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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...
Sehnsucht nach Sinn
Literarische Semantisierung von Geschichte im zeitgenössischen türkischen Roman
Towards the end of the 20th century a new interest in the Ottoman and Seljuk past crystallized in Turkish fiction. In the process, not only an array of aspects connected with the...
The Conflict of Voices in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus and Mahmud Darwish
A Comparative Study
A comparative analysis of the work of the South African poet Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) and the Palestinian poet Maḥmūd Darwīsh (1942-2008), this study aims to demonstrate how a...
Muhammad Iqbal’s Romanticism of Power
A Post-Structural Approach to His Persian Lyrical Poetry
A study of the Persian poetry of Muḥammad Iqbāl (1877-1938), today Pakistan’s national poet, this work identifies the position his poems occupied between tradition and modernity,...
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...
Writers and Rulers
Perspectives on Their Relationship from Abbasid to Safavid Times
Nine essays explore the ways in which individual Arabic and Persian authors between the 9th and 17th centuries (with examples drawn from the Abbasid to the Safavid dynasties)...
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...
Brückenschläge
Eine integrierte »turkoarabische« Romangeschichte (Mitte 19. bis Mitte 20. Jahrhundert)
Brückenschläge (Building Bridges) is the first detailed and systematic comparison of two modern Middle Eastern literatures, taking the novel genre as a paradigm. The study’s...
Crisis and Memory
The Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative
This volume explores the literary representation of social and political crises that have punctuated the second half of the 20th century in the Middle East. From the creation of...
Palästinenser im arabischen Roman
Syrien, Libanon, Jordanien, Palästina 1948 bis 1988
In contemporary Arabic fiction from Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan as well as in Palestinian exile novels, Palestinians are predominantly depicted as and judged in terms of being...
Gegenwelten
Zur Literaturtheorie Idwar al-Harrats
The Egyptian novelist, short story writer and literary critic Idwār al-Kharrāṭ (b. 1926) is one of the most influential contemporary authors in the Arab world. This first...
Das Wagnis Tradition
Arabische Wege der Theatralität
“There is no independent Arab theatre; the Arabs adopted this genre from Europe.” For a long time this was the predominant thesis in Europe and the Arab world. But what is theatre...
Understanding Near Eastern Literatures
The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Near Eastern Literatures and participates in their ongoing dialogue with literary theory. It presents 19 different readings of...
Mit goldenem Siegel
Über Briefe, Schreiber und Boten im Sahname
This book examines the secretarial work at the pre-Arab Persian courts as described by Ferdowsi in the Šāhnāme. The work of scribes and messengers and the letters themselves are...