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The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran
Christoph Luxenberg - 2007
A Contribution to the Decoding of the Koran - This book approaches the Koran with the tools of modern scientific philology, and outlines a method to shed light onto koranic passages that are among those counted as 'dark' or 'mysterious'. Revised and expanded translation of the wave-making German original. - The most fascinating book ever written on the language of the Koran, and if proved to be correct in its main thesis, probably the most important book ever written on the Koran. (The Guardian)... more »
The Spectrum of Islamist Movements
Al-Ahram Center for Strategic and Political Studies - 2007
The Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies (Cairo) introduces this study series of Islamist movements with a novel and felicitous taxonomy of the Islamist spectrum. Several well-known groups, influential works and thinkers are scrutinized in detail and - a rare exception not only for an English-language work - have their practice and worldview cautiously juxtaposed with mainstream orthodox Islamic positions. This book does not only provide data about its subjects, which would make it one of many: more cruciall... more »
Arabic in Chains
Robert Marzari - 2006
Structural Problems and Artificial Barriers - What distinguishes Marzari's work is his ability to explain complicated matters in clear and even entertaining language. Linguists often cut a poor figure here, given their propensity to gallop non-stop through the brushwood of grammar. Not so Marzari. He illustrates the potentials and limits of a language that over 300 million Muslims in the Middle East call their mother tongue, aside from the many others elsewhere in Africa as well as in Asia, who recite Arabic as the language ... more »
Who Cares About Somalia
Hassan Ali Jama - 2005
Hassan's Ordeal - Reflections on a Nation's Future - This book is about a Somali civil war and the fall of the Siad Barre regime. It is about how people living there at the time did really suffer from it as a result. Although it principally relates to a family,the book tells an applicable story of flight, provisional shelter and finally exile. It is also about the political history of Somalia and about Somali ethnicity in general, and the book discusses the future of the Nation and how international and regional powers are i... more »
Unterwegs am Golf Along the Gulf
Annegret Nippa / Peter Herbstreuth - 2005
Von Basra bis Maskat - Photographien von Hermann Burchardt. Deutsch-Englisch. 90 Abb., 1 Karte - Burchardt liebte sein Leben als Kaufmann nicht. Nach dem Tod seines Vaters benutzte er sein kleines Erbe, um Privatier zu sein. Doch zog es ihn hinaus in die Welt. Auf seine Abenteuer bereitete er sich vor, indem er die Sprachen der Bewohner an Afrikas Küsten, Suaheli, und in Arabiens Wüsten erlernte. So ging er in den Orient. Bald, 1903, reiste er den Persischen Golf entlang, in hundert Tagen von Basra nach Maskat. Diese Reise... more »
Handbook of Arabic Dictionaries
Abit Yasar Koçak - 2002
This book is a brief guide to Arabic dictionaries. It aims on assisting learners of Arabic to cope with the difficulties that encounter with the various dictionary movements over centuries. The dictionary movement mainly developed over three centuries between the end of the II. Century of the Hegira and the end of the IV. Century, in accordance with their respective leaders and their works: Madrasah al-Taklîbât, a school established by al-Khalîl - ... more »
Somalia's Development
Jörg Janzen (ed.) - 1999
What are Somalia's Development Perspectives? Science between Resignation and Hope? - Proceedings of the 6th SSIA-Congress: With contributions by Franz Ansprenger, Mohamed Haji Mukhtar, Faduma Awow Mohamed, Ulrich Scholz, Jörg Janzen a.o.... more »
Civil Society in the Middle East
Amr Hamzawy (ed.) - 2003
The internal Arab, Iranian and Israeli debates on civil society in the 1980s and 1990s have only partly found their way into Western studies on the issue. An analysis of the discursive structures of the local debates, which represents the major objective of the current edited volume, may help shifting the nexus of the academic discussion to Middle Eastern perceptions and actors. Amr Hamzawy analyses the Arab sociological and political discussion on civil society, depending on the intellectual literature of the last ten years... more »
Identifying Aids among the Maasai of Tanzania
Aud Talle - 2004
Cultural models and modern realities - ... more »
Un-selfish genes?
