englischFrom today’s perspective, Islam and capitalism seem to be natural partners. In a world where state socialism is on the wane, Islamic states in particular seem to be run by an exploitative class that in their hyper-capitalist way of profit-making does not care at all about social justice. [...]

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 [...]

Die Herausbildung des Islams bis zur ersten großen Konsolidierung unter dem Kalifen ʿAbdalmalik ist bis heute eine der präsentesten Epochen im islamischen kulturellen Gedächtnis. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die überaus reichhaltige arabisch-islamische Geschichtsschreibung systematisch aus [...]

englischThe book describes the confusing, contradictory and individualized musicscape in Turkey around the turn of the twenty-first century, including its prehistory throughout the twentieth century and sometimes beyond. Its focus lies on the recent tendency towards a disintegration of musical [...]

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), [...]

englisch"Performing Religion" investigates the relationship between texts, actors, and contexts in the study of Islam. Research in Islamic Studies to date has taken texts primarily as a medium of information. This volume emphasizes the material quality of texts, both written and oral. It focuses on [...]

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 [...]

englischUrsula Paszehr has conducted field research in the rural and Bedouin society of Jordan for many years, and she has collected vast amounts of material on the enactment and oral poetry and prose of lamentation. The female lament, niyāḥa, is an ancient ritual found in the Middle East and [...]