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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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englisch„Die Verwandlung des Knaben Kai“ is a novel written by Ernst Michalski, a German-Jewish art historian of the years of the Weimar Republic, who was one of the founder of the reception theory. His category of the „aesthetic boundary“ has become a key-concept of the terminology of art history. [...]
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Die Islamische Republik Iran ist an den gewohnheitsrechtlichen Inhalt der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte gebunden. In der Verfassung Irans gelten Gleichheitsrechte jedoch nur für Musliminnen und Muslime. Auch wird der Schutz durch das Gesetz in der Verfassung den BürgerInnen der [...]
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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, [...]
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englischThe Franconian Friedrich Rückert is not only one of the most productive German-language poets of the 19th century, but also one of the most important mediators between the literatures of the Orient and the Occident in Europe because of his numerous translations. He was able to read a total [...]
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Die Arbeit untersucht umfassend die Auswirkungen des Dreißigjährigen Krieges auf die geistliche Residenzstadt Bamberg. Untersuchungsgegenstand sind zentrale Bereiche wie Politik, Finanzen, Militär, Bauwesen, Demographie und Handel. Neben den Kriegsjahren erfahren dabei die bisher oft nicht [...]
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„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 [...]
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