englischThe book deals with the discourse of a spiritual medicine in Arabic-Islamic sources of the pre-modern period. The focus is on a 13th-century writing: "The Cheering of the Soul" (Mufarriḥ an-nafs) by the Damascene physician Ibn Qāḍī Baʿalbakk, a scholar in the tradition of Ibn Sinā. Based on [...]
more informationenglischThis is the first-ever biography of the Victorian journalist, newspaper editor and travel writer Andrew Wilson (1830–1881). Born in Bombay, he was educated in the universities of Edinburgh and Tübingen, subsequently editing various newspapers in Bombay, Karachi and Hongkong. A prolific [...]
more informationenglischFrom its discovery in the mid-18th century onwards, the black-glazed pottery of ancient Greece set several trends in the history of taste in Europe. This was also especially true in the Victorian era, which took a systematic interest in copying not only shapes and décors of the pots but also [...]
more informationenglischSince 1993, Osama bin Laden and al-Qáida have carried out a series of terrible Islamist terrorist attacks - on the World Trade Center 1, the US warship Cole, the World Trade Center 2 (11 September), hotels in Bali, synagogues in Istanbul, railways in Madrid and Casablanca, to name just a few [...]
more informationenglischIn June 2009, US president Barack Obama travelled to Cairo to seek a ‘new beginning’ in the Middle East. Beyond people’s hopes and disappointments, Nils E. Lukacs takes the Obama’s historical idea under the magnifying glass. Asking what was ‘new’, what was ‘old’, and how the ‘new beginning’ [...]
more informationenglischIn June 2009, US president Barack Obama travelled to Cairo to seek a ‘new beginning’ in the Middle East. Beyond people’s hopes and disappointments, Nils E. Lukacs takes the Obama’s historical idea under the magnifying glass. Asking what was ‘new’, what was ‘old’, and how the ‘new beginning’ [...]
more informationenglischFrom its discovery in the mid-18th century onwards, the black-glazed pottery of ancient Greece set several trends in the history of taste in Europe. This was also especially true in the Victorian era, which took a systematic interest in copying not only shapes and décors of the pots but also [...]
more informationenglischThe study of ancient heroes in film provides an eminent contribution to our understanding of the present by identifying the upheavals, conflicts, crises and resolution strategies that manifest themselves in heroic figures. This volume approaches heroizations by examining political leadership [...]
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englischThis is the first-ever biography of the Victorian journalist, newspaper editor and travel writer Andrew Wilson (1830–1881). Born in Bombay, he was educated in the universities of Edinburgh and Tübingen, subsequently editing various newspapers in Bombay, Karachi and Hongkong. A prolific [...]
more informationenglischProvincial theatres have so far been largely ignored by researchers, although they were cultural centres of entire regions in the 19th century: In these theatres, the population could meet, engage in social activities such as gambling and exchange views on socio-political events. This [...]
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