Philologia Iranica

Author : Ilya Gershevitch
Publisher : Dr Ludwig Reichert
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015010554650

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Philologia Iranica by Ilya Gershevitch Pdf

A selection of 25 important articles and reviews by the distinguished Iranianist Ily Gershevitch is reprinted in this volume marking the occason of his 70th birthday. The articles, all written in English, orginally appeared between 1942 and 1977 were corrected and updated for this edition. This volume also contains a portait of the author as well as a complete bibliography of his writings and extensive indexes which greatly enhance the usefulness of this collection.

Author : Jan Tavernier
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9042918330

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Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550-330 B.C.) by Jan Tavernier Pdf

This book collects and discusses the Old Iranian divine names, personal names, geographical names (toponyms, hydronyms and oronyms) and loanwords, which are attested in texts written in Aramaic, Babylonian, Egyptian, Elamite, Lycian, Lydian and Phrygian. The texts, both royal inscriptions and documentary texts, are discovered in the entire territory of the Achaemenid Empire (from Egypt to Bactria), which controlled the Ancient Near East from ca. 550 to 331 B.C. The Iranica discussed in this book are divided into four categories: (1) directly transmitted Iranica, (2) semi-directly transmitted Iranica, (3) foreign Iranica and (4) indirectly transmitted Iranica (the so-called "Altiranische Nebenuberlieferung"). All expressions, which do not belong to one of these categories, are brought together in a section called "Incerta". The etymology and linguistic setting of each Iranian expression is studied and a list of occurrences is added to this analysis.

Author : Amin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004670549

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Iranica Varia: Papers in Honor of Professor Ehsan Yarshater by Amin Pdf

Author : Sarah Stewart,Alan Williams,Almut Hintze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857728159

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The Zoroastrian Flame by Sarah Stewart,Alan Williams,Almut Hintze Pdf

For many centuries, from the birth of the religion late in the second millennium BC to its influence on the Achaemenids and later adoption in the third century AD as the state religion of the Sasanian Empire, it enjoyed imperial patronage and profoundly shaped the culture of antiquity. The Magi of the New Testament most probably were Zoroastrian priests from the Iranian world, while the enigmatic figure of Zarathushtra (or Zoroaster) himself has exerted continual fascination in the West, influencing creative artists as diverse as Voltaire, Nietzsche, Mozart and Yeats. This authoritative volume brings together internationally recognised scholars to explore Zoroastrianism in all its rich complexity. Examining key themes such as history and modernity, tradition and scripture, art and architecture and minority status and religious identity, it places the modern Zoroastrians of Iran, and the Parsis of India, in their proper contexts. The book extends and complements the coverage of its companion volume, The Everlasting Flame.

Author : Agnes Korn
Publisher : Dr Ludwig Reichert
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015063163227

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Towards a Historical Grammar of Balochi by Agnes Korn Pdf

The aim of the present work is to contribute to the knowledge of Balochi historical grammar. The main part of the book is a new discussion of the historical phonology of Balochi, the only comprehensive treatment of which existing so far dates from the end of the 19th century. Meanwhile, new material from a wide range of Balochi dialects and varieties has come to light. This makes it possible to distinguish between sound changes affecting the Balochi language as a whole and those that operate only in some variety; the approach to do so systematically is attempted here for the first time. Reassessing previous treatments and comparing important related languages (chiefly New Persian, Parthian and Avestan), the book analyses the development of Old Iranian sounds to the stage of Common Balochi and the changes leading from that stage to the variants spoken today in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and some other countries. The results indicate contact with other languages, specifically with Persian, as several Balochi sound changes are not such as we might expect in a North Western Iranian language. Concerning other sound changes, Balochi differs from all attested Middle Iranian languages. The predecessor of contemporary Balochi seems to have been a dialect rather similar to Parthian, but differing from it in a number of details. So the study of Balochi sound changes provides evidence for Middle Iranian dialectal variation. The diversity and intensity of contacts with neighbouring languages is also reflected in the Balochi lexicon of which selected fields are presented and discussed. The layers of loanwords show a continuing influence of Persian from the earliest times to the present day, relationships to Kurdish, Pashto and Brahui, and, particularly in the field of kinship terminology, intense contact with speakers of Modern Indic languages. The book is complemented by a morphological appendix and a comprehensive etymological index. It is intended as a contribution in the fields of New Iranian languages and historical Iranian linguistics.

Author : Mark Dickens
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643911032

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Echoes of a Forgotten Presence by Mark Dickens Pdf

This volume is a collection of ten articles published between 2009 and 2016 by Mark Dickens on the Assyrian Church of the East in Central Asia, along with a new article on Mar Yahbalaha III, the only Turkic patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. Most articles deal with the textual evidence for Syriac Christianity in Central Asia, including six on Christian manuscript fragments from Turfan (China) and two on gravestone inscriptions from Semirechye (Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan). As the volume title indicates, these articles remind us of the centuries-long presence of the Assyrian Church of the East at the centre of the Asian continent, now all but forgotten due to the general scarcity of sources from which this history can be reconstructed.

