Middle and Central Asia. General

Editor: Gruschke, Andreas; Breuer, Ingo

Tibetan Pastoralists and Development

Negotiating the Future of Grassland Livelihoods

The unique pastoralist economy, society, and culture on the Tibetan plateau has experienced profound changes during the 20th century: An ever closer integration into the Chinese...

Büssow-Schmitz, Sarah

Die Beduinen der Mamluken

Beduinen im politischen Leben Ägyptens im 8./14. Jahrhundert

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During the fourteenth century, the Bedouins (ʿarab) of Egypt experienced a significant increase in power. The...

Editor: Baldauf, Ingeborg; Gammer, Moshe; Loy, Thomas

Bukharan Jews in the 20th Century

History, Experience and Narration

Although the Jews of Central Asia have a long, eventful and fascinating history, the community of the Bukharan Jews attracted very little attention from researchers until...

Übersetzung aus dem Uzbekischen und Kommentar von Ingeborg Baldauf

Shukrullo: Die ohne Leichentuch Begrabenen

Politische Verfolgung an der sowjetischen Peripherie, erzählt und erinnert durch den uzbekischen Dichter Shukrullo

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Kaum war in Uzbekistan die Perestroika angekommen, veröffentlichte der bekannte Schriftsteller Shukrullo 1991...

Kauz, Ralph

Politik und Handel zwischen Ming und Timuriden

China, Iran und Zentralasien im Spätmittelalter

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In dieser Studie werden auf der Grundlage von chinesischen und persischen Quellen die politischen und...

Loy, Thomas

Jaghnob 1970

Erinnerungen an eine Zwangsumsiedlung in der Tadschikischen SSR

On the basis of archive material, press releases and recollections the history of the forced migration of the Jaghnobi in Soviet Tajikistan in the 1970ies is reconstructed. The...

Rzehak, Lutz

Tadschikische Studiengrammatik

This is the first manual to be published in German on Tajik and its contemporary usage in Central Asia. Learners of the language are guided through the grammar, phonetics and...

Editor: Humbach, Helmut; Ziegler, Susanne

Ptolemy, Geography Book 6

Middle East, Central and North Asia, China. Part 1. Text and English/German Translations

Book 6 of Ptolemy’s „Geography“ (2nd cent. AD) deals with Assyria, Media, Susiana, Persis, Parthia, the Carmanian Desert, Arabia Felix, Carmania, Hyrcania, Margiana, Bactriana,...