Die vorliegende Arbeit ist in fünf Kapitel unterteilt: Im ersten Kapitel steht die Entstehung der deutschen Gemeinde in Konstantinopel im Vordergrund. In dieser thematischen Einführung werden vor allem die Immigration von Deutschen nach Konstantinopel und die Gründung der evangelischen Gemeinde [...]

Das mittelalterliche Bamberg gilt auf Grund seiner ausgedehnten Immunitätsbezirke, die das Stadtgebiet durchsetzten, als herausragendes Beispiel einer "fragmentierten" Stadt. Doch inwieweit beeinflussten die Stiftsgebiete die Handlungsspielräume der Bürger tatsächlich? Das vorliegende Werk zeichnet [...]

Angesichts der fortgeschrittenen Internationalisierung der Erinnerung an den Nationalsozialismus gewinnt die Frage an Gewicht, wie sich arabische Gesellschaften und Intellektuelle zur Geschichte, Ideologie und genozidalen Praxis des nationalsozialistischen Deutschland sowie zu den transnationalen [...]

englischThe dissertation is dealing with four conservative bestselling authors who celebrated their first successes in the Weimar Republic, did not leave Germany after 1933 and dominated the literary field until the 1950s: Werner Bergengruen, Hans Carossa, Reinhold Schneider and Ernst Wiechert. The [...]

Was ist Tatsache und was ist erfunden? Diese Frage stellt sich für alle Textsorten von der Antike bis heute. Die verschiedenen Auffassungen über das Verhältnis von Fakten und Fiktionen haben in der Forschung zahlreiche und langanhaltende Kontroversen ausgelöst. In diesem Tagungsband stellen [...]

englischDespite its undisputed place in the canon of the avant-garde, Oswald Wiener's „die verbesserung von mitteleuropa, roman“ remains, half a century after its publication, a riddle in need of interpretation. As part of his work on the first complete translation of the „verbesserung“ (into [...]

englischIt was clear to Schleiermacher that, long before each modern democratic state, whose self-understanding is based on their citizens being able to participate in them politically, is able to develop, the provision of democratic institutions alone is not enough. Historically, the development of [...]

englischHow does literature think about lived time? One of the central patterns of making sense of lived (and narrated) time is the category of fate, which has an ambiguous connection to the concept of chance. In contemporary literature, fate only seems to have become obsolete. Instead, the emphasis [...]

englischThis study examines late 20th century depictions of embryonic development derived from the Quran, which are referred to as a scientific miracle of the Qur'an. This approach of harmonizing religious and scientific knowledge has so far only been evaluated as a marginal phenomenon. Using the [...]

englischIs it possible to know whether a historic structure was built to be let or for use by the owners? Which sources offer information about the residents of a house? Was there such a thing as tenancy law in the past? When did the idea of a rented flat as we know it today come about?

Living in [...]

Das Phänomen Freiheit, das einerseits einen nicht-vorbestimmten Handlungsraum und anderseits ein verfolgbares kausales Verhältnis zum Urheber voraussetzt, lässt sich auf das Spannungsfeld zwischen Bestimmtheit und Unbestimmtheit zurückführen. Gemäß diesem Leitgedanken erläutert die vorliegende [...]

Die der Arbeit den Titel gebende Frage "Wer ist hier Muslim?" stellt nicht den Ausgangspunkt sondern das Resultat der Forschung dar. Ergebnis ist daherkeine klärende Beantwortung der Frage, sondern eine empirisch geleitete Hinterfragung der den Diskurs dominierenden Begrifflichkeit. Die Autorin [...]

Die Limesfachberatung des Bezirks Mittelfranken dient seit September 2010 als Nahtstelle zwischen Schutz und Vermittlung des UNESCO-Welterbes Limes. Als Fachberatungsstelle hat sie die Aufgabe, die am Limes beteiligten Interessengruppen, Organisationen und Behörden fachlich zu begleiten und zu [...]

englischWith "Erste Erde", Raoul Schrott has presented a text that attempts to grasp the entire body of knowledge about the world - and thus inscribed himself in the tradition of polymaths such as Alexander von Humboldt, who pursued a similar goal with his "Cosmos" in the 19th century. Schrott thus [...]

Die Existenz usbekischer Gemeinden in der Türkei ist das Resultat von Flucht- und Emigrationsbewegungen aus der als Türkistan bezeichneten Region Zentralasiens. Aus ihrer Herkunftsregion leitet sich die von den in die Türkei emigrierten Usbeken favorisierte Eigenbezeichnung Türkistanli (Türkistaner) [...]

englischThe anthology in honor of Stephanie Böhm occupies with different recourses within and to the material culture of antiquity. It focuses on processes of reception in sculpture and architecture, that might be classified as ‘archaisms’, ‘classicisms’ and ‘eclecticisms’. Most papers within this [...]

