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Bukharan Jews in the 20th Century
History, Experience and Narration
Although the Jews of Central Asia have a long, eventful and fascinating history, the community of the Bukharan Jews attracted very little attention from researchers until...
Pali and Vernacular Literature Transmitted in Central and Northern Siam
„Pali and Vernacular Literature Transmitted in Central and Northern Siam“ is a preliminary survey of the pre-modern literature of Central and Northern Siam. Based on old records,...
Manuscript, Text and Literature
Collected Essays on Middle and New Persian Texts
This book is a selected collection of the scholarly production on Middle and New Persian literature by professor emeritus Bo Utas, Uppsala University, presented to him on his 70th...
Catalogue des manuscrits de la fondation Georges et Mathilde Salem (Alep, Syrie)
The library of the George & Mathilde Salem Foundation (Aleppo, Syria) is one of the most important private collections of manuscripts in the Syrian Arab Republic. It contains 547...
Der imaginierte Nomade
Formel und Realitätsbezug bei antiken, mittelalterlichen und arabischen Autoren
When a pre-modern author writes about nomads, his writing is immediately suspected of being soaked with literary formulae. This suspicion, which is no doubt justified, is for the...
Lateinisches Lesebuch
Latin is still a crucial language for all scholars of diachronic or synchronic linguistics. But more and more students have to learn Latin in a crowded crash-course at the...
Hof – Universität – Laien
Literatur- und sprachgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zum deutschen Schrifttum der Wiener Schule des Spätmittelalters
This study shows the late-medieval Vienna School as a whole for the first time. Whereas scholars until recently have focussed upon German theological writings of the Viennese...
Thüring von Ringoltingen. Melusine (1456)
Nach dem Erstdruck Basel: Richel um 1473/74
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Am 29. Januar 1456 schließt der Berner Patrizier Thüring von Ringoltingen die Prosabearbeitung der „Melusine“...
Poetry’s Voice – Society’s Norms
Forms of Interaction between Middle Eastern Writers and their Societies
Literary works are much more than mere illustrations of societal conditions. Literature is the setting in which society discusses itself. In this volume, international scholars of...
Das Kometenjahr 1618
Antikes und zeitgenössisches Wissen in der frühneuzeitlichen Kometenliteratur des deutschsprachigen Raumes
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Seit dem Altertum erfahren Kometen eine vielfältige Rezeption, die teilweise von starken Traditionslinien...
Die Figur des Beduinen in der arabischen Literatur
9. bis 12. Jahrhundert
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Im Zentrum der Studie steht die Beduinenfigur, die im Kontext nomadisch-sesshafter Beziehungen untersucht wird....
Reflections on Reflections
Near Eastern Writers Reading Literature
This volume assembles the papers read at a symposium on the diverse forms of literature reception and intertextuality in Middle Eastern literatures in general and Arabic...
Erzählte Tradition
Historische und literarische Figuren im Werk von Zakariya Tamir. Eine narratologische Analyse
Zakariyyā Tāmir (b. 1931) is generally considered to be one of the most innovative authors in contemporary Arabic literature. One characteristic of his short stories is how they...
Die Überlieferung der »Christherre-Chronik«
The hitherto unedited ‚Christherre-Chronik‛ by an anonymous author from the middle of the thirteenth century is a key text in the Middle High German tradition of world chronicles...
Die illustrierten Homilien des Johannes Chrysostomos in Byzanz
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Das Werk ist die erste systematische Studie der illustrierten Homilien des wohl bedeutendsten byzantinischen...
Martyrdom in Literature
Visions of Death and Meaningful Suffering in Europe and the Middle East from Antiquity to Modernity
This book aims to achieve a deeper understanding of the very human phenomenon of martyrdom by analysing in detail its highly varied re-enactments in European and Middle Eastern...
Writers and Rulers
Perspectives on Their Relationship from Abbasid to Safavid Times
Nine essays explore the ways in which individual Arabic and Persian authors between the 9th and 17th centuries (with examples drawn from the Abbasid to the Safavid dynasties)...
Crisis and Memory
The Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative
This volume explores the literary representation of social and political crises that have punctuated the second half of the 20th century in the Middle East. From the creation of...
Religious themes and texts of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia
Studies in honour of Professor Gherardo Gnoli on the occasion of his 65th birthday on 6th December 2002
The volume contains forty-one papers dedicated to the distinguished Iranianist by colleagues, friends and former students, and a complete bibliography of the dedicatee. The papers...
Die Literaturen der Völker Kaukasiens
Neue Übersetzungen und deutschsprachige Bibliographie
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Die Literaturen der Völker des Kaukasus (Kaukasiens) sind in Europa weitgehend unbekannt. Mit dem vorliegenden...