englischThis study discusses the historical and (power-) political backgrounds as well as the legally and theologically questionable justification of the historically unique constitutional amendment with which the Pakistani parliament excommunicated Ahmadi Muslims from Islam—a decision wholly at [...]
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englisch‘Should medicine be allowed to do everything it can?’. This question is the focus of today's bioethics discussions and indicates that medical research and practice are engaged in a complex reciprocal relationship between natural science (i.e. what medicine can do), legal regulations (what [...]
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englisch‘Should medicine be allowed to do everything it can?’. This question is the focus of today's bioethics discussions and indicates that medical research and practice are engaged in a complex reciprocal relationship between natural science (i.e. what medicine can do), legal regulations (what [...]
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englischThis publication explores the presence of the shared heritage and interdependence of poetry composed around the theme of wine in diverse literary traditions of the Islamic world. The specialist contributions discuss multiple aspects of the literary polyphony of wine in the pre-modern Arabic, [...]
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Die Untersuchung widmet sich den Repräsentationen des Islam und von Muslimen in Lesebüchern des Nationalsozialismus, der DDR und der Bundesrepublik (1935–1964/65). Es werden Lesebücher für die Volksschule (NS, BRD) und für die Grund- sowie die Polytechnische Oberschule (DDR) untersucht. Näher [...]
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englischThis volume, which was published in cooperation with the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris, discusses surrealism in literature and art in Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey between the 1930s and 1980s. Surrealism emerged as a movement in art and literature in Europe in the [...]
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Die Untersuchung widmet sich den Repräsentationen des Islam und von Muslimen in Lesebüchern des Nationalsozialismus, der DDR und der Bundesrepublik (1935–1964/65). Es werden Lesebücher für die Volksschule (NS, BRD) und für die Grund- sowie die Polytechnische Oberschule (DDR) untersucht. Näher [...]
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englischChina and its rise as Eastern hegemon is both, a geostrategic and economic phenomenon. China challenges the West – what is Europe’s role and position towards China? The editor’s volume “Dragon Games” combines contributions from the fields of cultural studies with insights from international [...]
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englischThrough this work, one can find a new way of interpreting Yoko Tawada's work and a new perspective on power analysis and self-play for intercultural literary studies. On the one hand, the book deals with the violent subject constitution under three kinds of power mechanisms in texts of [...]
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englischIn "Der ṭarab der Sängersklavinnen", Yasemin Gökpınar presents a text critical edition of the three known manuscripts of the 10th chapter of Ibn Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī’s (died 749/1349) "Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār". In this monograph, she provides an unprecedented commented German [...]
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