Islam

Von Allah bis Zypresse

Bildwörterbuch zur islamischen Ikonographie

21 x 29.7 cm, 264 p., paperback / softback
29.95 €
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The alleged Mohammedan image ban is opposed by a diverse Islamic world of images, which knows religious and profane scenes as well as mythological and symbolic motifs. They are opened here for the first time systematically and for all art …

From Ordinary to Luxury

Islamic Ceramics from Iran, Central Asia and Afghanistan

21 x 29.7 cm, 192 p., hardback
79.00 €
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“From Ordinary to Luxury” is based on the glazed and unglazed pottery from The Bumiller Collection and is a profound study of Iranian and Central Asian ceramics. The Bumiller set is not a collection of masterpieces, but gives an insight …

Aus den Tiefenschichten der Texte

Beiträge zur turko-iranischen Welt von der Islamisierung bis zur Gegenwart

17 x 24 cm, 344 p., 1 Karte, hardback
98.00 €
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Being case studies, the contributions to this volume highlight various aspects of the Turco-Iranian world starting from the Islamization in the 7th century up to the present day. Covering the broad geographical spectrum spanning from the Bosporus via Upper Mesopotamia …

Politik und Religion in Nordkaukasien

Das Verhältnis von Islam und Widerstand am Beispiel von Tschetschenen und Inguschen (1757–1961)

17 x 24 cm, 684 p., hardback
148.00 €
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This study clarifies the question to what extent the narrative of the Chechens, which has been handed down for centuries by Russian historians, is a religious fanatic. To this end, the importance of Islam between 1757 and 1961 for the …

Der hygienische Imperativ

Gesundheitsversorgung und -aufklärung der Muslime des ausgehenden Zarenreichs (1864-1917)

17 x 24 cm, 280 p., hardback
98.00 €
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The attempt to establish a health system on the basis of modern European scientific medical standards meant a great adaptation challenge for the traditional people in the Russian Empire. Particularly for the Muslim minority the pressure to adapt to the …

Von Mekka bis Berlin

Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des islamischen Friedhofs

17 x 24 cm, 288 p., 112 Tafeln, hardback
49.00 €
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In this book the Islamic burial culture is presented extensively on the basis of their cemeteries, mausoleums and grave architecture from its beginnings at the time of Muhammad until the times of modern diaspora for the first time. It takes …

Hg. von der Ernst-Herzfeld-Gesellschaft. Redaktion: Julia Gonnella unter Mitarbeit von Rania Abdellatif und Simone Struth

Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

Jahrbuch der Ernst-Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Band 4

17 x 24 cm, 352 p., hardback
79.00 €
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In 2011, the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin celebrated the 100th anniversary of the German excavations of the Islamic-medieval site Samarra. The former Abbasid capital (836-892 A.D.) around 125 km north of Bagdad is one of the largest archaeological …

Die Kujuji-Stiftungen in Tabriz

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

17 x 24 cm, 206 p., hardback
78.00 €
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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, …

Divrigi

Unterwegs zur türkischen Mystik in Stein

21 x 28 cm, 224 p., hardback
110.00 €
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Since the medieval building complex consisting of the Friday mosque and the psychiatric hospital was declared “World Cultural Heritage Site” in 1986 the small provincial town of Divriği, hidden in the mountains of East Taurus, has become a popular destination …

Politics of Qat

The Role of a Drug in Ruling Yemen

Teil 1
21 x 28 cm, 880 p., 14 s/w- und 13 farbige Karten, hardback
98.00 €
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For Imam Yahya, one of Yemen’s last kings, qat was a delight that he praised in poems. For his adversary, the revolutionary al-Zubayri, the plant was the “devil in the shape of a tree«”. Still today the views on qat …

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 …

Hg. von der Ernst-Herzfeld-Gesellschaft. Redaktion: Lorenz Korn und Anja Heidenreich unter Mitarbeit von Barbara Finster, Barbara Henning, Robert Hillenbrand, Miriam Kühn, Markus Ritter und Robert Schick

Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

Jahrbuch der Ernst-Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Band 3

17 x 24 cm, 414 p., hardback
89.00 €
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Ornament has always been regarded as a field in which Islamic Art has excelled. However, it can be debated whether ornamental treatment of surfaces can actually be seen as a typical feature of a particular culture. The papers given on …

»Gott liebt das Handwerk«

Moral, Identität und religiöse Legitimierung in der mittelasiatischen Handwerks-risala

17 x 24 cm, 320 p., hardback
98.00 €
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The present book is the first large-scale research on the Central Asian crafts’ risala, a pre-Soviet code of conduct, and describes the crafts spiritual and social roots by drawing on oral and written sources.

Tabous, interdits et obligations de langage en Afghanistan

Éléments du vocabulaire de la vie privée en terre d’Islam

17 x 24 cm, 168 p., 2 Faltpläne, 4 Diagramme, 76 Tafeln, cloth
59.00 €
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This book reflects on a quarter-century of observations by Charles Kieffer (Research Director CNRS, Paris) during his dialectological research from 1957-1981 in all of Afghanistan, sometimes under very adventurous circumstances.
As a contributor to the “Linguistic Atlas of Afghanistan” under …

Die Dekorelemente der Elfenbeinskulpturen des Kalifats von Córdoba (Mitte 10. bis Anfang 11. Jahrhundert)
22 x 31.5 cm, 170 p., 2715 Zeichnungen auf 88 Tafeln, 4 Falttafeln, cloth
88.00 €
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The life work of the architect and art historian Christian Ewert was the investigation and analysis of west Islamic architectural adornment, from its flowering in the 10th Century through to the 12th Century. His last monograph, completed shortly before his …