Oriental Languages

Erzählte Tradition

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

17 x 24 cm, 208 p., hardback
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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
17 x 24 cm, 256 p., hardback
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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 …

Nizamis Schatzkammer der Geheimnisse

Eine Untersuchung zu Mahzan ul-asrar

17 x 24 cm, 432 p., hardback
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This study of Niẓāmī’s (d. 1209) Makhzan ul-asrār (Treasure of Mysteries) deals with problems of the work’s history and reception, analyzing the formal setting of the poem as well as its stylistic elements, in particular its rich and difficult imagery. …

Sehnsucht nach Sinn

Literarische Semantisierung von Geschichte im zeitgenössischen türkischen Roman

17 x 24 cm, 296 p., hardback
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Towards the end of the 20th century a new interest in the Ottoman and Seljuk past crystallized in Turkish fiction. In the process, not only an array of aspects connected with the “official”, heroic-nationalist version of history were subjected to …

Martyrdom in Literature

Visions of Death and Meaningful Suffering in Europe and the Middle East from Antiquity to Modernity

17 x 24 cm, 380 p., hardback
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This book aims to achieve a deeper understanding of the very human phenomenon of martyrdom by analysing in detail its highly varied re-enactments in European and Middle Eastern literatures. Despite its divergent historical, religious, philosophical or political circumstances, there does …

Muhammad Iqbal’s Romanticism of Power

A Post-Structural Approach to His Persian Lyrical Poetry

17 x 24 cm, 284 p., hardback
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A study of the Persian poetry of Muḥammad Iqbāl (1877-1938), today Pakistan’s national poet, this work identifies the position his poems occupied between tradition and modernity, specifying the appeal they held for his contemporaries. Drawing on structural text analysis, the …

Writers and Rulers

Perspectives on Their Relationship from Abbasid to Safavid Times

17 x 24 cm, 260 p., hardback
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Nine essays explore the ways in which individual Arabic and Persian authors between the 9th and 17th centuries (with examples drawn from the Abbasid to the Safavid dynasties) chose rulers and other political leaders as the recipients for their writings, …

Brückenschläge

Eine integrierte »turkoarabische« Romangeschichte (Mitte 19. bis Mitte 20. Jahrhundert)

17 x 24 cm, 656 p., hardback
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Brückenschläge (Building Bridges) is the first detailed and systematic comparison of two modern Middle Eastern literatures, taking the novel genre as a paradigm. The study’s synoptic approach challenges, and gets past, the concept of Arabic resp. Turkish “national literatures”, outlining …

Crisis and Memory

The Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative

17 x 24 cm, 260 p., hardback
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This volume explores the literary representation of social and political crises that have punctuated the second half of the 20th century in the Middle East. From the creation of the state of Israel and its continuing aftermath, to the Suez …

Übersetzung und Rezeption

Die byzantinisch-neugriechischen und spanischen Adaptionen von »Kalila wa-Dimna«

17 x 24 cm, 320 p., cloth
56.00 €
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Seit längerer Zeit interessiert sich die Forschung für Fragen des Kultur- und Sprachkontaktes, der Hybridisierung, der Kulturzonen überschreitenden Grenzgänger. Trotz der nicht immer einfachen Quellenlage werden diese Fragestellungen mit großem Erfolg auch auf das Mittelalter angewandt. Byzanz nimmt in der …

Die Literaturen der Völker Kaukasiens

Neue Übersetzungen und deutschsprachige Bibliographie

17 x 24 cm, 272 p., zahlreiche Karten, hardback
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Die Literaturen der Völker des Kaukasus (Kaukasiens) sind in Europa weitgehend unbekannt. Mit dem vorliegenden Buch werden gleichzeitig mehrere Lücken geschlossen: eine erste deutschsprachige Anthologie kaukasischer Literatur wird präsentiert, eine Bibliographie der bisher ins Deutsche übersetzten Literatur aus Kaukasien vorgestellt …

Arabische Romantik im Exil

Das poetische Werk des Fauzi al-Ma‘luf

17 x 24 cm, 320 p., hardback
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Thanks to his cycle of poems On the carpet of the wind, the Lebanese writer Fawzī al-Ma ͑lūf (1899−1930) is considered one of the most outstanding representatives of Arabic romantic poetry in Latin American exile. This study undertakes a dual …

Jesus, Joseph and Job

Reading Rescriptings of Religious Figures in Lebanese Women’s Fiction

17 x 24 cm, 188 p., hardback
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Joseph, Jesus and Job are all immediately recognizable religious figures in both Christianity and Islam who have been incorporated into a range of artistic and literary projects both inside and outside the Arab world. This study examines how three Lebanese …

Geschichten über Geschichten

Erinnerung im Romanwerk von Ilyas Huri

17 x 24 cm, 196 p., hardback
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Elias Khoury (b. 1948) is one of the most outstanding figures in Lebanon’s cultural, intellectual and literary life today. The study focuses on the theme of memory in Khoury’s novels. In the light of the Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990 …

Die Macht der Darstellung

Gender, sozialer Status, historiographische Re-Präsentation: Zwei Frauenbiographien aus der frühen Abbasidenzeit

17 x 24 cm, 190 p., hardback
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͑Ulayya bint al-Mahdī (160−210/ 777−825), the younger sister of the Caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd, and ͑Arīb (181−277/ 797−890), a first enslaved, later manumitted woman, are exceptional figures of the musical and poetic arts performed at the court of the early Abbasids. …