englischThe 10th-century "Book of the Garden" (Kitāb ar-Rauḍa) by the Andalusian Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī's stands out from the Arabic alchemical literature with its clear theoretical explanations enriched with allegorical depictions. The tradition-historical study, critical edition, and German [...]

englischThrough this work, one can find a new way of interpreting Yoko Tawada's work and a new perspective on power analysis and self-play for intercultural literary studies. On the one hand, the book deals with the violent subject constitution under three kinds of power mechanisms in texts of [...]

Die Thematisierung des Frau-Seins bzw. der ‚Neuen Frau‘ auf eine spezifische Art und Weise in der modernen Literatur geschieht – wenn auch auf verschiedene Art und Weise – fast zeitgleich sowohl in der europäischen als auch in der chinesischen Kultur. Gilgi – eine von uns von Irmgard Keun und Regen [...]

englischThe Annual 2015 continues the series of books under this title which is being published since 2012. A specific feature of the current issue is that a number of articles appears to be the materials presented by the participants of the International scientific conference 'Minorities and [...]

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 [...]

Als offizielles Handbuch des japanischen Kultusministeriums stellte das "Kokutai no hongi" von 1937 die orthodoxe ultranationalistische Auslegung eines Themenkomplexes dar, der sich seit der Meiji-Zeit um die Frage des Wesens der japanischen Nation im politischen wie gesellschaftlichen Sinne [...]

englischThis volume provides a contribution to Arabic literary history from an exceptional perspective. It examines the literary expression of veneration of the prophet Muhammad, primarily the hitherto little researched field of praise poetry to the prophet (al-madīḥ an-nabawī) and its diverse [...]

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 history of the Kızılbaş-Alevis in the Ottoman Empire is often remembered and written as a history of persecution and oppression. This study opens up a perspective on the Ottoman state and the Kızılbaş-Alevis beyond such dominant narratives. It approaches the period between the 16th and [...]

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 [...]

englischAs numerous studies have shown, the European colonial paradigm of writing Arab history, according to which a golden age of greatness was followed by an epoch of stagnation or even decline in the post-Abbasid era, was internalized by the emerging intelligentsia of the na¿¿a to become an [...]

In dieser Publikation werden aussagekräftige Basiselemente und Schlüsselbegriffe der Gülen- oder auch hizmet-Bewegung anhand einer textuellen und multiperspektivischen Performanzanalyse (nach John L. Austin und Erving Goffman) untersucht. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, welche Gülen-Bewegung gegenüber [...]

englischIn a time of rapid societal changes around the globe, there is a pressing need for genuine elucidation of Muslim moral values and norms, especially in migration contexts. These rapid changes raise questions about the conservation of the ‘self’ and the adaptation of norms and values to [...]

englischEgypt is one of the regions with the highest prevalence of female genital cutting (FGC): 87% of women aged 15 to 49 have been subjected to FGC. So-called female circumcision has continuously been legitimised with both religious and health reasons. At the same time, medical practitioners, [...]