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Die Beduinen der Mamluken
Beduinen im politischen Leben Ägyptens im 8./14. Jahrhundert
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During the fourteenth century, the Bedouins (ʿarab) of Egypt experienced a significant increase in power. The...
Archäologische Untersuchungen zur Siedlungsgeschichte von Thugga
Die Ausgrabungen südlich der Maison du Trifolium 2001 bis 2003
This volume contains the results of the excavations that have been conducted by the Archaeological Institute at Freiburg University in cooperation with the Tunisian Institut du...
Editor: Khanoussi, Mustapha; von Rummel, Philipp
Der spätantike Münzschatz von Simitthus/Chimtou
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Chimtou, das antike Simitthus, liegt im nordwestlichen Tunesien am Fluss Medjerda in der Nähe von Jendouba. Es...
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...
Nordafrikanische Sigillata, Küchenkeramik und Lampen aus Augusta Vindelicum/Augsburg
This study investigates African Red Slip Ware (ARS), kitchen ware and lamps from Augusta Vindelicum (Augsburg in Bavaria). Products from North and Central Tunisian pottery...
Märchen und Geschichten der Beduinen im Sinai
The fairy tales and stories in this book draw a colourful picture of Bedouin life and of a vanishing culture. At the same time there are parallels and stunning similarities to the...
The Andalusian Music of Morocco
Al-Ala: History, Society and Text
This book reframes the history of the Andalusian music of Morocco by highlighting the interplay of oral and literary processes in the preservation and transmission of this...
Satire und Kontext
Gesellschaftskritik in den Dramen des ägyptischen Autors Ali Salem
This study examines the dramas of the Egyptian writer Ali Salem (b. 1936). In addition to determining Salem’s position in literary history and outlining developments in modern...
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...
Spätantikes Kleidungszubehör aus Nordafrika I
Trägerkreis, Mobilität und Ethnos im Spiegel der Funde der spätesten römischen Kaiserzeit und der vandalischen Zeit
This study is the first to give a comprehensive account of extant dress accessories, especially brooches and belt buckles, from late ancient North Africa. In the first of two...
Leben und Handeln im Alltag von Kairo
Sozialwissenschaftliche Analysen einer Gesellschaft im Umbruch
Under the influence of political and social discourses as a result of 9/11 and the Orientalist allegations on the part of Arab intellectuals, Lars Gaiser developed a new...
Westcar on the Nile
A journey through Egypt in the 1820s
On November 6, 1823, four Englishmen disembarked in the harbour of Alexandria. In the succeeding ten months, they traveled up the Nile as far as the Second Cataract and, in the...
Ornamentale Purpurwirkereien
De variis purpureis segmentis, paragaudis, clavis et ceteris ornamentis cum ornamento
The textile finds from Egypt provide a special quantitative and qualitative value to the ornamental purple textiles. They can be counted as a chief representative of ornamental...
Egypt 1350 BC to AD 1800
Art Historical and Archeological Studies for Gawdat Gabra
This tribute by a baker’s dozen of women to the esteemed Coptologist Gawdat Gabra comprises articles dealing with subjects reflecting his scholarly interests in the art and...
Frühbyzantinische textile Kopfbedeckungen
Typologie, Verbreitung, Chronologie und soziologischer Kontext nach Originalfunden
The analysis of archaeological textiles in order to write their ancient cultural history is still in its infancy. This study contributes to this process by cataloging more than...
Stadtbelagerung in der Spätantike – das Berliner Holzrelief
Since the first publication about it in 1901, this unique wooden relief has been attributed to the Coptic maker because it was discovered in Egypt. The precise meaning of its...
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...
Die koptischen Textilien im »museum kunst palast« Düsseldorf
Teil 2: Figürliche und ornamentale Purpur- und Buntwirkereien
The catalogue refers to the publication of the first part of the textile collection of the museum kunst palast in Düsseldorf, prepared by Karl-Heinz Brune. Presenting 276...
La Grotte d’Ifri n’Ammar
Tome 2. Le Paléolithique Moyen
Under a German-Moroccan cooperation, research into the early settlement history of eastern Morocco is taking place. One focus of this project is the archaeological excavations in...
Brunnen in den Städten des westlichen Römischen Reiches
The abundance of water in Roman cities was celebrated already in antiquity and became manifest in numerous different buildings. The present study discusses public and private...