englischThe book describes the confusing, contradictory and individualized musicscape in Turkey around the turn of the twenty-first century, including its prehistory throughout the twentieth century and sometimes beyond. Its focus lies on the recent tendency towards a disintegration of musical [...]

englischBorn in Tlemcen and educated in Damascus, the fourteenth-century Arab litterateur Ibn Abī Ḥaǧalah (725-776/1325-1375) spent most of his adult life in Mamluk Cairo. His best-known works are Sukkardān as-sulṭān (The Sultan’s Sugar Box) and Dīwān aṣ-ṣabābah (The Register of Passionate Love), [...]

englisch"Performing Religion" investigates the relationship between texts, actors, and contexts in the study of Islam. Research in Islamic Studies to date has taken texts primarily as a medium of information. This volume emphasizes the material quality of texts, both written and oral. It focuses on [...]

englischThe present edited volume is based in part on papers that were delivered at an international conference, which was held at the American University of Beirut (AUB) on 5–6 December 2013 and was organized by the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) in association with the Center for Arab and Middle [...]

englischUrsula Paszehr has conducted field research in the rural and Bedouin society of Jordan for many years, and she has collected vast amounts of material on the enactment and oral poetry and prose of lamentation. The female lament, niyāḥa, is an ancient ritual found in the Middle East and [...]

Der vorliegende Band vereinigt die kritische Edition der Kriegserinnerungen von Ernst Adolf Mueller (1898-1990) mit einer wissenschaftlichen Studie über deutsche Soldaten im Vorderen Orient während des Ersten Weltkrieges. Neben deren Alltagserfahrungen untersucht der Band erstmals den dortigen [...]

Die Studie stellt den intergenerativen Wandel innerhalb aufstiegsorientierter türkischer Familien in Duisburg dar. Anhand biographisch-narrativer Interviews mit Eltern, welche als Arbeitnehmer*innen nach Deutschland gekommen sind, und ihren (erwachsenen) Kindern wird skizziert, wie die jeweilige [...]