Wie stellt sich die Lage in islamisch geprägten Ländern beim Thema Religionsfreiheit, Religionskritik und dem Abfall vom Islam, der Apostasie, dar? Per Gesetz bekennen sich die meisten dieser Länder ausdrücklich zur Religionsfreiheit - praktisch aber erleiden kritische Intellektuelle, progressive [...]

englisch„‘Whoever preserves forty hadiths for my umma…‘ A type of hadith collection’s rise and development“

Being widely spread within and beyond the Arabic speaking world, the Forty Hadiths still belong to one of the most popular and varied types of hadith collection. Based on a quantitative [...]

Die Vierzig Hadithe sind für die Glaubens- und Lebenspraxis der Muslime vom 9. Jahrhundert an bis heute von großer Bedeutung, wurden wissenschaftlich bislang jedoch kaum beachtet. Für eine überschaubare Sammlung ausgewählter Prophetenüberlieferungen gestaltet sich der Inhalt der Vierzig Hadithe [...]

englischThis publication explores the presence of the shared heritage and interdependence of poetry composed around the theme of wine in diverse literary traditions of the Islamic world. The specialist contributions discuss multiple aspects of the literary polyphony of wine in the pre-modern Arabic, [...]

englischHow did intellectual elites, who had acquired their position and formed their self-conception within the Ottoman Empire, deal with its loss and change? This question is discussed by looking at their representations of Southeast Europe in Ottoman and Turkish travel literature. The study [...]

englischNotions of the unborn can be found in diverse medical, philosophical and theological works from antiquity to the present. While prior studies have examined similarities and differences between such notions in various learned and religious contexts, Syriac literary tradition has hardly [...]

englischNizari Ismailis are one of most active Muslim communities in academic education and knowledge production in the fields of Islamic studies and humanities. For this purpose, the community runs two academic institutions based in London: The Institute of Ismaili Studies and the Institute for the [...]

englisch This book critically analyzes the notion that there are passages in the 7th-century text of the Qur’an that reflect medical ideas of the time about the origin of human beings through pregnancy. It turns out that the Qur’an draws on a rich heritage of motifs, on the one hand baptismal [...]

englischThis volume offers an extensive philological study of the reports (akhbār) featuring Khadīja bt. Khuwaylid (d. 3 B. H. /619 A. D.) in the Arabic Islamic sources of various genres. Those reports are relatively limited when compared with the abundant reports featuring other prominent Islamic [...]

Angesichts des Erstarkens extremistischer Tendenzen innerhalb des Islams sehen sich heutige Muslime vermehrt mit der Forderung nach mehr Toleranz gegenüber anderen Glaubensbekenntnissen, Weltanschauungen und nicht zuletzt abweichenden Lebensstilen konfrontiert. Muslimen werden dabei oftmals von [...]

englischThe focus of the book is on the edition, translation and interpretation of official letters on the annual Nile flood sent in the 12th–15th centuries from Cairo to Syria, as well as replies and forwardings within Syria. The letters, wich are transmitted in literary sources, were composed by [...]

englischIn this publication, a literal and a free translation of Arabic proverbs and idioms into German are examined comparatively in order to show various influencing factors in the transmission process and their effects on the meaning. The different social, cultural and historical background of an [...]

The participation of Palestinian women in active combat has triggered complex - verbal, visual, written - discourses about the "istišhadiyat" within Palestinian society, which are analysed in the book. This is but one part of the much larger and no less diverse political discourse on the Palestinian [...]

Wie lässt sich die Entstehung des Kollektivsingulars "Islam" im Kontext der religionswissenschaftlichen Diskussion über eine Europäische Religionsgeschichte beschreiben? Und welche Religionsverständnisse, Wissenschaftlichkeitsdiskurse und Zeitdiagnosen prägten die Islamdebatten der zweiten Hälfte [...]

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 [...]