„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 [...]

englischHardly any literary work of Classical Modernism is as well documented in its genesis as that of the Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931). This workshop report is the first to systematically examine the diverse textual interrelationships in the author's oeuvre. Three case studies on [...]

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 [...]

englischŠamsaddīn an-Nawāǧī (788–859/1386–1455) was an outstanding poet and a successful author of anthologies. As many authors of the Mamluk period he has been largely neglected by scholarship. An-Nawāǧī’s oeuvre includes treatises on grammar and prosody, an extensive and widely received Dīwān, and [...]

englischWho were the participants in the ‘Cosmic Round’ that made Schwabing a magical place around 1900? And what can the ‘Cosmics’ still tell us today? The contributions in this conference volume address these questions. Their aim is to revive research on the mystical tendencies of Munich's [...]

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 [...]

englischThis study examines the production of knowledge on Tripolitania, Benghazi and Fezzan by the late Ottoman state, the ways in which local subjects and imperial officials communicated and what kind of agency they had. They operated in a continuum between a discourse of civilisation and complete [...]

Der Band knüpft an die 1995 (als Bd. 1 der Reihe) erschienene Aufsatzsammlung „Religionssoziologie um 1900“ an. Ebenso wie sein Vorgänger behandelt der Band anhand von Fallstudien ausgewählte Probleme der Geschichte der Religionssoziologie, darunter das Verhältnis der Religionssoziologie zu [...]