englischSince 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 [...]

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 [...]

englischIn this publication, a literal and a free translation of Arabic proverbs and idioms into German are examined comparatively in order to show various influencing factors in the transmission process and their effects on the meaning. The different social, cultural and historical background of an [...]

englischThis first introduction to cultural semiotics presents culture as a symbol-based program with which a society (re)shapes its living environment. It becomes clear how the respective objectives of shaping the world emerge from the purposeful use of its central figures of thought. Illustrative [...]

englischThe poet Rainer Maria Gerhardt (1927–1954), who died young, was a solitaire. At a time when West German literature was only hesitantly discovering the new, he revealed unknown horizons. His translations and publishing projects presented post-war Germans with poetry from all parts of the [...]