Tibetan Pastoralists and Development

Negotiating the Future of Grassland Livelihoods

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The unique pastoralist economy, society, and culture on the Tibetan plateau has experienced profound changes during the 20th century: An ever closer integration into the Chinese state, a wide array of policies directed at ‘development’, modernization, and urbanization, and dramatic …

Die Beduinen der Mamluken

Beduinen im politischen Leben Ägyptens im 8./14. Jahrhundert

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During the fourteenth century, the Bedouins (ʿarab) of Egypt experienced a significant increase in power. The Bedouins were the group with the largest military and political power in the Mamluk Empire, after the ruling Mamluks themselves. This study offers the …

Orts-Wechsel

Reale, imaginierte und virtuelle Wissensräume

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Focusing on the concept of ’changing places’, the essays in this anthology discuss processes of constitution, stabilization, and transformation of ’worlds of knowledge‘, covering a wide range of thematic and historical perspectives from the European Middle Ages to the 21st …

Die Kujuji-Stiftungen in Tabriz

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Jalayiriden (Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar)

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The Kujuji-foundations from 780/1380 are a vivid testimony to an outstanding personality in Tabriz during the Jalayerid period. Their founder, Khwaja Shaikh Kujuji, appears in the sources as political advisor to the rulers of his time, as urban notable, poet, …

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 …

Die humanistischen Triviums- und Reformationshandschriften der Codices Palatini Latini in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek

Cod. Pal. lat. 1461 bis 1914

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Mit dem vierten Band der „Kataloge der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg“ wird die wissenschaftliche Erschließung der lateinischen Palatina-Handschriften in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek nach mehr als 30jähriger Arbeit abgeschlossen. Der dabei erfaßte Bestand von 203 Handschriften ist für die Geistesgeschichte Süddeutschlands von herausragender …