Persian (Farsi)

Persisch aktiv

Eine Einführung in Sprache und Kultur

21 x 29.7 cm, 408 p., paperback / softback
59.00 €
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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

17 x 24 cm, 864 p., paperback / softback
59.00 €
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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 …

Textbuch modernes Persisch
17 x 24 cm, 336 p., hardback
39.90 €
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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 …

Tabous, interdits et obligations de langage en Afghanistan

Éléments du vocabulaire de la vie privée en terre d’Islam

17 x 24 cm, 168 p., 2 Faltpläne, 4 Diagramme, 76 Tafeln, cloth
59.00 €
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This book reflects on a quarter-century of observations by Charles Kieffer (Research Director CNRS, Paris) during his dialectological research from 1957-1981 in all of Afghanistan, sometimes under very adventurous circumstances.
As a contributor to the “Linguistic Atlas of Afghanistan” under …

Aromata in der iranischen Kultur

unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der persischen Dichtung

17 x 24 cm, 368 p., hardback
79.00 €
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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 …

By Bo Utas. Edited by Carina Jahani and Dariush Kargar

Manuscript, Text and Literature

Collected Essays on Middle and New Persian Texts

17 x 24 cm, 300 p., cloth
49.00 €
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This book is a selected collection of the scholarly production on Middle and New Persian literature by professor emeritus Bo Utas, Uppsala University, presented to him on his 70th birthday. Out of 19 articles, 15 are in English and four …

Iranian Loanwords in Syriac
17 x 24 cm, 364 p., cloth
68.00 €
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The book investigates the deep linguistic contact between Iranians and Arameans from the formation of the Achaemenid empire onwards, and focuses especially on the linguistic relationship between Middle Persian and Classical Syriac during the Sasanian empire, a subject on which …

Persisches Lesebuch

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

17 x 24 cm, 432 p., hardback
59.00 €
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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 …

Poetry’s Voice – Society’s Norms

Forms of Interaction between Middle Eastern Writers and their Societies

17 x 24 cm, 306 p., hardback
68.00 €
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Literary works are much more than mere illustrations of societal conditions. Literature is the setting in which society discusses itself. In this volume, international scholars of Literary Studies as well as specialists in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish Studies explore …

Nizamis Schatzkammer der Geheimnisse

Eine Untersuchung zu Mahzan ul-asrar

17 x 24 cm, 432 p., hardback
35.00 €
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This study of Niẓāmī’s (d. 1209) Makhzan ul-asrār (Treasure of Mysteries) deals with problems of the work’s history and reception, analyzing the formal setting of the poem as well as its stylistic elements, in particular its rich and difficult imagery. …

Muhammad Iqbal’s Romanticism of Power

A Post-Structural Approach to His Persian Lyrical Poetry

17 x 24 cm, 284 p., hardback
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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 …

Writers and Rulers

Perspectives on Their Relationship from Abbasid to Safavid Times

17 x 24 cm, 260 p., hardback
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Nine essays explore the ways in which individual Arabic and Persian authors between the 9th and 17th centuries (with examples drawn from the Abbasid to the Safavid dynasties) chose rulers and other political leaders as the recipients for their writings, …

Vom Persischen zum Tadschikischen

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

17 x 24 cm, 476 p., 18 Tabellen, hardback
59.00 €
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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 …

Von Jürgen Ehlers. Mit einem Vorwort von Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

Mit goldenem Siegel

Über Briefe, Schreiber und Boten im Sahname

17 x 24 cm, 116 p., cloth
28.00 €
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This book examines the secretarial work at the pre-Arab Persian courts as described by Ferdowsi in the Šāhnāme. The work of scribes and messengers and the letters themselves are introduced. Several passages of Ferdowsi’s work, especially letters, are included in …