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, …

Resafa – Sergiupolis/Rusafat Hisham

Atlas zur Stadtentwicklung und Baugeschichte

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Resafa – Sergiupolis, the later Rusafat Hisham, is an exemplary site for an exemplary exploration. On the site of a late Roman limes fort (3rd century), a magnificent pilgrimage site to the tomb of St. Sergios (5th/6th century) developed, which …

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 …

Etruskische Heiligtümer des 8.–5. Jhs. v. Chr. als Wirtschaftsräume und Konsumptionsorte von Keramik

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While many aspects of Etruscan religion are intensively discussed and studied through current conferences, publications and fieldwork, general research and an overview of the socio-political and economic significance of the religious sphere in Etruscan society is still lacking. This volume …

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 …

Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft im archaischen Süditalien

Ein Modell zu Identität und Hexis, ausgehend von Ripacandida und weiteren binnenländischen Gemeinschaften

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The necropolis of Ripacandida in southern Italy (Apulia/prov. Foggia) is situated on a hill mediating between the uplands of the southern Apennines to the west and the Adriatic shore to the east. The local Archaic-Classical community (6th/5th century BCE) witnessed …

Capital continuous

A Study of Vandal Carthage and Central North Africa from an Archaeological Perspective

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The Vandal period in North Africa has aroused the interest of historians since long as an intermediate period in late antique North Africa, spanning over much of the fifth and the early sixth centuries until the Vandal kingdom was conquered …

Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey

(Unveränderter Nachdruck)

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This detailed handbook contents of a catalogue of ethnic groups, surveys, lists by villages and administrative districts, essays on selected groups by contributing authors, and six maps.
It presents the present state of knowledge about ethnic groups in Turkey. The intention …

Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey

Supplement and Index

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This volume represents a supplement to the first volume, which appeared in 1989, and provided the documentation on which TAVO maps A VIII 14 a-b (Republic of Turkey: Rural Ethnic Minorities) were based. The book remains the only comprehensive treatment …

Stadtentwicklung und Migration im Südjemen

Mukalla und die hadhramitische Auslandsgemeinschaft

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The study analyses the interrelation between urban development and migration, taking the coastal town of Mukalla (South Yemen) as an example. The study explores the importance of transnational family ties for urban development and furthermore discusses the transition process from …

Strukturen der Gesellschaft im Mittelalter

Interdisziplinäre Mediävistik in Würzburg

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Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes beleuchten fünf zentrale Lebensbereiche mittelalterlicher Gesellschaft: Zunächst werden in einer ersten Gruppe von Aufsätzen verschiedene Konzepte zur Beziehung von Mann und Frau im Mittelalter vorgestellt. An weiteren Beispielen wird die Rolle von Klerikern und Mönchen im …

Der Jenaer Maler

Eine Töpferwerkstatt im klassischen Athen

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