Geography

Minstrel Poetry from the Pamir Mountains

A Study on the Songs and Poems of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan

This book is a description and an analysis of the sung poetry of the Ismailis from Tajik Badakhshan and is based on material collected during fieldwork in the Pamir Mountains, in...

Governing the Holy City

The Interaction of Social Groups in Jerusalem between the Fatimid and the Ottoman Period

The history of Jerusalem during the Islamic Middle Ages was not confined to the foundation of sanctuaries, and the struggle over their control – even if these aspects could not be...

Musker und Phryger

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte Anatoliens vom 12. bis zum 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr.

This book, a commentary to the TAVO-map B IV 8 „Eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia around 700 B. C.“, deals with the solution of the question of the identity and identification...

Einführung in die Geo-Archäologie des Vorderen Orients

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Die Ergebnisse archäologischer Forschungen im Vorderen Orient werfen verschiedene grundsätzliche Fragen auf,...

Stone Age Sites and their Natural Environment

The Capital Area of Northern Oman. Part III

This volume presents the data and interpretations which served as a basis for part 4 (Stone Age Settlements on the Coast of Ra’s al-Hamra. Masqat, Oman) of TAVO Map B I 8 dealing...

Religious themes and texts of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia

Studies in honour of Professor Gherardo Gnoli on the occasion of his 65th birthday on 6th December 2002

The volume contains forty-one papers dedicated to the distinguished Iranianist by colleagues, friends and former students, and a complete bibliography of the dedicatee. The papers...

Traditional South Asian Medicine TSAM, Vol. 7

Traditional South Asian Medicine (previously Journal of the European Âyurvedic Society) is a scholarly journal devoted primarily to the study of all aspects of traditional South...

Die Literaturen der Völker Kaukasiens

Neue Übersetzungen und deutschsprachige Bibliographie

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Die Literaturen der Völker des Kaukasus (Kaukasiens) sind in Europa weitgehend unbekannt. Mit dem vorliegenden...

Grammaire de l’ormuri de Baraki-Barak (Lôgar, Afghanistan)

Charles M. Kieffer has devoted his life to the study of some of the least known languages of the Iranian family, in particular Ormuri and Parachi, on which he carried out...

Studien zur Christianisierung Nubiens

In this study, the author has assembled the literary and archeological sources that illuminate the Christianization of Nubia in the sixth century. At their center stands a report...

Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey

This detailed handbook contents of a catalogue of ethnic groups, surveys, lists by villages and administrative districts, essays on selected groups by contributing authors, and...

Ptolemy, Geography Book 6 Part 2

Middle East, Central and North Asia, China. Part 2: Maps in Simplified Reconstruction, Notes and Indexes with a Supplement: NW and W India

Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey

(Unveränderter Nachdruck)

This detailed handbook contents of a catalogue of ethnic groups, surveys, lists by villages and administrative districts, essays on selected groups by contributing authors, and...

Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey

Supplement and Index

This volume represents a supplement to the first volume, which appeared in 1989, and provided the documentation on which TAVO maps A VIII 14 a-b (Republic of Turkey: Rural Ethnic...

Stamm und Macht

Die arabischen Stämme im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert der Hidschra

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Der erste Band dieser Reihe analysiert erstmals systematisch Stammeskonflikte aus dem 2. und 3. Jahrhundert der...

Three-Vow Theories in Tibetan Buddhism

A Comparative Study of Major Traditions from the Twelfth through Nineteenth Centuries

Since the 12th century, a central feature of Buddhism in Tibet was its harmonizing of tantric practice with the moral codes of monastic discipline and Bodhisattva altruism. All...

Iranische Geistlichkeit zwischen Utopie und Realismus

Zum Diskurs über Herrschafts- und Staatsdenken im 20. Jahrhundert

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Ist die religiöse Vernunft in der Lage, der Herausforderung gerecht zu werden, die die Moderne für den Islam...

Répertoire Géographiques des Textes Cunéiformes

Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der Texte aus Syrien im 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr.

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Das Répertoire Géographique ist längst zu einem unentbehrlichen Handbuch in der Altorientalistik geworden. Mit...

Democracy and Oil

The Case of Azerbaiijan

The topic of this book is the development of democracy and human rights in Azerbaijan. But since these virtues are inversely correlated with corruption, it is natural to raise...

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...