Was wäre Herkules ohne Keule, was Napoleon ohne Zweispitz und Old Shatterhand ohne Henrystutzen? Helden sind angewiesen auf Objekte, die sie als Helden kenntlich machen und ihre Außerordentlichkeit verbürgen. Auch für die Verbreitung ihrer Taten sind Objekte unverzichtbar: Ohne Druckerpresse keine [...]

Ihrem Selbstverständnis nach ist die Türkei seit der Republikgründung ein laizistischer Staat. Der heutige Beobachter konstatiert jedoch in ihrem Staatskult deutlich sakrale Elemente, und auch im politisch-gesellschaftlichen Leben ist eine vieldiskutierte „Re-Islamisierung“ erkennbar. Bedeutet diese [...]

englischHow do novels and stories about fictional artists describe their art? This question leads to a completely new understanding of the history of the artist novel from its beginnings in late 18th c. German literature to its intercontinental present. The study reveals that this history has two [...]

The present volume contains contributions from Classical Studies which aim at a retrospective interpretation of ceremonies to secure power in the regions of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Egypt and the Levant.The activities in which all wielders of military power in medieval societies, both Islamic and [...]

This volume is the result of a workshop entitled “Travel writing between fact and fiction – genre, functions and boundaries” organized at Bogaziçi University Istanbul in December 2010 within the frame of the research project “Europe from the outside – formations of Middle Eastern views on Europe [...]

„Berliner Romane haben meist keinen ordentlichen Anfang und kein rechtes Ende“, heißt es bei Joachim Ringelnatz. Die vorliegende Studie ergründet die Anfänge und frühen Ausprägungen des bis in die Gegenwart populären Berlin-Romans unter anderem an Texten von Wolfgang Kirchbach, Max Kretzer, Wilhelm [...]

englischThis study analyses one of the major works of Kemalist language reform (Türk Dili için). It offers a key to understanding the purism that characterised Turkish language policy in the 1930s and 1940s and had a lasting impact on the modern Turkish language. It is written by the Tatar-Turkish [...]

englischThe subject of this study is the invective of the Franconian imperial knight Ulrich von Hutten and that of his opponents. Ulrich von Hutten succeeded in becoming one of the most prominent and productive authors on the eve of the Reformation through broad transalpine connections and intensive [...]

Mit dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion und der Gründung ihrer Nachfolgestaaten ist eine Vielzahl von Dokumenten ans Tageslicht gekommen und ist der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht worden, die während der Sowjetzeit entweder staatlicherseits unter Verschluss gehalten wurden oder von ihren Besitzern [...]

englisch‘Turkish Studies’ deal with the history, culture, religions, languages and literature of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. The scope of the book includes everything relating to Turkey, e.g. Kurdish, Armenian, Greek or Jewish matters, as well as its relations with the Turkic [...]

englischThis study examines the production of knowledge on Tripolitania, Benghazi and Fezzan by the late Ottoman state, the ways in which local subjects and imperial officials communicated and what kind of agency they had. They operated in a continuum between a discourse of civilisation and complete [...]

englischWho was responsible for the thousands of murders of people with psychological, mental or physical impairments under National Socialism? How were institutions and actors interconnected?

The mental hospitals play a central role as crime scenes within the framework of Nazi "euthanasia: Health [...]

englischHow much tradition is there in the avant-garde? Is everything that is claimed to be new really new? Literary Expressionism (the most important avant-garde movement of Classical Modernism), which was and still is generally considered to be the epoch of "broken forms", claimed this for itself: [...]

englischThere is more to playing and singing traditional music than reproducing notes and songs that were written a long time ago or faithfully reenacting descriptions of historical dances. It involves adopting forms of music that have been handed down into today’s lifestyles and festivals and [...]

englischIn nearly all societies and epochs, the heroic is gendered on many levels. However, social and cultural production of the heroic cannot be understood solely through the lens of masculinity, nor does it make sense to regard women or femininity merely as exceptions. Rather, it is important to [...]

The nineteen articles gathered in this volume were presented at a conference on the cultural history of Mamluk Egypt and Syria, jointly sponsored by the Orient-Institut Beirut and the University of Balamand in May 2005. The authors of these studies break new ground, delving into diverse topics [...]

englischThe Florentine poet Aldo Palazzeschi (1885–1974), still little known in Germany, was, together with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, one of the main exponents of Italian Futurism. He stood for a non-bellicistic variety of Futurism, which mainly referred to Nietzsche’s theory of humor as a medium [...]

englischBorn in Tlemcen and educated in Damascus, the fourteenth-century Arab litterateur Ibn Abī Ḥaǧalah (725-776/1325-1375) spent most of his adult life in Mamluk Cairo. His best-known works are Sukkardān as-sulṭān (The Sultan’s Sugar Box) and Dīwān aṣ-ṣabābah (The Register of Passionate Love), [...]

