From the time of the Kushan Empire (1st to 3rd centuries C.E.) until the early Islamic period, Bactrian was the principal language of administration in what is now Afghanistan. The surviving Bactrian inscriptions and documents, coins and countermarks, seals and sealings attest a large number of personal names, whose various linguistic origins – Persian, Sogdian, Indian, Hunnic, Turkish, and of course native Bactrian – mirror the variety of peoples and religions which combined to form the unique culture of this region during the 1st millennium C.E. In this comprehensive study, Nicholas Sims-Williams analyzes the etymology, structure and meaning of the names themselves and where possible, identifies the persons who bore them. This volume will be of interest to specialists in onomastics, as well as to linguists and historians concerned with the languages and culture of pre-Islamic Afghanistan and neighbouring regions.
Literary Modernity in the Persophone Realm: A Reader
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Notes on the Present State of the Khanate of Khiva by the Head of the Amu-Darya Department Colonel Nil Lykoshin, 1912
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A Soviet Sultanate
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Voices from the Steppe
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The Syriac Script at Turfan
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По следам дворцовой библиотеки (Po sledam dvorcovoj biblioteki) / Reconstructing a Royal Library
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Ein Bestseller der islamischen Vormoderne
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Iranianate and Syriac Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Period
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Iranische Namen in Nebenüberlieferungen indogermanischer Sprachen
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The "River of Fire" and the "River of Molten Metal"
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Der Linguist Anton Schiefner (1817–1879) und sein Netzwerk – Briefe an Emil Schlagintweit, Leo Reinisch, Franz v. Miklosich, Vatroslav Jagić, K. S. Veselovskij, Eduard Pabst, Vilhelm Thomsen und andere
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Epigraphy in the Architectural Cityscape of Khiva
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Mitteliranische Namen, Band II
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Īsh Murād b. Ādīna Muḥammad ʿAlavī: Jamshīdī ṭavāyifī fatḥī
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Iranische Namen in semitischen Nebenüberlieferungen
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What is beyond the River?
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The Christian Sogdian Gospel Lectionary E5 in Context
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Stilistik der altpersischen Inschriften
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The Life of Muḥammad Sharīf
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Formen höfischer Historiographie im 16. Jahrhundert