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Craft Production in the Mongol Empire
Karakorum and its Artisans
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The book offers for the first time an in-depth study of craft production in the capital of the Mongol Empire,...
A Layered History of Karakorum
Stratigraphy and Periodization in the City Center
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The up to 5 m thick stratigraphy in the center of Karakorum, the most important city of the Mongol Empire north...
Cilicia as Sacred Landscape in Late Antiquity
A Journey on the Trail of Apostles, Martyrs and Local Saints
Cilicia as Sacred Landscape in Late Antiquity is a journey of discovery of the rich religious landscape of Cilicia in Asia Minor in Late Antiquity, with its contrasting and...
Purpur in Byzanz
Privileg und Würdeformel
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Als Ergänzung zu den angeführten Studien und dem bleibenden Desiderat der wenigen ausgewerteten Bildquellen...
Von Allah bis Zypresse
Bildwörterbuch zur islamischen Ikonographie
The alleged Mohammedan image ban is opposed by a diverse Islamic world of images, which knows religious and profane scenes as well as mythological and symbolic motifs. They are...
Die liturgischen Orte im Wandel der Zeit
Taufe – Beichte – Abendmahl – Predigt
From antiquity to the present, the theological and art-historical development of the places where the sacraments of baptism, confession and the Lord's Supper are administered and...
Re-enacting the Past
A Cultural History of the School of gTsang smyon Heruka
This book is devoted to the study of the so-called “School of gTsang smyon,” i.e. the religious community that gathered around the Tibetan master gTsang smyon Heruka (1452–1507)....
The Life and Works of Karma ’phrin las pa (1456–1539)
Nonsectarian Scholar Mystic of Southern Tibet
Among the so-called learned and accomplished masters of Tibet’s “long 15th century”, the First Karma ’phrin las pa stands out as influential commentator on Saraha’s Dohā, great...
Der frühchristliche Kirchenraum
Ikonographie – Ausstattung – Liturgie
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Die Architektur des Kirchenbaus ist zunächst eine leere Hülle. Hier wird für die frühchristliche Zeit der...
Négociations et relations interculturelles entre la chrétienté latine et la chrétienté grecque aux conciles de Bâle et de Ferrare-Florence (1431–1439)
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Wie der Titel es bereits ankündigt, behandelt die Publikation die Beziehungen zwischen der lateinischen und der...
Miniaturen mittelalterlicher Kalpasutra-Handschriften
Eine ikonographische Betrachtung mit kultur- und religionsgeschichtlichen Anmerkungen
The focus of this study on Indian book illumination are the miniatures of six Jain Kalpasūtra manuscripts produced in western India (Gujarat and Rajasthan) as well as in Jaunpur,...
Editor: Daiber, Verena
From Ordinary to Luxury
Islamic Ceramics from Iran, Central Asia and Afghanistan
188 pieces of glazed and unglazed pottery from The University Museum of Islamic Art are studied and grouped into categories of surface treatment. The collection’s asset is its...
Aus den Tiefenschichten der Texte
Beiträge zur turko-iranischen Welt von der Islamisierung bis zur Gegenwart
Being case studies, the contributions to this volume highlight various aspects of the Turco-Iranian world starting from the Islamization in the 7th century up to the present day....
Politik und Religion in Nordkaukasien
Das Verhältnis von Islam und Widerstand am Beispiel von Tschetschenen und Inguschen (1757–1961)
This study clarifies the question to what extent the narrative of the Chechens, which has been handed down for centuries by Russian historians, is a religious fanatic. To this...
Handbuch zur Islamischen Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte
In the style of the classical handbook, the Handbook on Islamic Archaeology and Art History contains 765 pages with over 400 colour illustrations covering the entire field of...
Visionserwartung
Visualisierung und Präsenzerfahrung des Göttlichen in der Spätantike
The book identifies the central role of the visions of God in late antique society, arguing that expectation of visions (“Visionserwartung”) structured much of late antique life....
Editor: Cicuzza, Claudio
A Descriptive Catalogue of Burmese Manuscripts in the Fragile Palm Leaves Collection
Volume 3
We are pleased to present the three volumes compiled by Peter Nyunt in the series "Material for the Study ofthe Tripitaka". The Fragile Palm Leavcs Foundation manuscript...
Editor: Cicuzza, Claudio
A Descriptive Catalogue of Burmese Manuscripts in the Fragile Palm Leaves Collection
Volume 1
We are pleased to present the three volumes compiled by Peter Nyunt in the series "Material for the Study ofthe Tripitaka". The Fragile Palm Leavcs Foundation manuscript...
Editor: Cicuzza, Claudio
A Descriptive Catalogue of Burmese Manuscripts in the Fragile Palm Leaves Collection
Volume 2
We are pleased to present the three volumes compiled by Peter Nyunt in the series "Material for the Study ofthe Tripitaka". The Fragile Palm Leavcs Foundation manuscript...
Orientalische Bibelhandschriften aus der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK / Oriental Bible Manuscripts from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK
Eine illustrierte Geschichte / An Illustrated History
The collection of Oriental manuscripts at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz forms with its 42,000 volumes one of the most significant collections of its...