Arabic

Von Buddha bis Hafiz – Aufsätze zu Indologie und Iranistik

In the first part of this work are described the religion and art of Buddhism as well as ancient and late medieval weapons. The second part consists of aspects of Iran's material...

Writing as Re-enchantment: The Arabic and Turkish Novel’s Neo-Sufi Response to Secular Modernity

This study examines the revival of Sufism in the Arabic and Turkish novel during the second half of the 20th century. A picture is drawn where Sufism forms a main source of...

Die altsüdarabischen Minuskelinschriften auf Holzstäbchen aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München

Band 2 Die altsabäischen und minäaischen Inschriften. Mit einem Anhang: Unbeschriftete Objekte und Fälschungen

The texts carved in wooden sticks from Ancient Yemen comprise legal and business documents, correspondence by letter as well as records from religious practice and school...

The Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī

Authorship, Texts, and Contexts

Through investigations of manuscripts, this book explores important aspects of the life of Badîʿ al-Zamân al-Hamadhânî’s Maqâmât. The broad concerns of the book are divided into...

Oscillating Bodies

Understanding Tunisian Society through its Novels (1956-2011)

Oscillating Bodies reads together the depiction of human bodies in arabophone and francophone Tunisian novels. This produces an understanding of Tunisian society from the...

Ein leises Geräusch wie ein Gefühl des Sehnens

Dichtung und Zeugenschaft zum faschistischen Konzentrationslager in Libia Coloniale

Arabic poetry about the Italian concentration camps in Libia Coloniale is often understood primarily as a historical source, thereby neglecting the poems' literary merits. A Soft...

Wörterbuch Deutsch - Ägyptisch-Arabisch

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Das etwa 20.000 Stichwörter enthaltende Wörterbuch „Deutsch–Ägyptisch-Arabisch“ wendet sich an diejenigen, die...

Decoding DA’ISH

An Analysis of Poetic Exemplars and Discursive Strategies of Domination in the Jihadist Milieu

Why do Jihadists compose poetry and what role does poetry play in the transmission of the jihadist ideology? Decoding DĀʿISH is located at the intersections of the literary, the...

The Ancient South Arabian Royal Edicts from the Southern Gate of Timna and the Gabal Labah

A new Edition with Philological and Historical Commentary

The kingdom of Qataban flourished in ancient South Arabia during the second half of the first millennium BC. There is an extensive corpus of around two thousand inscriptions...

Die jungen Kosmopoliten

Prozesse von Aneignung und Abgrenzung in der zeitgenössischen türkischen Literatur

Young authors from Turkey question boundaries, they are challenging borders between nations, between humans, between times. Their works reflect a new zeitgeist which is often...

Die Entblößung der Wörter

aš-Šidyāqs literarische Listen als Kultur- und Gesellschaftskritik im 19. Jahrhundert

How do word lists matter for Arabic literature? From the perspective of Literary and Cultural Studies, this monograph approaches the literary word lists of Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq...

Death and Burial in the Near East from Roman to Islamic Times

Research in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt

This book is based on a German-Arab colloquium held in Amman in September 2013, where current excavation and research results on death and burial from Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and...

Lernwortschatz Fußball

Arabisch – Deutsch

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Das Werk bietet erstmals den neuhocharabischen Fußball-Wortschatz umfassend dar, der bisher in Forschung und...

Gestalten durch Verbergen

Ghassan Salhabs melancholischer Blick auf Beirut in Film, Video und Dichtung

This volume is the first comprehensive, across-media study of the work of the Lebanese film auteur Ghassan Salhab. His oeuvre emerges in a conceptual environment shaped by a...

Marokkanisch-Arabisch

Ein Lehrbuch zum Selbststudium und Unterricht

With this text book anyone can learn to speak and understand Moroccan Arabic. No foreknowledge of Arabic is needed, just the motivation to learn the language. The course aims at...

Commitment and Beyond

Reflections on/of the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s

This book is about relations between literature, society and politics in the Arab world. It is an attempt to come to terms with the changing conceptualizations of the political in...

Boote, Burgen, Bischarin

Heinrich Schäfers Tagebuch einer Nubienreise zum zweiten Nilkatarakt im Jahre 1900

In 1900 five German scholars travelled to the region of the second cataract to study pharaonic fortifications and pursue ethnographic research in Nubia. Surplus funds from the...

Grenzgänge

Androgynie – Wahnsinn – Utopie im Romanwerk von Huda Barakat

Hudā Barakāt’s novels are complex and densely woven texts that focus on the obsessions and inner conflicts of their protagonists. The first monograph dealing with the Lebanese...

Lehrgang Arabisch CD zum Lehrbuch

The CD-ROM (5 CD’s) with audio files for texts 1 and 2 as well as with exercises for vocabulary and listening comprehension complement this textbook thus serving as an important...

Lehrgang Arabisch. Standardsprache der Gegenwart

Paket Lehrbuch, Schlüssel und Audio-CD

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Mit den gewaltigen Veränderungen im Nahen Osten und Nordafrika in den letzten Jahren ist das Interesse am...