Neuere Geschichte

Inschriften als Zeugnisse kulturellen Gedächtnisses

40 Jahre Deutsche Inschriften in Göttingen. Beiträge zum Jubiläumskolloquium vom 22. Oktober 2010 in Göttingen

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Unter diesem Motto wurde mit einem Kolloquium zum Thema „Inschriften als Zeugnisse kulturellen Gedächtnisses“ an...

Vorgestellte Öffentlichkeit

Zur Genese moderner Prosa in Ägypten (1860 bis 1908)

This socio-literary study examines the relationship between processes of modernisation and reform, and new literary genres produced in Egypt of the second half of the 19th...

Islam, State, and Society in Independent Azerbaijan

Between Historical Legacy and Post-Soviet Reality - with special reference to Baku and its environs

The dissolution of the Soviet Union and the appearance of new independent states in its place resulted in dramatic changes in geopolitics. Azerbaijan emerged as one of the new...

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...

Die »nakba« erinnern

Palästinensische Narrative des ersten arabisch-israelischen Kriegs 1948

For Palestinians, the term nakba (catastrophe) subsumes the events within the context of the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, immediately after the foundation of the state of...

Qamishly, Plumes et Ténèbres

Lectures de quatre œuvres en prose de Salim Barakat

This study explores the early prose work of the Syrian-Kurdish novelist and poet Salim Barakat (b. 1951). Containing elements of both the realistic and fantastic, his narrative...

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...

Nizamis Schatzkammer der Geheimnisse

Eine Untersuchung zu Mahzan ul-asrar

This study of Niẓāmī’s (d. 1209) Makhzan ul-asrār (Treasure of Mysteries) deals with problems of the work’s history and reception, analyzing the formal setting of the poem as well...

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...

Crossings and Passages in Genre and Culture

Crossings and Passages in Genre and Culture scrutinizes the fascinating and diverse wanderings forms of artistic expression, in particular literature, have taken through different...

Dulce bellum inexpertis

Bilder des Krieges in der deutschen Literatur des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts

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Das Buch entwirft in elf Kapiteln ein Panorama der literarisch vermittelten Kriegsbilder im 15. und 16....

Iranische Geistlichkeit zwischen Utopie und Realismus

Zum Diskurs über Herrschafts- und Staatsdenken im 20. Jahrhundert

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Ist die religiöse Vernunft in der Lage, der Herausforderung gerecht zu werden, die die Moderne für den Islam...

Der »ritterschaft in eren«

Das Bild des Krieges in den historiographischen Schriften niederadliger Autoren des 15. und frühen 16. Jahrhunderts

In the 15th and early 16th century, members of the German lower nobility used to describe war as main and privileged field of activity for men of noble rank. However, considering...

Geschichten über Geschichten

Erinnerung im Romanwerk von Ilyas Huri

Elias Khoury (b. 1948) is one of the most outstanding figures in Lebanon’s cultural, intellectual and literary life today. The study focuses on the theme of memory in Khoury’s...

Öl und Wein am Kaukasus

Deutsche Forschungsreisende, Kolonisten und Unternehmer im vorrevolutionären Aserbaidschan

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Südkaukasien – unter diesem Begriff werden hier die drei Republiken Armenien, Aserbaidschan und Georgien als...

Hayoths Dzor – Xavasor

Ethnische, ökonomische und kulturelle Transformation eines ländlichen Siedlungsgebietes in der östlichen Türkei seit dem 19. Jahrhundert

The expulsion of the Armenian population from Eastern Anatolia during the First World War marked the separation of one of the oldeset Middle Eastern cultures from their homeland....