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 [...]

englischIslamic theological studies in Germany are regularly asked about the contribution of ‘Islamic ethics’ to the present. This raises the question of how contemporary ethical questions can be answered with respect to Islamic theological tradition. This book first presents four conceptions of [...]

englischIs there such a thing as "Islamic" feminism? What does gender and gender justice mean in Islam? In a series of essays, this volume examines theoretical questions, studies, issues and controversial topics that are intensely debated when it comes to concepts of gender, gender justice and [...]

englischThe global West has created a category that victimises ­Afghanistan’s women and instrumentalizes them for political purposes. This anthology focuses on values, beliefs and ­socialisation processes that perpetuate such role attributions. The volume shows that the women concerned by no means [...]

Die Studie stellt den intergenerativen Wandel innerhalb aufstiegsorientierter türkischer Familien in Duisburg dar. Anhand biographisch-narrativer Interviews mit Eltern, welche als Arbeitnehmer*innen nach Deutschland gekommen sind, und ihren (erwachsenen) Kindern wird skizziert, wie die jeweilige [...]

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 [...]

englischWith a focus on the political and religious surroundings in which Forty Hadith on Jihad emerge, the topic of the ‘exertion on the path of God’ will be for the first time systematically treated based on small hadith collections. A detailed analysis of four representative Forty Hadith [...]

Ibrāhīm al-Miʿmār zählte zu den bedeutendsten arabischen Dichtern der ersten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts. Er stammte aus der Schicht der Handwerker und Händler und ist ein Beispiel dafür, wie sich aufgrund eines Aufblühens des städtischen Bildungswesens in jener Zeit immer breitere Schichten am [...]

englischA dialogical examination of the Qur'an as an approach to transcendence is elementary remembering. This book examines topics such as understanding revelation and scripture, gender justice or anthropology exegetically and from the perspectives of textual criticism and the history of religion, [...]

englischReligion as a discontinued model – that is how the narrative of modernity likes to see it. Empirically, the situation is more complex: even if secularisation often makes religious institutions appear as losers, important areas of religion have proven to be innovative and productive. How, [...]

englischThis volume explores the concepts of paradise in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It reveals how they are portrayed as alternative and aesthetically significant realms compared to the current realities, what role they play in present-day culture and political ideals and how they can be [...]

englischThe Yearbook of the Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses (BaFID) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg offers current contributions to the study of exchange among religions from an interdisciplinary perspective. The format is aimed both at a [...]

englischIn the context of social change, Turkey is facing new challenges on the topic of old age and ageing. This interdisciplinary and empirical study analyses ideas of old age based on original sources, and enables authentic insights into Turkey’s culture and living environments.

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 [...]

englischThis study examines Muhammed Ali Al Hammi’s, the founder of the first Tunisian trades union, stays overseas in a geopolitical context. Among other things, it demonstrates how the Wilhelmine Empire employed the instrumentalisation of Islam and the development of pan-Islamism for its own [...]

Since its foundation, Kemalism has played a significant role in the political and social life of the Republic of Turkey. At the same time, Kemalism is one of the most controversial terms in Turkish political life. It is connected to historical personalities like its eponym Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as [...]

englischThe First World War was the first great catastrophe of the twentieth century, and the Ottoman Empire was part of it. The Ottoman theatre in the Great War witnessed both the demolition and re-making of the modern Middle East. This volume focuses on specific topics which touch upon concrete [...]

Wie hat sich der Islam in Deutschland institutionalisiert, in welchen Formen und in welchem Verhältnis zur Gesellschaft? Die Studie befasst sich mit dem Thema islamischer Institutionalisierung, wobei eine umfassende Analyse der Organisation des Islams und nicht, wie üblich, nur eine Darstellung [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

englischIgnaty J. Krachkovsky (1883–1951) is one of the most important Oriental scholars of the 20th century and is considered the founder of modern Arabic studies in Russia. The German edition of his biography by Anna A. Dolinina (1923–2017) presents his eventful life and exciting academic career [...]

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 [...]

englischReflections around the topics of gender and feminism - thought from an Islamic theological perspective - are indispensable for a contemporary Islamic theology. How can gender-sensitive and feminist aspects be justified from within theology? What significance do they bear for the realization [...]

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 book is the first to publish and annotate three letters written in Arabic by the Coptic Pope, Mark VII (†️1769). They are part of a series of correspondence between Mark VII and the Moravian Church, which was active in Egypt between 1752 and 1783. The author presents the background to [...]

