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»Gott liebt das Handwerk«: Moral, Identität und religiöse Legitimierung in der mittelasiatischen Handwerks-risala
by Jeanine Elif Dagyeli
English summary: The present book is the first large-scale research on the Central Asian crafts' risala, a pre-Soviet code of conduct, and describes the craft's spiritual and social roots by drawing on oral and written sources.
German description: Das mittelasiatische Sendschreiben über den Beruf, risala-yi kasb, stellt eine Textgattung eigener Art dar, die bislang nur marginal von der Forschung beachtet wurde. In ihr ...
Hardback. Price US$168.00
Literarische Stoffe und ihre Gestaltung in mitteliranischer Zeit: Kolloquium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Werner Sundermann
edited by Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Christiane Reck, and Dieter Weber
This volume contains 21 contributions to a colloquium held in March 2006 in honour of W. Sundermann and dealing with various aspects of the literatures in the Middle Iranian languages. Texts and motifs and their origins and developments in Middle Persian, Parthian, Saka and Sogdian texts and in the unique Manichaean Bactrian fragment are discussed and presented together with a depiction of Avestan, Aramaic, Mandaic and even Celtic motifs. German, ...
Hardback. Price US$135.00
Iran and Iranian Studies: Essays in Honor of Iraj Afshar
edited by Kambiz Eslami
357p (Zagros 1998)
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$79.00, Our Price US$12.98
The 2003 Excavations at Tol-e Basi, Iran: Social Life in a Neolithic Village
edited by Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck, and Kamyar Abdi
Foreword by the Series Editor; Preface: The genesis of the Fars Archaeology
Project, by Kamyar Abdi; Goals of the excavations, by Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck, and Kamyar Abd; Notes on the physical and human geography of the Eastern Ramjerd Plain, by Saman Heydari and Reinhard Bernbeck; Surface survey at Tol-e Bai, by Reinhard Bernbeck; Excavation and site stratigraphy, by Susan Pollock; The Neolithic pottery, by Reinhard Bernbeck; Bakun ...
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The Origins of State Organizations in Prehistoridc Highland Fars, Southern Iran: Excavations at Tall-e Bakun A
by Abbas Ailzadeh
The late prehistoric Bakun A culture in Fars is a major source of information on the initial development of the evolutionary path which vertical mobile pastoralists of highland Iran may have taken to develop state organisations. Long before the appearance of administrative technology and physical segregation of administration, production, storage, and residential units in urban centers of the second half of the fourth millennium BC, Tall-e Bakun ...
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Ancient Iran from the Air
by David Stronach and Ali Mousavi
This book features many of the more exceptional landscapes and monuments of Iran as seen through the lens of the world's foremost aerial photographer, George Gerster. The photographs, which were taken between 1976 and 1978, are presented in six chapters, each authored by one or more scholars of international repute, and the work as a whole is edited by two of the main contributors, David Stronach and Ali Mousavi. Ancient Iran from the Air ...
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Iranische Moderne in der Bildenden Kunst: Der Bildhauer und Maler Pawitz Tahavoli. Werk und Bedeutung
by Gisela Fock
Parviz Tanavoli had his first solo exhibition of modern art in 1958. At the time he was only 21 years old. Startling for the audience, he had formed assemblages out of scrap metal and semi-abstract ceramics showing themes from normal daily life. At that time, in Iran's capital, nothing like this had ever been considered art. But any initial disapproval was soon gone completely: by the beginning of the 1970s, Tanavoli had become one of the most ...
Paperback. Price US$67.00
Bindenschild und Sonnenlöwe: Die Geschichte der österreichisch-iranischen Beziehungen bis zur Gegenwart. Neuauflage
by Helmut Slaby
410p (Austrian Academy of Sciences 2010)
Paperback. Price US$77.00
Iranische Personennamen in der neu- und spätbabylonischen Neberüberlieferung
by Ran Zadok
This fascicle contains 656 entries, namely 656 individuals with 458 names. The very detailed Introduction has 20 pages and the exhaustive indexes cover 30 pages. The chronological framework is from c. 650 to 5 B.C. The material is predominantly Achaemenid, when Babylonia was under Persian rule. The bearers of the names were not only Persians, but also Medes, Scythians, Elamites etc.
German text. 371p (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press ...
Paperback. Price US$92.00
Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band VII. Faszikel 1A: Iranische Personennamen in der neuassyrischen Nebenüberlieferung
by Rüdiger Schmitt
This volume of the Iranisches Personennamenbuch (Lexicon of Iranian personal names) presents a full collection and detailed interpretation of those anthroponyms attested in 9th 7th c. Neo-Assyrian texts (annals, reports on military campaigns, oracle inquiries, letters etc.), which certainly or quite probably are of Iranian origin; it takes into account those names, too, which are reminiscent of Iranian names and previously were explained ...
Paperback. Price US$46.00
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