Erdmute Alber / Georg Elwert - 2004
Preferential upbringing of adopted and genetically distant children as a stable pattern among the Baatombu in the precolonial Slave Coast, Dahomey and modern Bénin - ... more »
Demand Limiting the Implementation of National Law
Erdmute Alber / Jörn Sommer - 2003
An Analysis of Legal Reality, Disputing and Legitimacy in a Baatombu Village in Bénin - The gap between national law and legal reality is a phenomenon which can be witnessed in many African states. This phenomenon is based on the fact that states cannot or will not enforce national law, which is legitimised by democratic procedures, simply by means of force. Reasons for this are the state's lack of organisational and material resources on the one hand, the population's possibilities of resistance and escape on the other han... more »
Forestry Corruption and Illegal Logging in Bénin
Georg Elwert / Ute Siebert - 2002
A Policy Oriented Analysis - ... more »
Kinship and Gender
Dorothea E. Schulz / Harold W. Scheffler / Georg Pfeffer - 2000
The Politics of Violent Action
Julia Eckert / Georg Elwert - 2000
Towards a Sociology of Anti-Democratic Movements - ... more »
Landtenure in Uzbekistan
Julia Eckert / Georg Elwert - 2000
Obscure Powers - Obscuring Ethnographies
Dorothea E. Schulz - 2000
Status and Social Identities in Mande Society - ... more »
The Night in the Construction of the Manus World
Götz Höppe - 2000
Territorial displacement and moral relocation
Dorothea Schulz - 1999
Voices and images of womanhood in televised Ladili performances in Mali - ... more »
Riots. That's something that happens in the slums
Julia Eckert - 1999
Land, städtische Unruhen und die Politik der Segregation (Bombay, Indien) - ... more »
Oromiya Regional State
Thomas Zitelmann - 1999
Äthiopien 1997. Bericht aus der Konfliktforschung - ... more »
Gender Roles and Religious Ideology and Ritual in Muslim Society
Margarete Rausch - 1999
Patriarchy and Subordinate Discourse in Morocco - ... more »
Dancing Aids
Peter Probst - 1995
Moral Discourses and Ritual Authority in Central Malawi - ... more »
Changing Certainties and the Move to a Global Religion
Georg Elwert - 1995
Medical Knowldege and Islamization among the Anii (Baseda) in the Republic of Bénin - ... more »
Delivered from the powers of darkness
Birgit Meyer - 1995
Geständnisse über den teuflischen Reichtum im christlichen Ghana - ... more »
The Question of Bazwezi Revisited
Edward L. Steinhard - 1994
Of Artists and Connoisseurs
Sally Price - 1991
Cultural Authority Cross-Cultural Contexts - ... more »
The Prison House of Culture in the Study of Turks in Germany
Ayse S. Caglar - 1990
From Spree to Harlem
Malgorzata Irek - 1990
German 19th Century Anti-Racist Ethnology and the Cultural Revival of the American Blacks - ... more »
The early Social History of Zulu Migrant Workers Choral Musik in South Africa
Veit Erlmann - 1990
The World Bank and Capitalist Agricultural Development
Duro Oniemola - 1989
The Case of Ilorin Agricultural Development Project in Nigeria - ... more »
Carrion and corpses
Shalini Randeria - 1989
Conflict in categorizing untouchability in Gujarat - ... more »
An intricate oral culture
Georg Elwert - 1989
On history, humor and social control among the Ayizo (Benin) - ... more »
In the Field
Robin Ostow - 1989
Finding a Woman's Place in Sardinia - ... more »
Demographic Background of Generation-Set Systems in East Africa
Harald Müller - 1988
The Toposa Example - ... more »
Colonial Agricultural Policy and Peasant Reaction
R.O. Lasisi - 1988
The Case of French Togo, 1922-1945 - ... more »
The Lebanese of West Africa
Marina Rais - 1988
An Example of a Trading Diaspora - ... more »
The Letter and the Spirit
Peter Probst - 1987
Literacy and Religious Authority in the History of the Aladura Movement in Western - ... more »
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Gerd-R. Puin / Karl-Heinz Ohlig (Hg.): Die dunklen Anfänge (2007)
Robert Marzari: Fesselndes Arabisch (2009)
Sead Husic: Psychopathologie der Macht (2007)
Awat Asadi: Der Kurdistan-Irak-Konflikt (2007)
Ralph Ghadban: Tariq Ramadan und die Islamisierung Europas (2006)
Patricia Ober: Der Frauen neue Kleider (2005)