Le verbe pashto

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

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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 …

Ditransitive constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective

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The issue of ditransitive constructions has enjoyed increased attention over the last decade, and a number of important studies appeared. However, a number of questions are not quite explored yet. The contributions in this volume address a variety of languages, …

Endangered Iranian Languages

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This edited volume brings together work by theoretical linguists and field linguists who share a strong commitment to the scientific documentation and investigation of endangered Iranian languages. Five chapters of this volume represent the contributors’ findings on endangered Iranian languages …

Prospective and Proximative in Turkic, Iranian and beyond

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The present volume addresses the linguistic categories of Prospective and Proximative, which refer to an event before it actually takes place, in a number of languages spoken in Eurasia. For most treated languages, these categories are described here for the …

Azandname

An edition and literary-critical study of the Manichaean-Sogdian Parable-Book

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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 Sogdian text with English translation and philological commentary. The …

Lokale und imperiale Herrschaft im Iran des 12. Jahrhunderts

Herrschaftspraxis und Konzepte

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How is political rule organised? Top-down, in a process of delegation? Or are there other forms and can local rulers take their position without being legitimised from above, relying on their own basis of power?
This book takes a fresh look …

Dance in Iran

Past and Present

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This volume is an extraordinary history of dance, full of mystery and humor. The various developments in the history of this art in Iran have never before been presented in a single book, making “Dance in Iran: Past and Present” …

Bukharan Jews in the Soviet Union

Autobiographical Narrations of Mobility, Continuity and Change

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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 …

The Mukri Variety of Central Kurdish

Grammar, Texts, and Lexicon

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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 dialect and the speech community, ten texts with English translations, two interlinear morphemic …

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 Justice’. The text is accompanied by an English translation, philological commentary and glossary. In addition, the main themes of the Rašn …

Textbuch modernes Persisch

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The Textbook Modern Persian contains thirty selected readings about contemporary Iran from various disciplinary perspectives. Each chapter of the book includes an introduction to the topic, a rating of the complexity of the text, the philological acquisition of lexical fields …

Wörterbuch der altpersischen Königsinschriften

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The present volume is closing a gap of the specialist literature felt for some time. In it may be found a comprehensive Old Persian dictionary based on the author’s edition of the texts („Die altpersischen Inschriften der Achaimeniden“, Wiesbaden 2009); …

The Gorani language of Zarda, a village of West Iran

Texts, grammar, and lexicon

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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 Kermanshah province, western Iran. The volume contains background information about the …

Die Kujuji-Stiftungen in Tabriz

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Jalayiriden (Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar)

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The Kujuji-foundations from 780/1380 are a vivid testimony to an outstanding personality in Tabriz during the Jalayerid period. Their founder, Khwaja Shaikh Kujuji, appears in the sources as political advisor to the rulers of his time, as urban notable, poet, …

Divrigi

Unterwegs zur türkischen Mystik in Stein

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Since the medieval building complex consisting of the Friday mosque and the psychiatric hospital was declared “World Cultural Heritage Site” in 1986 the small provincial town of Divriği, hidden in the mountains of East Taurus, has become a popular destination …

Nomad Aristocrats in a World of Empires

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The papers published in this volume go back to a conference held November 2011 in Hamburg. The conference was built around the question of domination: of nomads over sedentary people, of sedentary people over nomads, and of nomads over nomads. …

Grammaire juhuri, ou judéo-tat, langue iranienne des Juifs du Caucase de l’est

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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, reflected by noteworthy archaisms, constitutes an important component of the language, but Juhuri has also …

Topics in Iranian Linguistics

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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 Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. This series of conferences brings together scholars from …

Arabische Welt. Grammatik, Dichtung und Dialekte

Beiträge einer Tagung im Juli 2008 in Erlangen zu Ehren von Wolfdietrich Fischer

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This volume contains a selection of 15 contributions stemming from a conference of the same name held in July 2008 in honor of the Erlanger Orientalist Wolfdietrich Fischer. Wolfdietrich Fischer, who held the chair of Oriental Philology at the University …

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 …