Araber

Die Messingstadt

Eine Erzählung aus „Tausendundeiner Nacht“. Architektur einer Heiligwerdung

17 x 24 cm, 304 p., hardback
79.00 €
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Anyone associating The Arabian Nights with erotic stories will doubtlessly be disappointed when reading “City of Brass” (Nights 566−578). This tale deals not with the lust for life but, on the contrary, with the vanity of existence: Each individual who …

Aromata in der iranischen Kultur

unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der persischen Dichtung

17 x 24 cm, 368 p., hardback
79.00 €
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This volume is the result of more than 10 years' research in Persian culture from the Achaemenid period (559 B.C.) until the end of the Safavids’ time (1722 A.D.). The main concern was finding out what the sources tell us …

Der imaginierte Nomade

Formel und Realitätsbezug bei antiken, mittelalterlichen und arabischen Autoren

17 x 24 cm, 196 p., hardback
45.00 €
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When a pre-modern author writes about nomads, his writing is immediately suspected of being soaked with literary formulae. This suspicion, which is no doubt justified, is for the historian linked to the question: what kind of reality can be seen …

Brückenschläge

Eine integrierte »turkoarabische« Romangeschichte (Mitte 19. bis Mitte 20. Jahrhundert)

17 x 24 cm, 656 p., hardback
59.00 €
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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 synoptic approach challenges, and gets past, the concept of Arabic resp. Turkish “national literatures”, outlining …

Arabische Romantik im Exil

Das poetische Werk des Fauzi al-Ma‘luf

17 x 24 cm, 320 p., hardback
49.00 €
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Thanks to his cycle of poems On the carpet of the wind, the Lebanese writer Fawzī al-Ma ͑lūf (1899−1930) is considered one of the most outstanding representatives of Arabic romantic poetry in Latin American exile. This study undertakes a dual …

Palästinenser im arabischen Roman

Syrien, Libanon, Jordanien, Palästina 1948 bis 1988

17 x 24 cm, 480 p., hardback
52.00 €
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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 representatives of the Palestinian collective. They frequently appear on the scene as guerilla …

Sprache als ein Instrument der Macht

Strategien der arabischen politischen Rhetorik im 20. Jahrhundert

17 x 24 cm, 208 p., hardback
42.00 €
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In der Geschichte sind zahlreiche Ereignisse und persönliche Schicksale überliefert, die belegen, daß mit Worten Macht ausgeübt wurde. So auch in der arabischen Geschichte. Da dieses Thema weder von der arabischen noch der internationalen Forschung bisher zusammenhängend bearbeitet wurde, stellt …

The works of Yahya ibn Adi

An analytical inventory

17 x 24 cm, 162 p., cloth
25.00 €
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The fame of the Jacobite Christian Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn ’Adi (893-974) as in influential philosopher and as en eminent apologist of the Christian faith has been founded on reputation rather than on the study of his work. When Augustin …