History

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...

Die »nakba« erinnern

Palästinensische Narrative des ersten arabisch-israelischen Kriegs 1948

For Palestinians, the term nakba (catastrophe) subsumes the events within the context of the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, immediately after the foundation of the state of...

Die Inschriften des Bundeslandes Kärnten

Teil 2: Die Inschriften des Politischen Bezirks St. Veit an der Glan

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In 766 Katalognummern einer kommentierten Edition erschließt dieser Band die inschriftlichen Denkmäler des...

Pali and Vernacular Literature Transmitted in Central and Northern Siam

„Pali and Vernacular Literature Transmitted in Central and Northern Siam“ is a preliminary survey of the pre-modern literature of Central and Northern Siam. Based on old records,...

Pali Literature Transmitted in Central Siam

A catalogue based on the Sap Songkhro

„Pali Literature Transmitted in Central Siam“ is a manual of Pali literature. It gives the titles of 529 texts, the majority inscribed on palm-leaf, dealing with Buddhism and...

Rare Texts from Tibet

Seven Sources for the Ecclesiastic History of Medieval Tibet

A preliminary perusal of a puplished set of rare and old bKa’-brgyud-pa manuscript texts that recently surfaces in Lhasa - collected and published under the cover-title „dPal ’Bri...

Die Inschriften des Bundeslandes Niederösterreich

Teil 3: Die Inschriften des Politischen Bezirks Krems

The medieval and early modern epigraphic sources in the district of Krems (Lower Austria) offer an interesting glimpse
into the development of a very important arena of...

Mulva V

Die vormunizipale Besiedlung von Munigua

Munigua, in the province of Sevilla, Spain, was populated from the 4th century BC until the 4th century AD and has been a field of archaeological research for many years. This...

Grenzgänge im östlichen Mittelmeerraum

Byzanz und die islamische Welt vom 9. bis 13. Jahrhundert

The volume presents articles from different academic fields. The geographical focus lies on the Eastern Mediterranean, its chronological framework comprises mainly the 9th to 13th...

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...

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...

Qamishly, Plumes et Ténèbres

Lectures de quatre œuvres en prose de Salim Barakat

This study explores the early prose work of the Syrian-Kurdish novelist and poet Salim Barakat (b. 1951). Containing elements of both the realistic and fantastic, his narrative...

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...

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...

Persisches Lesebuch

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

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...

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...