Das Thema der vorliegenden Studie ist die ideologische Reproduktion bei der Muslimbruderschaft in der arabischen Welt zwischen 1950 und 2013. Den Prozess der Indoktrination verortet sie im sogenannten „Familiensystem“, dessen Funktionsweise sie im Kontext der gesellschaftlichen und politischen [...]

englisch"Muslims do nothing against extremism in their own ranks"! Such slogans are quite popular within anti-Islam hate-groups. Trying to avoid being labelled as racists, many would say that they do not consider all Muslims to be terrorists, but since the majority would stay silent in the face of [...]

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 [...]

„Ferman 74“ bezeichnet den systematischen Völkermord am jesidischen Volk durch fanatische Anhänger des sogenannten Islamischen Staats, der mit dem Überfall auf dasDorf Kotscho im Sintschar-Gebiet am 3.8.2014 begann. Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert durch über 200 Aussagen und Interviews mit [...]

englischIn "Der ṭarab der Sängersklavinnen", Yasemin Gökpınar presents a text critical edition of the three known manuscripts of the 10th chapter of Ibn Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī’s (died 749/1349) "Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār". In this monograph, she provides an unprecedented commented German [...]

englischHeroic tales recount violence, which can be defined as a deliberate assault on the body of another against their will. The act of violence is a culmination of courage, determination, contempt for rules and the power to act; violence appears as a paradigmatic test of the individual. Violence [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

englischIn previous research on Islamic education, the students’ perspective has been largely neglected. Against this background, this study examines the religious attitudes of Muslim children and adolescents with regard to the potential of Islamic education in schools. It shows how Muslim students [...]

englischIn early modern Europe, music-theatrical patterns of representing the foreign ‘Other’ helped shape relations with the Ottoman Empire. Accordingly, hybridity must be understood as a dynamic practice playing with cultural blends and borrowings, albeit possibly (re-)producing inequalities, [...]

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. [...]

Ǧamāladdīn Ibn Nubātah al-Miṣrī (686-768/1287-1366) war Kanzleischreiber und einer der einflussreichsten Literaten der mamlukenzeitlichen Epoche. Im vorliegenden Band werden dem an der Literatur jener Epoche interessierten Publikum zum ersten Mal zwei Prosawerke Ibn Nubātahs vorgelegt. Dieser [...]

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 [...]

This research is a study of Abû al-Qâsim Khân Ibrâhîmî [Abû al-Qâsim Khân] (d. 1969)'s Ijtihâd wa taqlîd, a contemporary Shaykhî Kirmânî literary text. This work is a particularly clear exposé of Shaykhî Kirmânî opinions on ijtihad, on the structure and hierarchy of the Shi'i community as proposed [...]

englischThis volume sheds light on the status of the humanities in the Soviet Union, using the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan as an example. The work presented here for the first time in translation is the literary thesis of the well-known Azerbaijani writer Mir Cəlal (1908–1978), written from the [...]

englischIslamist groups popularity and their success at the ballot boxes in Arab Spring have strikingly underlined their importance and their role as ‘big players‘ in Egypt‘s political system. When Arab Spring arose the groups examined in this book, namely the Daᶜwa Salafiyya, the Egyptian Muslim [...]

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 [...]

Die Untersuchung widmet sich den Repräsentationen des Islam und von Muslimen in Lesebüchern des Nationalsozialismus, der DDR und der Bundesrepublik (1935–1964/65). Es werden Lesebücher für die Volksschule (NS, BRD) und für die Grund- sowie die Polytechnische Oberschule (DDR) untersucht. Näher [...]

englisch‘Should medicine be allowed to do everything it can?’. This question is the focus of today's bioethics discussions and indicates that medical research and practice are engaged in a complex reciprocal relationship between natural science (i.e. what medicine can do), legal regulations (what [...]

englischThe relationship of Sharia to secular law, human rights, gender roles and ethical issues of thought and action has been the focus of media, social and political attention for decades. By combining an in-depth understanding of pre-modern Islamic jurisprudence with modern legal and social [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

2011 schickten Behörden des malaysischen Bundesstaates Terengganu muslimische Jugendliche, die nicht männlich genug erschienen, zwecks "Charakterbildung" in Trainingscamps, um homo- oder bisxuellen Neigungen vorzubeugen. Malaysia definiert sich als islamischer Staat, d. h., der Islam ist [...]

englischThe Petosiris necropolis at Tuna el-Gebel is one of the largest cemeteries of the Roman period in Egypt and belonged to the 'metropolis' Hermopolis Magna. This volume presents new archaeological and architectural-historical research results on the tomb houses of house groups 1 and 2, site [...]