Handbook of Oriental Studies
The Handbuch der Orientalistik or Handbook of Oriental Studies is an important international book series on oriental studies that has been published by Brill publishing house in Leiden since 1952 . Bertold Spuler (1911–1990) was one of its first publishers. The series is divided into various sections, volumes and sections (The Near and Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Art and Archeology, Central Asia) and in 2007 comprised over 250 volumes. Due to its layout and its long history of editing, the overall layout of the plant is difficult to survey.
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Sect. 1: The Near and Middle East
| Dept., Vol., Sect. | Book title | Author / editor of the volume | year | theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I.1.1 | Egyptian script and language | Hermann Kees | 1959 | Egyptian |
| I.1,2 | literature | Hellmut Brunner | 1952 | Ancient Egyptian literature |
| I.2.1 / 2.1 | The Sumerian | Adam Falkenstein | 1959 | Sumerian |
| I.2.1 / 2.2 | Ancient Minor Asian languages | Johannes Friedrich | 1969 | Asia Minor |
| I.2,3 | History of the ancient Near East | Hartmut Schmökel | 1957 | Middle East |
| I.2,4 | Oriental history from Cyrus to Mohammed | Geo Widengren , Fritz Moritz Heichelheim , Albert Dietrich | 1966 | |
| I.3,1-3 | Semitic studies | Bertold Spuler | 1953-54 | |
| I.4,1-2 | Iranian Studies | Bertold Spuler | 1958 | Iranian Studies |
| I.4,3 | Tocharian | Wolfgang Krause | 1955 | Tocharian |
| I.5.1 | Turkology | Annemarie von Gabain | 1963 | Turkology |
| I.5,2 | Mongolian Studies | Nikolaus Poppe | 1964 | Mongolian Studies |
| I.5,3 | Tungusology | Walter Fuchs | 1968 | Tungusology |
| I.5,5 | History of Central Asia | Karl Jettmar | 1966 | Central Asia |
| I.6.1 | The Chalife period: emergence and collapse of the Islamic world empire | Bertold Spuler | 1952 | |
| I.6,2 | The Mongol period | Bertold Spuler | 1948 | |
| I.Erg.-Bd. 6.1 | Medicine in Islam | Manfred Ullmann | 1970 | |
| I.Erg.-Bd. 7th | A historical chart of the Muslim world | Ibrahim Gomaa | 1972 | (Wall map) |
| I.7 | Armenian and Caucasian languages | Gerhard Deeters | 1963 | |
| I.8,1, serial 2, H.2a, Vol.3 | Zoroastrianism under Macedonian and Roman rule | Mary Boyce , Franz Grenet | 1991 | Zoroastrianism |
| I.8,2 | Religious history of the Orient in the time of the world religions | 1961 | ||
| I.Erg.-Bd. 8th | Ottoman bibliography with a special focus on Turkey in Europe | Hans-Jürgen Kornrumpf | 1973 | Ottoman Empire |
| I. Result 9 | A history of the Druzes | Quays M. Firro | 1992 | Druze |
| I.13.1 | Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 1: Writings of Eastern Sudanic Africa to c. 1900 | JO Hunwick & RS O'Fahey (eds.) | 1993 | |
| I.13,2 | Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 2: Writings of Central Sudanic Africa | JO Hunwick & RS O'Fahey (eds.) | 1995 | |
| I.13,3A | Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 3A: The writings of the Muslim peoples of Northeastern Africa | Rex S. O'Fahey | 2003 | Northeast Africa |
| I.13.4 | Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 4: Writings of Western Sudanic Africa | JO Hunwick | 2003 | |
| I.14,1 / 2 | Pictorial atlas on sports in ancient Egypt. Corpus of figurative sources on physical exercise, play, hunting, dance and related topics | Wolfgang Decker , Michael Herb | 1994 | Sports |
| I.15 | History of the Hittite Religion | Volkert Haas | 1994 | Hittites |
| I.18 | Hamito-Semitic etymological dictionary: materials for a reconstruction | Vladimir E. Orel, Olga V. Stolbova | 1995 | Afro-Asian languages |
| I.20 | La civilization phénicienne et punique: manuel de recherche | Véronique Krings | 1995 | |
