Raham Asha
Lessons in AvestaAvesta : A condensed course
Dushanbe, Academy of Sciences, April – May 2018 The purpose of the course was to teach the elements of the Avesta Grammar (especially nominal and verbal morphologies) and make the students familiar with a number of phrases (taken from the Corpus). There were also one course about the history of Avestan studies and one course on the Corpus of the Avesta (this latter was held at the institute of Oriental Languages). |
Avesta. A Grammatical Précis
Academy of Sciences, Dushanbe, Tajikistan 2019 The present book was compiled during my stay in Dushanbe last year (2018). It grew out of the needs of class-room work, first and foremost with students of old languages in the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Dushanbe. It partly meets our demand for further teaching tools to assist the student of Avesta; it is also compiled with the needs of the student of Linguistics in mind, and for this reason etymological notes are offered. |
Lessons in Sogdian

Marriage Contracts
Pārsīg (“Pahlavi”), Sogdian and Bactrian documents
Academy of Sciences, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
2020
The aim here is to provide a collection of documents relating to marriage in ancient times as preserved to us in Aryan languages ˗Bactrian, Sogdian and Pārsīg (“Pahlavi”). As it is compiled with the needs of the students of the Faculty of Philology in Samarkand and those involved with linguistics at the Academy of Sciences in Dushanbe, it provides abundant etymological and explanatory notes, adapted to the needs and knowledge of the student who has already had his first training in Aryan languages.
Pārsīg (“Pahlavi”), Sogdian and Bactrian documents
Academy of Sciences, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
2020
The aim here is to provide a collection of documents relating to marriage in ancient times as preserved to us in Aryan languages ˗Bactrian, Sogdian and Pārsīg (“Pahlavi”). As it is compiled with the needs of the students of the Faculty of Philology in Samarkand and those involved with linguistics at the Academy of Sciences in Dushanbe, it provides abundant etymological and explanatory notes, adapted to the needs and knowledge of the student who has already had his first training in Aryan languages.
Perso-Aryan Physicians and their Medical Doctrine
in preparation
in preparation
A Compendious Sogdian Dictionary
forthcoming
forthcoming