englischOne of the hallmarks of the Arabic literature of the Mamluk era is the very frequent use of semantic ambiguity, a rhetorical tool that saw its final theorisation in this period and the emergence of the canonical form that still appears in rhetorical treatises today: tawriya. After the 1966 [...]

englischThe study investigates Greek and Ottoman archival material, and presents to the reader hitherto unexplored aspects of the history of Nicosia during the last century of Ottoman rule on the island. It also clarifies issues concerning its history in earlier centuries, reaching as far back as [...]

englischHow much tradition is there in the avant-garde? Is everything that is claimed to be new really new? Literary Expressionism (the most important avant-garde movement of Classical Modernism), which was and still is generally considered to be the epoch of "broken forms", claimed this for itself: [...]

„Resilienz“ ist heute ein Modewort. Doch das Phänomen existierte bereits vor seinem Begriff, und zwar als eine Grundeigenschaft des Menschen. Die Resilienzforschung arbeitet psychische „Schutzfaktoren“ heraus, die Belastungen durch Stresssituationen mindern und dabei helfen, Widerstandskräfte [...]

englischThe work offers a re-evaluation of Avicenna's commentary on Aristotle's Poetics and opens up interpretive scope for Classicists, Arabists, and philosophers alike by focusing on the question of how Avicenna situated the commentary within his own philosophical system. The work takes its [...]

englischThe 10th-century "Book of the Garden" (Kitāb ar-Rauḍa) by the Andalusian Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī's stands out from the Arabic alchemical literature with its clear theoretical explanations enriched with allegorical depictions. The tradition-historical study, critical edition, and German [...]

englischDespite its undisputed place in the canon of the avant-garde, Oswald Wiener's „die verbesserung von mitteleuropa, roman“ remains, half a century after its publication, a riddle in need of interpretation. As part of his work on the first complete translation of the „verbesserung“ (into [...]