| I.21,1 / 2 | Dictionary of North-West Semitic Inscriptions | Jacob Hoftijzer; Karel Jongeling | 1995 | Northwest Semitic Languages |
| I.25.1-4 | Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets | Anson F. Rainey | 1996 | |
| I.26 | The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids | Heinz Halm | 1996 | Mahdi , Fatimids |
| I.28 | A Grammar of the Ugaritic Language | Daniel Sivan | 1997 | |
| I.29 | A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic | Federico Corriente | 1997 | |
| I.30.3 | Corpus inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (CIAP): D-F | Moshe Sharon | 2004 | |
| I.31 | The Kingdom of Kush. Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic civilization | László Török | 1997 | Kingdom of Kush , Meroe |
| I.33,1-3 | Onomasticon of the Hittite Pantheon | Ben HL van Gessel | 1998/1998/2001 | |
| I.34 | History of the Hittite Empire | Horst Klengel | 1999 | Hittites |
| I.38.1-3 | Systematic bibliography of Hittitology | Vladimír Souček | 1996 | |
| I.39 | Handbook of Ugaritic Studies | Wilfred GE Watson | 1999 | |
| I.42 | The Old Syriac inscriptions of Edessa and Osrhoene. Texts, translations and commentary | Han JW Drijvers , John F. Healey | 1999 | Old Syriac , Edessa , Osrhoene |
| I.44 | Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia | Hermann Hunger, David Pingree | 1999 | |
| I.48.1-3 | Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian. | Gábor Takács | 1999/2001/2008 | Ancient Egyptian , Phonology |
| I. 50 1/2 | A Dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic | Avraham Tal | 2000 | Samaritan Aramaic |
| I.51.1 / 2 | Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia 1: Glossary / 2: Ethnographic Texts | Clive Holes | 2001/2005 | |
| I.54 | A Phoenician-Punic grammar | Charles R. Krahmalkov | 2001 | Phoenician-Punic language |
| I.57,5.2 | The Judaism of Qumran: a systemic reading of the Dead Sea scrolls; Vol. 2. World view, comparing Judaisms | Alan J. Avery-Peck | 2001 | Qumran , Dead Sea Scrolls |
| I.58 | The Arabic manuscript tradition: a glossary of technical terms and bibliography | Adam Gacek | 2001 | |
| I.60 | Narrative illustration in Persian lithographed books | Ulrich Marzolph | 2001 | |
| I.61 | A comparative lexical study of Qurʾānic Arabic | Martin R. Zammit | 2002 | Koran |
| I.62 | Christian architecture in Egypt | Peter Grossmann | 2002 | Christian architecture |
| I.63 | Classical Arabic philology and poetry: a bibliographical handbook of important editions from 1960 to 2000 | Reinhard Weipert | 2002 | |
| I.64 | A history of the animal world in the ancient Near East | Billie Jean Collins | 2002 | |
| I.66 | Studies in the Aramaic legal papyri from Elephantine | Yochanan Muffs | 2003 | Elephantine papyri |
| I.67.1 / 2 | A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition | Gregorio del Olmo Lete , Joaquín Sanmartín | 2003 | Ugaritic |
| I.68 | The Luwians | H. Craig Melchert | 2003 | Luwier |
| I.69 | The ocean of the soul: man, the world and God in the stories of Farīd al-Dīn A̓ṭṭār | Hellmut Ritter | 2003 | The sea of the soul , Fariduddin Attar |
| I.70 | A comparative glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic: (Arabic - English); with an introductory essay | Alexander Borg | 2004 | Cypriot Arabic , Kormakiti , Maronites |
| I.71 | Sumerian Grammar | Dietz Otto Edzard | 2003 | Sumerian language |
| I.74 | Hattic vocabulary in Hittite text tradition | Oğuz Soysal | 2004 | Hattisch |
| I.75 | Iraq: a bibliographical guide | C. Heather Bleaney , Geoffrey J. Roper | 2004 | Iraq |
| I.78 | Arabic Dialect Geography: An Introduction | Peter Behnstedt ; Manfred Woidich | 2005 | |
