Literature

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...

L’auteur dans ses livres: autorité et matérialité dans les littératures romanes du Moyen Âge

What does the term author mean in the Romance literatures of the Middle Ages? What is its role in structuring the collection of texts attributed to it? Do the medieval written...

Neue Gesetze für ein besseres Leben?

Überlegungen zu Praktiken und Theorien der Gesetzgebung im Mittelalter

The book deals with the practices and authorisations of legislation in the Middle Ages. Laws laid down norms, but they were also subject to norms. These were not only based on...

Paradigmen und Perspektiven einer Mediävistischen Komparatistik

Freiburger Colloquium 2021

The publication presents the results of the interdisciplinary Freiburg Colloquium 2021 (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) "Paradigms and Perspectives of Comparative Medieval...

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...

„Mio corpo venga sepolto in terra sancta“ - Genese und Verbreitung eines Wunderberichts des 13. Jahrhunderts

Die Blutacker in Jerusalem, der Heilige Acker in Akkon und der Camposanto zu Pisa

The book is about the emergence and spread of the miracle report about a supernaturally rapid decomposition of corpses at specific burial sites, so-called holy fields (Campus...

Mystique, langage, image : montrer l’invisible Mystik, Sprache, Bild: Die Visualisierung des Unsichtbaren

The experience of transcendence, especially when it concerns the direct encounter with God, exceeds every human possibility of expression. Only pictorial expression is able to...

The manuscript transmission of Platos laws (books I and V)

The study is dedicated to a detailed evaluation of the existing manuscript evidence of Plato's Nomoi as well as to the explanation of the textual tradition of this work. 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...

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...

Das dynamische Sein bei Nicolaus Cusanus

Ein Beitrag zur Begriffsgeschichte der dynamischen Ontologie

Esse est movere - to be is to move. Contrary to our static notions of medieval philosophy, Nicolaus Cusanus in the 15th century sketches a dynamic view of the world in which...

Palestinian Theatre

The book outlines the development of Palestinian theatre from the first theatrical attempts before 1948, to the heavy blow, which these attempts suffered as a result of the Nakba,...