Arabische Welt. Grammatik, Dichtung und Dialekte

Beiträge einer Tagung im Juli 2008 in Erlangen zu Ehren von Wolfdietrich Fischer

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This volume contains a selection of 15 contributions stemming from a conference of the same name held in July 2008 in honor of the Erlanger Orientalist Wolfdietrich Fischer. Wolfdietrich Fischer, who held the chair of Oriental Philology at the University …

Vorgestellte Öffentlichkeit

Zur Genese moderner Prosa in Ägypten (1860 bis 1908)

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This socio-literary study examines the relationship between processes of modernisation and reform, and new literary genres produced in Egypt of the second half of the 19th century. How did heterogenous modern literary forms emerge in this particular environment, and what …

The Arabic language across the ages

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“The Arabic language across the ages” provides a collection of linguistic and philological studies that investigate diachronically and chronologically different aspects of the Arabic language and its dialects. It presents studies on Arabic dialectology (e.g., Arabic North-African dialects), morphology (e.g., …

Syntax der Arabischen Schriftsprache der Gegenwart

Teil II: Die Verbalgruppe

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The Arabic verb has a number of semantic and syntactic features in which it differs from those of European languages. This second volume of “Syntax der arabischen Schriftsprache der Gegenwart” for the first time describes the semantic profiles of the …

Poetik der Fremdheit

Palästinensische und irakische Lyrik des Exils

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This first study on contemporary Arabic exile poetry focuses on four poets who contributed essentially to the innovation of the contemporary Arabic “Qa“īda”: Sa ͑dī Yūsuf (b. 1934) and Kamāl Sabtī (1955–2006) from Iraq as well as Zakariyyā Muḥammad (b. …

Kafka – Ein jüdischer Schriftsteller aus arabischer Sicht

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The book is devoted to the subject of the Arab reception of Franz Kafka between 1939 and today. The study focuses on the examination of Kafka and his work in the form of intellectual reflective commentaries. It deals with the …

Individuation and the Shaping of Personal Identity

A Comparative Study of the Modern Novel

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This book endeavors to contribute to comparative literary studies, especially the study of the modern novel, through its analysis of the process of individuation in four distinct literatures, two Western and two Arabic: Norwegian literature through the work of Knut …

Arabic Minimalist Story

Genre, Politics and Poetics in the Self-colonial Era

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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 order to present a variety of socio-political issues. Believing …

Die »nakba« erinnern

Palästinensische Narrative des ersten arabisch-israelischen Kriegs 1948

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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 Israel. To this day, the nakba is referred to continuously − not only …

Qamishly, Plumes et Ténèbres

Lectures de quatre œuvres en prose de Salim Barakat

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This study explores the early prose work of the Syrian-Kurdish novelist and poet Salim Barakat (b. 1951). Containing elements of both the realistic and fantastic, his narrative texts center on the life and culture of the Kurds in the 1950s …

Arabische Korrespondenz

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"Arabische Korrespondenz" ist ein Praxis bezogenes Handbuch und vermittelt Studenten, Praktikern, Geschäftsleuten und Übersetzern ein sicheres Korrespondieren auf Arabisch. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches stehen die Wirtschafts- und Handelskorrespondenz sowie die private und offizielle Korrespondenz. Kapitel für Kapitel begleiten den Benutzer …

Das Geheimnis der Geheimnisse

Die arabischen und deutschen Fassungen des pseudo-aristotelischen »Sirr al-asrar / Secretum secretorum«

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Das pseudo-aristotelische „Sirr al-asrar“ / „Secretum secretorum“ gehört zu den einflussreichsten Texten des Mittelalters. Der inhaltlich äußerst vielfältige Text entstand im 10. Jahrhundert in arabischer Sprache und wurde seit dem 12. Jahrhundert in verschiedene orientalische und europäische Sprachen übersetzt.
Die …

Die nordjemenitischen Dialekte (Glossar)

Buchstaben Fa–Ya

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This volume completes the three volume work on dialects in North-Yemen. Like in the preceding volumes interesting words are annotated and etymologically explained where possible.

Poetry’s Voice – Society’s Norms

Forms of Interaction between Middle Eastern Writers and their Societies

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Literary works are much more than mere illustrations of societal conditions. Literature is the setting in which society discusses itself. In this volume, international scholars of Literary Studies as well as specialists in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish Studies explore …

The Nouns of Koranic Arabic Arranged by Topics

A Companion Volume to the “Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic”

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This dictionary undertakes, for the first time, to group the substantives and adjectives in the Arabic Koran by topics, with glosses in English. The categories are partly derived from nature such as “Astronomy”, “Metals” or “Human Sexuality”. Even specialists in …

Bongornu, kif int?

Einführung in die maltesische Sprache. Schlüssel und Wörterverzeichnis

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Maltesisch ist eine Mischsprache aus einem semitischen Grundstock und starken italienischen und englischen Einflüssen. Daher zieht es immer wieder das Interesse sowohl der Semitistik / Arabistik als auch der Romanistik / Italianistik auf sich.
Der vorliegende Band ergänzt die „Einführung in …

Die Figur des Beduinen in der arabischen Literatur

9. bis 12. Jahrhundert

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Im Zentrum der Studie steht die Beduinenfigur, die im Kontext nomadisch-sesshafter Beziehungen untersucht wird. Sie erfüllt bestimmte Funktionen im arabischen Diskurs: Aufgrund ihrer Ambivalenz und Ambiguität eignet sich die Beduinenfigur in besonderem Maße dazu, heikle Themen anzusprechen und Standpunkte einzubringen, …

Reflections on Reflections

Near Eastern Writers Reading Literature

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This volume assembles the papers read at a symposium on the diverse forms of literature reception and intertextuality in Middle Eastern literatures in general and Arabic literature in particular. Arabic Studies are continuously confronted with powerful traditions and notions of …

Erzählte Tradition

Historische und literarische Figuren im Werk von Zakariya Tamir. Eine narratologische Analyse

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Zakariyyā Tāmir (b. 1931) is generally considered to be one of the most innovative authors in contemporary Arabic literature. One characteristic of his short stories is how they take up and retell the historical and literary traditions in a variety …

Palestinian Theatre

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The book outlines the development of Palestinian theatre from the first theatrical attempts before 1948, to the heavy blow, which these attempts suffered as a result of the Nakba, to regeneration of the professional theatre out of the ashes of …