| I.79 | The law of agriculture in the Mishnah and the Tosefta: translation, commentary, theology | Jacob Neusner | 2005 | Mišnā ; Zeraʿīm , Tosefta |
| I.80 | General maps of Persia: 1477-1925 | Cyrus Alai | 2005 | |
| I.81 | Nomadic societies in the Middle East and North Africa: entering the 21st century | Dawn Chatty | 2006 | |
| I.82 | Enigmatic charms: medieval Arabic block printed amulets in American and European libraries and museums | Karl R. Schaefer | 2006 | |
| I.83 | Ancient Egyptian Chronology | Erik Hornung , Rolf Krauss , David A. Warburton | 2006 | Dating methods, absolute chronology |
| I.86 | The Carian Language | Ignacio J. Adiego | 2007 | Carian language |
| I.88 | Historical Muscat: an illustrated guide and gazetteer | John Everett Peterson | 2007 | Muscat |
| I.89 | Bibliography of Islamic philosophy | Hans Daiber | 2007 | Islamic philosophy |
| I.92 | Classic Ships of Islam - From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean | Dionisius A. Agius | 2008 | Maritime History |
| I.93 | Divine Epithets in the Ugaritic Alphabetic Texts | Aicha Rahmouni | 2008 | |
| I.97 | Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects | Federico Corriente | 2008 | |
| I.101 | A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai | Rudolf Erik de Jong | 2011 | |
| I.102 | A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Andalusi Arabic | Maria Isabel Fierro | 2013 | |
| I.103 | Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker | Camilla Adang | 2013 | Islamic philosophy |
| I.111 | A Cultural History of Aramaic: From the Beginnings to the Advent of Islam | Holger Gzella | 2014 | |
| I.127 | Philosophy in Qajar Iran | Reza Pourjavady | 2018 |
Sect. 2: India
| Dept., Vol., Sect. | Book title | Author / editor of the volume | year | theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| II.1.1 | Old Indian | Jan Gonda | 1971 | Old Indian |
| II.3.1 | History of Indian law: (Dharmaśāstra) | J. Duncan M. Derrett | 1973 | Dharmaśāstra |
| II.3,2 | The state in Indian tradition | Hartmut Scharfe | 1989 | |
| II. Result 3 | Religious beliefs and practices of North India during the early Mediaeval period | Vibhuti Bhushan Mishra | 1973 | |
| II.4,3 | Islam in the Indian subcontinent | Annemarie Schimmel | 1980 | India |
| II.9 | Lexicon of Tamil literature | Kamil V. Zvelebil | 1995 | Tamil |
| II.10 | Languages of the Himalayas | George van Driem | 2001 | Himalaya Languages |
| II.11 | Sarvāstivāda Buddhist scholasticism | Charles Willemen , Bart Dessein , Collett Cox | 1998 | Sarvastivada |
| II.12 | The Sanskrit epics | John Brockington | 1998 | Mahabharata , Ramayana |
| II.14 | An annotated bibliography of the Alaṃkāraśāstra | Timothy C. Cahill | 2001 | Alamkarasastra |
| II.16 | Education in ancient India | Hartmut Scharfe | 2002 | Education |
| II.17 | The Buddhist architecture of Gandhāra | Kurt Allen Behrendt | 2004 | Gandhara |
| II.18.1 | The end of the Golden Age | Walter M. Spink | 2005 | Ajanta |
| II.18.2 | Arguments about Ajanta | Walter M. Spink | 2006 | Ajanta |
| II.18.5 | Cave by cave | Walter M. Spink | 2007 | Ajanta |
| II.19 | Greater Magadha | Johannes Bronkhorst | 2007 | Magadha |
| II.20 | Indian Islamic Architecture | John Burton-Page †. Edited by George Michell | 2007 | Islamic architecture |
Sect. 3: South-East Asia
| Dept., Vol. | Book title | Author / editor of the volume | year | theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| III.2, section 2 | The old Indonesian religions | Waldemar Stöhr | 1976 | |
| III.6 | Music | Mantle Hood , José Maceda | 1972 | |
| III.8 | Historical atlas of South-East Asia | Jan M. Pluvier | 1995 | |
| III.11 | The folk-tales of Burma: an introduction | Gerry Abbott , Khin Thant Han | 2000 | |
