The dissolution of the Soviet Union and the appearance of new independent states in its place resulted in dramatic changes in geopolitics. Azerbaijan emerged as one of the new spheres of interest in the world community. Its historical legacy as …
Der Kaukasus, jenes Randgebirge unseres Kontinents, in dem die höchsten Berge Europas aufragen, bezaubert und fesselt nicht nur durch seine landschaftliche Schönheit sondern auch durch die dort beheimateten zahlreichen Völker. Schon im Altertum wurde der Kaukasus als „Berg der Sprachen“ …
This volume focuses on the veneration of the prophet Muhammad in Central Asia towards the end of the 19th century. It presents three text that praise the birth of the prophet: the "Mawludu ’n-nabi“ by Hilwati (1858–1921), a work by …
The twelve essays in this volume survey aspects of Buddhism and Buddhist literature in pre-modern South-East Asia and Thailand, drawing on Pali and vernacular texts, liturgy, and inscriptions. They discuss Theravadin conceptions of the Bodhisatta, relations between Sanskrit and vernacular …
The Hevajra Tantras and teachings of the 'Path with Its Fruit' (lam ‘bras) that originated in India have been central practices of Tibetan tantric Buddhism for a millenium. The Tibetans translated eight Hevajra transmissions with their tantras, commentaries, rituals, and …
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 …
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 …
„Traditional South Asian Medicine“ is a scholarly journal devoted to research into all aspects of traditional medicine in South Asia. It does not appear regularly. Contributions may be in English, French or German, but the use of English is preferred.
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Applying different methods on a broad range of sources, the present book attempts to transcend the limits between disciplines of Oriental Studies in twenty articles dedicated to the scholar Heinz Gaube. Focusing on cultural connections between the Arab and the …
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, …
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 …
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 …
The Georgians are one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Caucasus, which during their history have created many splendid works of art and culture. This compilation lists all kinds of monuments that might be of interest to the traveler …
In 1779, the German scholar Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard translated the French book “Histoire naturelle, civile et politique du Tonquin” of Jérôme Richard, which had been printed the year before in Paris. The Abbé Richard’s book was itself a published …
Pastoral Morocco explores the mobility of people and livestock in the context of neo-liberal globalization. Mobility is defined as a strategy to maintain and enhance access to resources, and hence comprehended as a strategy of pastoralists to cope with insecurity …
When a pre-modern author writes about nomads, his writing is immediately suspected of being soaked with literary formulae. This suspicion, which is no doubt justified, is for the historian linked to the question: what kind of reality can be seen …
The living conditions of former nomads in the arid mountain and desert regions of Morocco have been subject to dramatic change during the last decades. New economic and social dynamics imply new opportunities, but also entail risks, becoming manifest, for …
Bedouins made history founding small states in the midst of cultural areas—these peculiar incidents of the 10th century, unique to the Islamic Middle Age, have prompted the assumption that the Fertile Crescent was ‘bedouinized’. Kurt Franz presents a critical overview …