Author : Robert Petkovšek,Bojan Žalec
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : 9783643961266

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Ethical Implications of One God by Robert Petkovšek,Bojan Žalec Pdf

"The issue of the ethical implications of monotheism is a very relevant topic from the point of view of contemporary humanities and social science, and from the perspective of the cultural and political condition in Europe and at the global scale. Therefore a scientific book devoted to this subject makes a lot of sense. Throughout the history and in present times, monotheism has been subjected to several sharp criticisms. On the other hand, we find also very different evaluations of it. They stress its positive and even crucial contribution to peace, forming of rational, non-violent, tolerant culture and society, to the scientific, political and cultural development, to democracy etc. The book offers fresh interdisciplinary perspectives - mainly from the point of view of humanities - on the ethical aspects of monotheism, broadens the scientific understanding of it, and establishes a basis for resolving conflicts to which the understanding of monotheism is relevant or even decisive."--

Author : Guand-da, Zhang,Litvinsky, B.,Shabani Samghabadi, R.,UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231032110

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History of civilizations of Central Asia by Guand-da, Zhang,Litvinsky, B.,Shabani Samghabadi, R.,UNESCO Pdf

In this third volume covering the flourishing period from the third to the eighth century A.D., scholars describe the powerful role played by the Sasanian state in Iran, the Gupta empire in India and the T'ang dynasty in China. Waves of nomadic migrations and the formation of steppe empires left their mark on political and social life. This multiethnic society had its roots in the great religious traditions of Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Christianity and Shamanism. The Islamization of a great part of the region brought fundamental changes to all aspects of life. Intensive trade along the Silk Route encouraged cultural and scientific exchanges, making this period one of impressive artistic and intellectual creativity.

Author : Ahmad Hasan Dani
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 8120815408

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History of Civilizations of Central Asia by Ahmad Hasan Dani Pdf

Author : R. E. Emmerick
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Iranian languages
ISBN : 3447056703

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Iranian Languages and Texts from Iran and Turan by R. E. Emmerick Pdf

This Memorial Volume is dedicated to one of the most prolific and renowned scholars in the field of Iranian Studies, the late Professor Ronald E. Emmerick, who held the chair of Iranian Studies in Hamburg until his untimely death in 2001. The volume consists of thirty-three papers, written by some of the foremost scholars in the field of Iranian Studies. The articles are essentially concerned with Old, New and especially Middle Iranian languages and texts, reflecting the predominant scholarly interests of Ronald Emmerick, whose reasearches were also directed towards Indian and Tibetan Studies. Nine papers deal with the Khotanese and Tumshuquese language, one of Emmericks main ? elds of research. The volume is accompanied by an updated Bibliography and Indices of quotations and of words.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004517981

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Byzantium to China: Religion, History and Culture on the Silk Roads by Anonim Pdf

This volume celebrates the outstanding achievements of Samuel N. C. Lieu and his contribution to Manichaean, Roman, Byzantine, and Silk Road Studies. Readers will find his wide range of scholarly interests reflected in the contributions of his colleagues and former students.

Author : Farīdūn Vahman,G. S. Asatrian
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8772891513

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West Iranian Dialect Materials from the Collection of D.L. Lorimer: Short-stories of the Baxtiārīs by Farīdūn Vahman,G. S. Asatrian Pdf

With the second volume of West Iranian Dialect Materials thirteen short-stories in Luri (Baxtiari) dialect from the collection of D. L. Lorimer are published. The stories appear in transcription, and are followed by translation and an extensive glossary. In arranging the glossary, as in volume one, special attention has been attached to the ethymology of the important words. Lorimer's large linguistic records from southern Iran, collected in 1906, 1908 and 1913-14, consist of valuable materials and can be divided into several sections such as ethnographic materials, folk-stories, inter-tribal relations, history of the Baxtiaris, poetry and the like. This volume will be followed by other volumes covering the publication of all of Lorimer's materials in Luri (Baxtiari).

Author : Jared Klein,Brian Joseph,Matthias Fritz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110261288

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Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics by Jared Klein,Brian Joseph,Matthias Fritz Pdf

This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Inscriptions, Iranian
ISBN : UOM:39015047740041

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Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Werner Sundermann,Almut Hintze,François de Blois
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art, Iranian
ISBN : 3447059370

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Exegisti Monumenta by Werner Sundermann,Almut Hintze,François de Blois Pdf

This volume is a collection of forty articles dedicated to one of the most distinguished contemporary iranists, Nicholas Sims-Williams, on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday on 11th April 2009. It includes an essay on Sims-Williams' outstanding contributions to Iranian studies, especially Sogdian and Bactrian, a list of his publications, editions of various texts written in Sogdian, Khotanese, Parthian, Middle Persian, and Avestan and articles on Old Persian, Middle Persian, New Persian, Bactrian, Balochi, Tati, Judeo-Persian, Caucasian, Uighur philology, linguistics and iconography. The book is illustrated by numerous plates. From the table of contents (40 contributions) A.D.H. Bivar, The Rukhkh, Giant Eagle of the Southern Seas F. de Blois, A Sasanian Silver Bowl A. Cantera, On the History of the Middle Persian Nominal Inflection C.G. Cereti, The Pahlavi Signatures on the Quilon Copper Plates (Tabula Quilonensis) J. Cheung, Two Notes on Bactrian I. Colditz, The Parthian "Sermon on happiness" J. Elfenbein, Eastern Hill Balochi H. Falk, The Name of Vema Takhtu P. Gignoux, Les relations interlinguistiques de quelques termes de la pharmacopee antique.