englischThis study shows that Shakespeare’s plays challenge a system of periodization that divides history into three distinct eras (antiquity, the Middle Ages, modernity). In Troilus and Cressida and The Two Noble Kinsmen, several conceptions of time and temporality are played through in a way that [...]

englischBody — a fragile, limited, but powerful object. The phenomenon of bodily transformation has occurred in Chinese cinema from the early phase of the twentieth century until today. The recurrence of transforming bodies reifies the shifting boundaries between normality and abnormality, beauty [...]

englischŠamsaddīn an-Nawāǧī (788–859/1386–1455) was an outstanding poet and a successful author of anthologies. As many authors of the Mamluk period he has been largely neglected by scholarship. An-Nawāǧī’s oeuvre includes treatises on grammar and prosody, an extensive and widely received Dīwān, and [...]

englischThe present edited volume is based in part on papers that were delivered at an international conference, which was held at the American University of Beirut (AUB) on 5–6 December 2013 and was organized by the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) in association with the Center for Arab and Middle [...]

englischThis study provides a unique insight into the book culture of Aleppo in the 19th century. The document at the heart of this book is the ‘renewed register of the books endowed by ʿUthmān Pāshā’. This register allows a new perspective on what subjects were taught in madrasas and what subjects [...]

englischThis volume brings together fifteen new perspectives on the angel in primarily Islamic contexts. The contributions examine the origin, evolution, visual representation, and conceptual elaboration of this vital class of beings that bridges the gap between divine and human realms. The [...]

englischThis is the first volume aimed at placing the enormous set of fragments from the Qubbat al-khazna on the map of Middle Eastern history as a corpus. As much as its famous sibling, the Geniza of Cairo, the Qubba was ‘discovered’ in the 19th century, but its over 200,000 fragments have remained [...]

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 volume contains eighteen academic contributions examining the work of Orhan Pamuk, one of the leading authors of contemporary Turkish literature. Scholars working in Turkey, Central and Northern Europe, and the USA discuss various issues of his fictional and non-fictional texts, such as [...]

englischIn the present work, the literary elaboration of the concept of Foucault's heterotopia is related to the creation of poetically reflected writing concepts and poetic worlds in the texts of three modern Arab female authors, the starting point of which is often place-related vision or [...]

englischǦamāladdīn Ibn Nubātah al-Miṣrī (686-768/1287-1366) left a lasting mark on Mamluk literature and poetry and was considered by both his contemporaries and subsequent generations to be an unsurpassed author worthy of emulation. During his time as secretary in the Damascus chancellery, he wrote [...]

Vom Augsburger Reichstag im Jahr 1500 bis zum Ende des Heiligen Römischen Reiches Deutscher Nation 1806 bestand der "Fränkische Reichskreis". Seit dem 2. Juli 2006 hat Franken mit dem "Tag der Franken" einen eigenen Festtag, durch den diese Zusammengehörigkeit wieder fassbar gemacht werden soll. [...]

englischThis volume, which was published in cooperation with the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris, discusses surrealism in literature and art in Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey between the 1930s and 1980s. Surrealism emerged as a movement in art and literature in Europe in the [...]

englischAlthough deviance as a historical phenomenon has been well researched, only few studies have focused on clerics who were unwilling or unable to adhere to the norms of priestly conduct. This volume presents selected cases from the 18th century to show how deviance arose, in which forms it [...]

In vormodernen Gesellschaften wurde eine Person erst in ihren Beziehungen zu anderen Menschen als wirklich lebendig angesehen. Entsprechend bedeutete eine Isolation aus dem Gemeinwesen eine Minderung des Lebens und der Existenz. Der Ausschluss konnte so weit gehen, dass man die Ausgegrenzten als [...]

englischThe development of state formation in Europe has proceeded under special conditions as jurisprudence was influenced sustainably by the heritage of the ancient world with Roman and ecclesiastical law. It is impossible to adequately describe state and politics since the late Middle Ages [...]

englischBased on a corpus of twelve wills of Catholic, Lutheran, and Calvinist sovereigns of three territories of the Holy Roman Empire from the period of the Confessional Age, this study investigates the influence of the confession of the testator princes on the use of language in their wills. For [...]

Die vorliegende, leicht überarbeitete Arbeit, die im Januar 2013 an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster als Dissertation eingereicht wurde, geht der Frage nach, ob sich die Prozesse der Konfessionalisierung auch auf den schriftlichen Sprachgebrauch der Frühen [...]

englischInvestigating the use of language in pieces of visual art enables a sensual experience of its complexity. This study is therefore built like an exhibition: Based on over eighty paintings it scrutinises versatile constellations of language use and highlights its prototypical contingency. This [...]

englischAt the beginning of the 20th century, sport turned into a phenomenon with great cultural reach. The modern sporting hero came onto the scene as an often politically and economically instrumentalised picture of perfection, showcased both in the media and at competitions. Despite criticism of [...]