englischThe idea of ›popularity‹ is rarely traced back beyond the 20th century and into the discourses of the time around or before 1800. Nevertheless, questions of popularity and the popularization of knowledge already form an integral part of Enlightenment debates in the 18th century: My study [...]
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englischThe idea of ›popularity‹ is rarely traced back beyond the 20th century and into the discourses of the time around or before 1800. Nevertheless, questions of popularity and the popularization of knowledge already form an integral part of Enlightenment debates in the 18th century: My study [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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englischThis historiographical study deals with the transformation of heroic images of German and French soldiers and officers during the Seven Years' War and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. A culture of sensitivity, levée en masse and intensive forms of opinion management on the part of [...]
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englischThis historiographical study deals with the transformation of heroic images of German and French soldiers and officers during the Seven Years' War and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. A culture of sensitivity, levée en masse and intensive forms of opinion management on the part of [...]
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englischThe book is focused on the religiosity of a migrant group that has hardly been researched so far. Using young adults with Vietnamese roots as examples, it shows how intergenerational changes in religiosity take place in the diaspora. By means of biographical-narrative interviews with more [...]
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englischThe book is focused on the religiosity of a migrant group that has hardly been researched so far. Using young adults with Vietnamese roots as examples, it shows how intergenerational changes in religiosity take place in the diaspora. By means of biographical-narrative interviews with more [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Das vorliegende Buch stellt den vorherrschenden medizinischen und psychologischen Perspektiven auf Alkoholabusus und -abhängigkeit eine soziologische Sichtweise gegenüber, die das medizinisch-psychologische 'Alkoholismus'-Modell teils kritisiert, teils ergänzt.Dies geschieht in Kombination einer [...]
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Das vorliegende Werk setzt sich anhand wissenschaftlicher Befunde mit den Erfahrungen mit dem Übersinnlichen auseinander.
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Im Zentrum dieses Buches steht eine neue familiensoziologische Perspektive auf Pflegekinder und ihre Entwicklung vor dem Hintergrund ihrer ganz besonderen sozialen Ausgangslage. Diese besteht darin, dass ihre Sozialisation durch zwei primäre Familiensysteme (Herkunftsfamilie und Pflegefamilie) [...]
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englischThis book offers an introduction into the methods and results of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, the academic discipline of the scripts, languages, and cultures of the Middle East from the beginnings of writing in the 4th millennium B.C. to the emergence of Islam in the 7th century A.D. It [...]
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