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Bargrīzān

Triptychon: Unter dem Rauch

Drei Sonette über die Dächer der Seelenschmiede, die wir Stadt nennen.

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Bargrīzān

Heimatlektüre

Gedanken über Fremdsein und Rastlosigkeit.

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Editorial

A look back and ahead

A few editorial musings about the past and future of the Digital Toolbox for Iranian Studies, upcoming changes and plans.

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Review

“Vacation in Yemen, drunk in Kabul, veterans before refugees”—just generic journals?

How Amazon capitalizes on problematic notebooks, an epiphenomenon of the digital commodification of ‘the East’, with xenophobic and war-glorifying items not far around the corner.

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Review

On the Book of Eternity: Orkhan Mir-Kasimov’s „Words of Power“

A review of „Words of Power. Ḥurūfī teachings between Shiʿism and Sufism in medieval Islam. The original doctrine of Faḍl Allāh Astarābādī“.

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Review

Vom Buch der Ewigkeit: Orkhan Mir-Kasimovs “Words of Power”

Eine Rezension zu “Words of Power. Ḥurūfī teachings between Shiʿism and Sufism in medieval Islam. The original doctrine of Faḍl Allāh Astarābādī”.

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Editorial

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