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The Role of the State in West Asia (Transactions)

I. B. Tauris, 2006

West and Central Asia have for centuries contributed to shaping the identity of Europe by constituting a significant other. This work looks at social, cultural and political areas of heritage and cross-cultural interaction. The region itself may be defined as one that stretches from the Mediterranean to China, and from the Himalayas to Siberia, but this study focuses on Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.

The Virgin and Her Lover: Fragments of an Ancient Greek Novel and a Persian Epic Poem (Brill Studies in ...
Tomas Hagg, Bo Utas

Brill Academic Publishers, 2003

Starting from the authors' discovery that the Persian epic poem V?miq and ?Adhr? by ?Un?ur? (11th century AD) derives from the ancient Greek novel of "M?tiokhos and Parthenop?, the book contains critical editions of the Greek and Persian fragments and testimonia, with English translation and comments. The exciting story of the modern recovery of the two texts is told, and the transformations of the productive theme of "The ardent lover and the ...

Manuscript, Text and Literature: Collected Essays on Middle and New Persian Texts (Beitrage zur Iranistik)
Bo Utas

Reichert Verlag, 2008

This book is a selected collection of the scholarly production on Middle and New Persian literature by professor emeritus Bo Utas, Uppsala University, presented to him on his 70th birthday. Out of 19 articles, 15 are in English and four in French.Of special interest is an article entitled 'Genres in Persian literature 900 -1900." Other articles deal with, among other subjects, the influence of Sufism on Classical Persian poetry, non-religious ...

Evidentials: Turkic, Iranian and Neighbouring Languages (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, Vol 24) ...

Mouton De Gruyter, 2000

This volume deals with the frequently misinterpreted evidential categories - grammaticalized expressions of subjective "experience" - found in the verbal systems of Turkic and Iranian languages, as well as in some of their Slavic, Finno-Ugric, Tungusic, Caucasian and Armenian contact languages.