Gesellschaft

Realms of Strangers: Readers, Language, and Trickery in Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī

This is a book about strangeness and strangers in the Maqāmāt of Ḥarīrī, an Arabic compendium of literary fiction from the 6th/12th century, featuring in fifty episodic narratives...

Resafa – Sergiupolis/Rusafat Hisham

Atlas zur Stadtentwicklung und Baugeschichte

Resafa – Sergiupolis, the later Rusafat Hisham, is an exemplary site for an exemplary exploration. On the site of a late Roman limes fort (3rd century), a magnificent pilgrimage...

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...

Etruskische Heiligtümer des 8.–5. Jhs. v. Chr. als Wirtschaftsräume und Konsumptionsorte von Keramik

While many aspects of Etruscan religion are intensively discussed and studied through current conferences, publications and fieldwork, general research and an overview of the...

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...

Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft im archaischen Süditalien

Ein Modell zu Identität und Hexis, ausgehend von Ripacandida und weiteren binnenländischen Gemeinschaften

The necropolis of Ripacandida in southern Italy (Apulia/prov. Foggia) is situated on a hill mediating between the uplands of the southern Apennines to the west and the Adriatic...

Capital continuous

A Study of Vandal Carthage and Central North Africa from an Archaeological Perspective

The Vandal period in North Africa has aroused the interest of historians since long as an intermediate period in late antique North Africa, spanning over much of the fifth and the...

Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey

Supplement and Index

This volume represents a supplement to the first volume, which appeared in 1989, and provided the documentation on which TAVO maps A VIII 14 a-b (Republic of Turkey: Rural Ethnic...

Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey

(Unveränderter Nachdruck)

This detailed handbook contents of a catalogue of ethnic groups, surveys, lists by villages and administrative districts, essays on selected groups by contributing authors, and...

Stadtentwicklung und Migration im Südjemen

Mukalla und die hadhramitische Auslandsgemeinschaft

The study analyses the interrelation between urban development and migration, taking the coastal town of Mukalla (South Yemen) as an example. The study explores the importance of...

Strukturen der Gesellschaft im Mittelalter

Interdisziplinäre Mediävistik in Würzburg

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Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes beleuchten fünf zentrale Lebensbereiche mittelalterlicher Gesellschaft:...

Der Jenaer Maler

Eine Töpferwerkstatt im klassischen Athen