Hama als Erinnerungsfigur

Tabu, Schweigen und der Kampf um Deutungshoheit in der syrischen Literatur

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Dieses Buch widmet sich dem Massaker von Hama im Jahr 1982, das jahrzehntelang zu den stärksten Tabus der syrischen Gesellschaft zählte. Anhand literarischer Darstellungen und Deutungszuschreibungen werden Formen des Schweigens, Erinnerns und Erzählens im Zusammenhang mit dem Massaker analysiert. Die …

Realms of Strangers: Readers, Language, and Trickery in Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī

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This is a book about strangeness and strangers in the Maqāmāt of Ḥarīrī, an Arabic compendium of literary fiction from the 6th/12th century, featuring in fifty episodic narratives an intellectual pursuing a trickster to collect his rare words, sophisticated compositions, …

Von Buddha bis Hafiz – Aufsätze zu Indologie und Iranistik

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In the first part of this work are described the religion and art of Buddhism as well as ancient and late medieval weapons. The second part consists of aspects of Iran's material culture, presented from historical and literary sources, especially …

Writing as Re-enchantment: The Arabic and Turkish Novel’s Neo-Sufi Response to Secular Modernity

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This study examines the revival of Sufism in the Arabic and Turkish novel during the second half of the 20th century. A picture is drawn where Sufism forms a main source of literary inspiration and becomes a mode to establish …

Die altsüdarabischen Minuskelinschriften auf Holzstäbchen aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München

Band 2 Die altsabäischen und minäaischen Inschriften. Mit einem Anhang: Unbeschriftete Objekte und Fälschungen

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The texts carved in wooden sticks from Ancient Yemen comprise legal and business documents, correspondence by letter as well as records from religious practice and school exercises. These texts provide unique glimpses of daily life in the southern part of …

The Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī

Authorship, Texts, and Contexts

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Through investigations of manuscripts, this book explores important aspects of the life of Badîʿ al-Zamân al-Hamadhânî’s Maqâmât. The broad concerns of the book are divided into three sections: authorship, texts, and contexts. Each chapter in this volume investigates hitherto unstudied …

Oscillating Bodies

Understanding Tunisian Society through its Novels (1956-2011)

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Oscillating Bodies reads together the depiction of human bodies in arabophone and francophone Tunisian novels. This produces an understanding of Tunisian society from the country’s independence in 1956 until the revolutionary upheavals of 2010/2011. It appears as a society that …

Ein leises Geräusch wie ein Gefühl des Sehnens

Dichtung und Zeugenschaft zum faschistischen Konzentrationslager in Libia Coloniale

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Arabic poetry about the Italian concentration camps in Libia Coloniale is often understood primarily as a historical source, thereby neglecting the poems' literary merits. A Soft Sound, Like a Feeling of Longing approaches these poems from a literary theoretical perspective …

Wörterbuch Deutsch - Ägyptisch-Arabisch

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Das etwa 20.000 Stichwörter enthaltende Wörterbuch „Deutsch–Ägyptisch-Arabisch“ wendet sich an diejenigen, die sich eingehender ins Ägyptisch-Arabische vertiefen wollen. Es basiert auf langjähriger Sammeltätigkeit des Autors und bietet über den gängigen ägyptischen Dialektwortschatz hinaus auch gehobenere, dem journalistischen Sprachgebrauch entstammende Übersetzungsäquivalente, …

Decoding DA’ISH

An Analysis of Poetic Exemplars and Discursive Strategies of Domination in the Jihadist Milieu

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Why do Jihadists compose poetry and what role does poetry play in the transmission of the jihadist ideology? Decoding DĀʿISH is located at the intersections of the literary, the religious, and the political in jihadist discourse. The study examines how …

The Ancient South Arabian Royal Edicts from the Southern Gate of Timna and the Gabal Labah

A new Edition with Philological and Historical Commentary

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The kingdom of Qataban flourished in ancient South Arabia during the second half of the first millennium BC. There is an extensive corpus of around two thousand inscriptions written in Qatabanic, one of the linguistic variants of ancient South Arabian, …

Die jungen Kosmopoliten

Prozesse von Aneignung und Abgrenzung in der zeitgenössischen türkischen Literatur

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Young authors from Turkey question boundaries, they are challenging borders between nations, between humans, between times. Their works reflect a new zeitgeist which is often shaped by contradictions, but instead of trying to dissolve these contradictions, withdrawing to one's own …

Die Entblößung der Wörter

aš-Šidyāqs literarische Listen als Kultur- und Gesellschaftskritik im 19. Jahrhundert

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How do word lists matter for Arabic literature? From the perspective of Literary and Cultural Studies, this monograph approaches the literary word lists of Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq (1805/1806–1887), one of the most important Arab intellectuals of the nineteenth century, and …

Death and Burial in the Near East from Roman to Islamic Times

Research in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt

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This book is based on a German-Arab colloquium held in Amman in September 2013, where current excavation and research results on death and burial from Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt were presented. For the first time, Arab and Near Eastern …

Lernwortschatz Fußball

Arabisch – Deutsch

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Das Werk bietet erstmals den neuhocharabischen Fußball-Wortschatz umfassend dar, der bisher in Forschung und Lehre kaum Beachtung fand. Es möchte den Arabisch-Lernenden in die Lage versetzen, Medienberichte rund um den Fußball zu verstehen. Es ist thematisch gegliedert und verfügt über …

Gestalten durch Verbergen

Ghassan Salhabs melancholischer Blick auf Beirut in Film, Video und Dichtung

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This volume is the first comprehensive, across-media study of the work of the Lebanese film auteur Ghassan Salhab. His oeuvre emerges in a conceptual environment shaped by a crisis of representation. It is examined not only in its confrontation with …

Marokkanisch-Arabisch

Ein Lehrbuch zum Selbststudium und Unterricht

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With this text book anyone can learn to speak and understand Moroccan Arabic. No foreknowledge of Arabic is needed, just the motivation to learn the language. The course aims at practical communication skills. After finishing this course the learner will …

Commitment and Beyond

Reflections on/of the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s

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This book is about relations between literature, society and politics in the Arab world. It is an attempt to come to terms with the changing conceptualizations of the political in Arabic literature in recent modern history. It examines historical and …

Boote, Burgen, Bischarin

Heinrich Schäfers Tagebuch einer Nubienreise zum zweiten Nilkatarakt im Jahre 1900

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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 Ernst-von-Sieglin-Expedition to Siwa Oasis were utilized to finance the expedition. Taking part were …

Grenzgänge

Androgynie – Wahnsinn – Utopie im Romanwerk von Huda Barakat

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Hudā Barakāt’s novels are complex and densely woven texts that focus on the obsessions and inner conflicts of their protagonists. The first monograph dealing with the Lebanese author’s work, this book presents in-depth analyses of her first three novels, each …