englischCan elites use cosmological imagery to sanction marital and slavery practices for their political aspirations? Can interactions between Late Antique legal systems be thought beyond “borrowings?” This work studies legal writings from the Zoroastrian, East Syrian, and Islamic traditions [...]

englischThe current media coverage emphasizes the differences between “Christian West” and “Islamic East”. However, a similarity in development can be found by having a closer look at the history of the Islamic world. For example, a period during the rule of the Timurid dynasty is also known as [...]

englisch“Life and work of KANŌ Jigorō (1860-1938)“ by Andreas Niehaus is the first book to analyse the legacy of the most important Japanese physical educator of the late 18th and early 20th century in the historical context and based on a thorough reading of his abundant writings. While existing [...]

englischThis volume discusses the emergence and role of the art salon in the Arab region in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq. Institutional forms of exhibiting and teaching art emerged in the Middle East and North Africa in late colonial [...]

englischThis study deals with the nineteenth-century Ottoman Sufi community of the Melâmiyye. It is the history of a social group for which modernization meant a crisis, which it sought to overcome with the help of trance and imaginary self-exaltation. Based on the texts of outstanding Melâmîs and [...]

englischHistory is omnipresent in the 19th century; it is both the authority on interpreting the world and a political argument at the same time. The historical novel especially, the most popular means of conveying aspects of history, had a decisive influence on the culture of remembrance at that [...]

Wie lässt sich über religiöse Lehren, besonders wenn sie offenbart sind, entscheiden? Wie können Menschen über ihren Glauben entscheiden? Wie können religiöse Weltsichten die Wahrnehmung nicht-religiöser Entscheidungsgegenstände beeinflussen? Dem Spannungsfeld zwischen Religion und Entscheiden gehen [...]