Romanticism of Power

A Post-Structural Approach to His Persian Lyrical Poetry

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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 …

The Baloch and Their Neighbours

Ethnic and Linguistic Contact in Balochistan in Historical and Modern Times

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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 …

Historiographie als Sinnstiftung

Indo-persische Geschichtsschreibung während der Mogulzeit (932 bis 1118/1516 bis 1707)

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Diese Monographie stellt 23 ausgewählte historiographische Texte aus der Zeit der in Indien vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert herrschenden Mogulkaiser vor und wertet sie aus. Der Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt auf der Darstellung der narrativen, vergangenheitsbewältigenden Strategien der Chronisten. …