| III.12 | Cambodian architecture: eighth to thirteenth centuries | Jacques Dumarçay , Pascal Royère | 2001 | |
| III.13 | The Malay Peninsula: crossroads of the maritime silk road (100 BC - 1300 AD) | Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h | 2002 | |
| III.14 | The art and architecture of Thailand: from prehistoric times through the thirteenth century | Hiram Woodward | 2003 | |
| III.15 | Construction techniques in South and Southeast Asia: a history | Jacques Dumarçay | 2005 | |
| III.16 | Southeast Asian warfare, 1300-1900 | Michael W. Charney | 2004 | |
| III.17 | Old Muslim calendars of Southeast Asia | Ian Proudfoot | 2006 | |
| III.18 | Social dynamics in the highlands of Southeast Asia: reconsidering "Political systems of Highland Burma" by ER Leach | François Robinne | 2007 |
Sect. 4: China
| Dept., Vol., Sect. | Book title | Author / editor of the volume | year | theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IV.2.1 | Chinese poetry: history, structure, theory | Günther Debon | 1989 | |
| IV.4.1 | The ancient Chinese religion and state cults | Werner Eichhorn | 1976 | |
| IV.6 | Chinese legal history | Oskar Weggel | 1980 | |
| IV.10 | China bibliography: a research guide to reference works about China past and present | Harriet T. Zurndorfer | 1995 | |
| IV.11 | Chinese popular prints | John Lust | 1996 | |
| IV.12.1 | Early Buddhist art of China and Central Asia. Vol. 1: Later Han, three kingdoms and Western Chin in China and Bactria to Shan-shan in Central Asia | Marylin M. Rhie | 2007 | Later Han Dynasty , Three Kingdoms , Western Jin Dynasty , Bactria , Shanshan |
| IV.13 | Education in traditional China. A history | Thomas HC Lee | 2000 | |
| IV.14 | Daoism handbook | Livia Kohn | 2000 | Daoism |
| IV.15.1 | Handbook of Christianity in China: 635–1800 | Nicolas Standaert | 2001 | |
| IV.16 | A biographical dictionary of the Qin, former Han and Xin periods: (221 BC - AD 24) | Michael Loewe | 2000 | Qin Dynasty , Earlier Han Dynasty , Xin Dynasty |
| IV.17 | The men who governed Han China: companion to "A biographical dictionary of the Qin, former Han and Xin periods" | Michael Loewe | 2004 | Qin Dynasty , Earlier Han Dynasty , Xin Dynasty |
| IV.18 | Diplomacy and trade in the Chinese world: 589-1276 | Hans Bielenstein | 2005 | |
| IV.19 | A biographical dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23–220 AD) | Rafe de Crespigny | 2007 | Later Han Dynasty , Three Kingdoms |
Sect. 5: Japan
| Dept., Vol. | Book title | Author / editor of the volume | year | theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| V.1,2 | Language and writing of Japan | Bruno Lewin | 1989 | |
| V.2.1 | The Japanese theater: from shamanistic ritual to contemporary pluralism | Benito Ortolani | 1990 | Japanese theater |
| V.3,3 | Economic and technical history of Japan | Klaus Müller | 1988 | |
| V.3,5 | Medical history of Japan | Erhard Rosner | 1989 | |
| V.4 | The Native Religion of Japan (In Two Parts) | Nelly Naumann | 1988/1994 | |
| V.5 | Japanese philosophy after 1868 | Junko Hamada | 1994 | |
| V.7 | The book in Japan: a cultural history from the beginnings to the nineteenth century | Peter Kornicki | 1998 | |
| V.8 | Shinto and the conception of the Japanese national system (kokutai): The religious traditionalism in modern times and modern Japan | Klaus Antoni | 1998 | |
| V.9 | Modern Japanese society | Josef Kreiner | 2004 | |
| V.10 | Handbook of Christianity in Japan | Mark R. Mullins | 2003 | |
| V.11 | Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in environmental perspective | Conrad Totman | 2004 | |
| V.12 | History of law in Japan since 1868 | Wilhelm Röhl | 2005 | |
