Geography

Hevajra and Lam’bras Literature of India and Tibet as Seen Through the Eyes of A-mes-zhabs

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...

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...

Skythika in Transkaukasien

Reiternomadische Sachkultur im archäologischen Fundkontext

This volume deals with so called scythoid finds in Transcaucasia usually interpreted as traces of nomadic invasions. On contrary, the analysis of the archaeological material shows...

Iran und iranisch geprägte Kulturen

Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Bert G. Fragner

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...

Catalogue des manuscrits de la fondation Georges et Mathilde Salem (Alep, Syrie)

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...

Traditional South Asian Medicine TSAM, Vol. 8

„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...

Ma’layba et l’Age du Bronze du Yémen

Ma’layba, a settlement situated in the Aden hinterland (Yemen), was occupied from the end of the 3rd millennium to the 13th century BC. Here the joint German-Russian...

Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der neuassyrischen Zeit

Teil 1: Die Levante

The present work is the last contribution to the edition „Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes“ (RGTC). Thirteen volumes have been already published in this series and...

Existenzsicherung und Mobilität im ariden Marokko

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...

Vom Beutezug zur Territorialherrschaft

Das lange Jahrhundert des Aufstiegs von Nomaden zur Vormacht in Syrien und Mesopotamien 286 bis 420 / 889 bis 1029. Beduinische Gruppen in mittelislamischer Zeit I

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...

Der imaginierte Nomade

Formel und Realitätsbezug bei antiken, mittelalterlichen und arabischen Autoren

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...

Archäologie der antiken Bischofssitze I

Spätantike Bischofssitze Ägyptens

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Mehr als einhundert Bischofssitze sind in Ägypten gegen Ende der Spätantike historisch bezeugt. Doch welche...

Paket Timm TAVO B 41/1-7

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Diese Sammlung führt in sechs Bänden und einem Indexband die wichtigsten ägyptischen Orte auf, an denen es nach...

Index zu Das christlich-koptische Ägypten in arabischer Zeit (TAVO B 41/1-6)

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Index zu den den sechs Bänden „Das christlich-koptische Ägypten in arabischer Zeit“, herausgegeben von Stefan...

Dschihad im Kaukasus

Antikolonialer Widerstand der Dagestaner und Tschetschenen gegen das Zarenreich (18. Jahrhundert bis 1859)

From an early stage the fight of the Muslim people of the Northern Caucasus against the advancing Russian empire coincided with religious reform movements. The study examines the...

Pastoral Morocco

Globalizing Scapes of Mobility and Insecurity

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...

Das alte Vietnam

Auf den Spuren des Abbé Charles-Thomas de Saint-Phalle in Tunkin

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...

Kulturland Georgien

Kurzführer für Touristen

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...

Inkulturation des Christentums im Sasanidenreich

This volume is the edition of various contributions to the subject of Inculturation of Christianity in other cultures. Under various aspects, they all discuss the phenomenon for...

Tradition und Wandel

Untersuchungen zu Gräberfeldern in der Westlichen Han-Zeit (206 v. Chr. bis 9 n. Chr.)

Just before the unification of the Chinese empire by the first emperor Qin Shihuangdi (221 bis 210 BC) China is determined by the antagonism of the two culturally very different...