Die Entblößung der Wörter

aš-Šidyāqs literarische Listen als Kultur- und Gesellschaftskritik im 19. Jahrhundert

How do word lists matter for Arabic literature? From the perspective of Literary and Cultural Studies, this monograph approaches the literary word lists of Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq (1805/1806–1887), one of the most important Arab intellectuals of the nineteenth century, and …

Georgische Handschriften

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Few languages ​​in the world look back on more than 1500 years of uninterrupted written tradition – Georgian, the language of the Christian country south of the Caucasus, is one of them. Since their Christianisation in the fourth century, Georgians, …

Cultural Interactions in Medieval Georgia

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Situated between the mountain ranges of the Caucasus, the country of Georgia was constantly exposed to contacts with both nearby cultures and such far-away realities as the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Europe. Constant political changes, including relations to and occupations …