| V.13 | A history of nationalism in modern Japan: placing the people | Kevin M. Doak | 2007 |
Sect. 7: Art and Archeology
| Dept., Vol. | Book title | Author / editor of the volume | year | theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VII.1,2, B, 1 | Wheeled Vehicles and Ridden Animals in the Ancient Near East | MA Littauer / J. Crouwel | 1979 | |
| VII.1,2, B, 7 | Near Eastern jewelry from the beginnings to the time of the Achaemenids (approx. 10000–330 BC) | Brigitte Musche | 1992 | Achaemenids |
| VII.1,2, B, 5 | Near Eastern jewelry at the time of the Arsacids and the Sasanids | Brigitte Musche | 1988 | Arsacids , Sasanids |
| VII.3.1 | Archeology in Soviet Central Asia | Grégoire Frumkin | 1970 | |
| VII.3,2 | Archeology and Art History of Sino-Central Asia (Xinjiang) | Marianne Yaldız | 1987 |
Sect. 8: Central Asia
| Dept., Vol. | Book title | Author / editor of the volume | year | theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VIII.1 | The Uralic languages: description, history and foreign influences | Denis Sinor | 1988 | Ural languages |
| VIII.2 | The art of the Scythians: the interpenetration of cultures at the edge of the Hellenic world | Esther Jacobson | 1995 | Scythians |
| VIII.3 | A grammar of old Turkic | Marcel Erdal | 2004 | Old Turkish language |
| VIII.4 | The king's dictionary: the Rasûlid Hexaglot: fourteenth century vocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian, and Mongol | Peter B. Golden | 2000 | Rasulids |
| VIII.5 | Sources on the Alans: a critical compilation | Agustí Alemany | 2000 | Alans |
| VIII.6 | Warfare in Inner Asian history (500–1800) | Nicola Di Cosmo | 2002 | |
| VIII.7 | Manchu grammar | Liliya M. Gorelova | 2002 | Manchurian language |
| VIII.8.1 | Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages [AK] | Sergei A. Starostin | 2003 | Altaic languages |
| VIII.8.2 | Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages [LZ] | Sergei A. Starostin | 2003 | |
| VIII.8.3 | Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages [Indices] | Sergei A. Starostin | 2003 | |
| VIII.9 | An historical atlas of Central Asia | Yuri Bregel | 2003 | Central Asia |
| VIII.10 | Sogdian traders: a history | Étienne de La Vaissière | 2005 | Sogdier |
| VIII.11 | A Tajik Persian reference grammar | John R. Perry | 2005 | Tajik , Persian |
| VIII.12 | Old Georgian-German dictionary | Zurab Sardzhveladze | 2005 | Old Georgian language |
| VIII.13 | Afghanistan: a bibliography | Heather Bleaney | 2006 | Afghanistan |
| VIII.14 | Art and archeology of Afghanistan: its fall and survival; a multi-disciplinary approach | Juliette van Krieken-Pieters | 2006 | Afghanistan |
| VIII.15 | A historical-etymological dictionary of pre-Russian habitation names of the Crimea | Henryk Jankowski (Turkologist) Henryk Jankowski | 2006 | Crimea |
| VIII.16 | The spread of Buddhism | Ann Heirman , Stephen Peter Bumbacher | 2007 | Buddhism |
| VIII.17 | The world of the Khazars: new perspectives: selected papers from the Jerusalem 1999 International Khazar Colloquium hosted by the Ben Zvi Institute | Peter B. Golden, Denis Sinor | 2007 | Khazars |
| VIII.18 | Kartwelisches etymological dictionary | Heinz Ensign | 2007 | South Caucasian languages |
| VIII.19 | The Kitan language and script | Daniel Kane | 2009 | Kitan |
| VIII.20 | Introduction to Altaic Philology: Turkic, Mongolian, Manchu | Igor de Rachewiltz, Volker Rybatzki | 2010 | Altaic languages |
| VIII.21 | History of Georgia | Heinz Ensign | 2010 | History of Georgia |
| VIII.22 | The Georgian language | Heinz Ensign | 2012 | Georgian language |
| VIII.23.1 | Armenian philology in the modern era: from manuscript to digital text | Valentina Calzolari | 2014 |