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 [...]