Zazaki

Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie

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Zazaki ist eine am nordwestlichen Rand des kurdischen Sprachgebiets gesprochene nordwestiranische Sprache, die heute von ca. 2 Millionen Sprechern in Südostanatolien als Muttersprache verwendet wird. Es ist eine dem Kurdischen verwandte, aber dennoch eigenständige Sprache. Seit der Eskalation des Konfliktes …

Persisch aktiv

Eine Einführung in Sprache und Kultur

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Diese zeitgemäße Einführung in die persische Gegenwartssprache wendet sich an Studierende orientalistischer Fächer ebenso wie an ein interessiertes nicht-akademisches Publikum. Das Lehrbuch ist die deutsche Version eines erfolgreichen englischsprachigen Persischkurses. In zehn Lektionen werden die Grundkompetenzen Sprechen, Hören, Lesen und …

Dari-Persisch

Lehr- und Übungsbuch mit Lösungen, Audio- und Videomaterial

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This textbook offers a communicative-oriented introduction to the Dari-Persian language of Afghanistan and aims to acquire a comprehensive basic knowledge.
An introductory chapter is devoted to the Arabic-Persian script and the pronunciation of Dari-Persian. In forty further chapters, the learners …

Turandot Die persische Märchenerzählung

Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar

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The story of Turandot is one of the most famous and influential tales from the Islamic Orient. It has been reflected in numerous artistic adaptations as well as in popular tradition.
Contrary to a widely held opinion, Turandot is not a …

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 …

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 …

From Old to New Persian

Collected Essays

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In a long series of essays, written during almost half a century, Bo Utas analyses the development of West Iranian languages, particularly Old, Middle, and New Persian, from various perspectives. The focus is placed on the transition from Middle to …

Nachtigallen an Gottes Thron

Studien zur persischen Dichtung

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To date, only a few pioneers have made classical Persian poetry and philosophy accessible to the occidental eye. During the 17th and 18th centuries, influential travellers brought goods, travelogues and translations back from Persia. Around 1800, enthusiasm for the oriental …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Iran und iranisch geprägte Kulturen

Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Bert G. Fragner

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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 …

Persisches Lesebuch

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

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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 …

Towards a Historical Grammar of Balochi

Studies in Balochi Historical Phonology and Vocabulary

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The main part of the book is a new systematic treatment of the historical phonology of Balochi. Comparing important related languages (chiefly Avestan, New Persian and Parthian), the book analyses the development of Old Iranian sounds to the stage of …

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 …

Vom Persischen zum Tadschikischen

Sprachliches Handeln und Sprachplanung in Transoxanien zwischen Tradition, Moderne und Sowjetmacht (1900 bis 1956)

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Diese Arbeit untersucht auf der Basis zeitgenössischer Quellen den Wandel der persisch-tadschikischen Sprache Transoxaniens von einer Sprache, die im multilingualen Milieu Mittelasiens eine führende Position in den Bereichen Religion, Wissenschaft, Literatur, Verwaltung, Schriftverkehr und Handel innehatte, zu einer Sprache, deren …

Verbergänzungen und zusammengesetzte Verben im Persischen

Eine valenztheoretische Analyse

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Die vorliegende Studie ist die erste umfassende Analyse der Verbergänzungen und zusammengesetzten Verben im Persischen auf der Grundlage einer der erfolgreichsten linguistischen Theorien, die sich auch in der Praxis bewährt hat: der Valenztheorie. Daß die in der linguistischen Forschung zum …