More-Ali Newid

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Mehr-Ali Newid (born December 15, 1950 in Kabul , Afghanistan ) is a German-Afghan Iranist .

Life

Newid was born the third child of a farmer in Afghanistan. He has three siblings. From 1958 to 1961 Newid attended elementary school in Sari-Kang in the province of Sistan , before moving to the Abodawod Lyceum in Nimroz in 1961. He graduated from school in 1970 and began studying oriental and literary studies at the University of Kabul .

In 1971 Newid received a scholarship to study at the University of Thessaloniki , where, after taking a language course in 1972, he began studying archeology , philology , Byzantine studies and art history . In 1977 he successfully completed his studies with a diploma in archeology and philology. Newid then went to Germany to take up a major in Indology and Iranian Studies and a minor in Archeology at the University of Munich after learning the language . Newid in 1986. Indian studies at specialist Dieter Schlingloff with a dissertation to arms of India under Dieter Schlingloff doctorate .

After completing his studies, he completed a traineeship at the State Museum of Ethnology and the State Collection of Antiquities in Munich.

Newid was one of the organizers of the XXV. German Orientalist Day 1991 at the University of Munich and director of the exhibition Art of Buddhism along the Silk Road (1990–91). After Newid had worked as a research assistant at the University of Munich at the Institute for Indology and Iranian Studies from 1992, he took on a teaching position for Persian language and literature at the Faculty of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural Studies and Classical Studies in 2000.

Newid was u. a. lexicographical project manager at Linguatec in Munich and also works as a literary translator.

Since 2000 Newid has been a member and since 2008 Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Society of Friends of Islamic Art and Culture, which was founded in 1989 at the State Museum for Ethnology in Munich.

Publications (selection)

  • Arms and armor in ancient India. Represented based on sources in literature, art and archeology . Dissertation . Gräbner, Altendorf near Bamberg 1986.
  • Aromata in Iranian culture - with special reference to Persian poetry. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2010.
  • with Peter-Arnold Mumm: Persian Reader. Fārsī, Darī, Toǰikī. Original texts from ten centuries with commentary and glossary. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-89500-575-6 .
  • Shiite Islam in pictures. Rituals and saints. Edition Avicenna, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-9809384-7-6 .
    • Review: Sebastian Soms, in: Orient. IV / 2007, pp. 80-83.
  • Defense weapons from the Indopakistani subcontinent in the collections of the State Museum of Ethnology in Munich. In: Munich contributions to ethnology. Volume 5. State Museum for Ethnology Munich and Institute for Ethnology and African Studies of the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich (ed.) 1998, pp. 147–159.
  • Fascination Tibet. Pinguin-Verlag, Innsbruck 1998, ISBN 3-7016-2520-4 .
  • Swords and daggers. Indo-Islamic edged weapons from the late Mughal period. In: JW Frembgen (Hrsg.): Rosenduft und Säbelglanz. Islamic art and culture of the Mughal period. State Museum for Ethnology, Munich 1996, pp. 145–165.
  • with BJ Richtsfeld u. a .: Art of Buddhism along the Silk Road. Munich 1992, ISBN 3-928432-12-5 .
  • Medusa mask. In: W. Engelmann, BJ Richtsfeld (Ed.): Metamorphoses. Works by Werner Engelmann and ethnographic objects. State Museum for Ethnology, Munich 1989, pp. 172–174.
  • A qibla indicator from Iran. A contribution to the Islamic prayer system and the topography of the Islamic Orient. In: Yearbook of the State Museum for Ethnology, Munich. 2, 1989, pp. 43-50.
  • śataghī and paiśa . Two old Indian weapons. In: Maurizio Taddei, P. Calliere (Eds.): South Asian Archeology. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference of the Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe. held in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. Volume 2, Rome 1990, pp. 627-641.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Faculty's website ; (Accessed March 15, 2010)
  2. ^ Website of the company , accessed: March 14, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Newid, More-Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabul , Afghanistan