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Syrien und seine Nachbarn von der Spätantike bis in die islamische Zeit
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Der vorliegende Band enthält dreizehn Beiträge zu verschiedenen Aspekten der syrischen Architektur und...
Arabic Minimalist Story
Genre, Politics and Poetics in the Self-colonial Era
One of the major aims of this book is to characterize the Arabic minimalist story as a newly established genre of narrative fiction that exploits a host of “austere” techniques in...
In den Bergen der Götter
Alte Glaubensvorstellungen, Überlieferungen und Bräuche bei den Georgiern des Kaukasus
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Der Kaukasus, jenes Randgebirge unseres Kontinents, in dem die höchsten Berge Europas aufragen, bezaubert und...
Die Geburt des Propheten Muhammad
Drei Dichtungen aus Mittelasien
This volume focuses on the veneration of the prophet Muhammad in Central Asia towards the end of the 19th century. It presents three text that praise the birth of the prophet: the...
Tierisch moralisch. Die Welt der Fabel in Orient und Okzident
Begleitschrift zur Sonderausstellung im Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg vom 22. Februar bis 1. Juni 2009
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Die Fabel gehört zu den ältesten und am weitest verbreiteten Literaturgenres der Welt. Ihre Tradition reicht von...
Die Grenzen der Welt
Arabica et Iranica ad honorem Heinz Gaube
Applying different methods on a broad range of sources, the present book attempts to transcend the limits between disciplines of Oriental Studies in twenty articles dedicated to...
Mensch und Tier in der Antike
Grenzziehung und Grenzüberschreitung
These conference proceedings explore the encounter of human and animal nature from a philological, historical and archaeological perspective in areas such as the body, myth,...
Von listigen Schakalen und törichten Kamelen. Die Fabel in Orient und Okzident
Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium im Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg zur Vorbereitung der Ausstellung „Tierisch moralisch. Die Welt der Fabel in Orient und Okzident“ am 22. und 23. November 2007
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Die berühmte, ursprünglich aus Indien stammende Fabelsammlung „Pancatantra“ ist in der Fassung, die ihr der...
Hevajra and Lam’bras Literature of India and Tibet as Seen Through the Eyes of A-mes-zhabs
The Hevajra Tantras and teachings of the 'Path with Its Fruit' (lam ‘bras) that originated in India have been central practices of Tibetan tantric Buddhism for a millenium. The...
»Bubalin« und »Bovidien« in Südmarokko
Kontext, Klassifikation und Chronologie der Felsbilder im mittleren Draa-Tal
This book deals with prehistoric rock art (petroglyphs) from the northern fringe of the Sahara, or more precisely from the area situated between the Western Anti-Atlas, the Jebel...
Coins and Tokens from Ancient Ceylon
Ancient Ruhuna. Sri Lanka-German Archaeological Project in the Southern Province. Vol. 2. Ed. by H.-J. Weisshaar, S. Dissanayake and W. Wijeyapala
Coins are a principal source to elucidate both the pattern of trade between Sri Lanka and the western world in late antiquity and the island’s monetary and economic history. The...
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...
Bankettgebäude in griechischen Heiligtümern
The consumption of sacrificial meat was a central part of Greek cult festivals. People used to dine outdoors or in temporary structures specifically built for the festivals....
Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie
Jahrbuch der Ernst-Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Band 1: Bericht über die Tagungen in Bamberg vom 1. bis 2. Juli 2005 und in Bonn vom 7. bis 8. Juli 2006
Volume 1 of the „Contributions to Islamic Art History and Archaeology“ presents a part of the papers from the first two colloquies of the Ernst Herzfeld-Society, 2005 and 2006....
Iran und iranisch geprägte Kulturen
Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Bert G. Fragner
From ancient times, 'Iranianate' cultures and the Persian language had a significant role beyond the borders of Iran: in the lands of the Near & Middle East, Central Asia as far...
Ma’layba et l’Age du Bronze du Yémen
Ma’layba, a settlement situated in the Aden hinterland (Yemen), was occupied from the end of the 3rd millennium to the 13th century BC. Here the joint German-Russian...
Existenzsicherung und Mobilität im ariden Marokko
The living conditions of former nomads in the arid mountain and desert regions of Morocco have been subject to dramatic change during the last decades. New economic and social...
Der Orientteppich
Einblicke in Geschichte und Ästhetik
This volume analyses for the first time the orient carpet by means of historical and aesthetical aspects. The author introduces five new issues on the orient carpet – which have...
Kult und Kommunikation
Medien in Heiligtümern der Antike
Media research has become a common subject and method for various academic fields. But there is, so far, no such study dealing with media research in the field of archaeology....
Pastoral Morocco
Globalizing Scapes of Mobility and Insecurity
Pastoral Morocco explores the mobility of people and livestock in the context of neo-liberal globalization. Mobility is defined as a strategy to maintain and enhance access to...