The present thesis focuses on thirty-seven official Almohad letters written in the 12th and 13th centuiries. The time of the Almohad Empire (1147-1268) has been a fascinating and rich period in the history of the Islamic ...

This thesis treats the placement of clitics in Czech from a constraint-based perspective. After having established the set of unambiguous second-position clitics in the language, the placement patterns and their interaction ...

Al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī Ibn Abī ʿAqīl al-ʿUmānī and Muḥammad b. Aḥmad Ibn al-Junayd al-Iskāfī ― later known by the honorary title “al-Qadīmān” (The Two Ancient Scholars) ― are said to be among the central figures in the development ...

The primary claim of my doctoral dissertation is that the development of the urban policies against the recurrent epidemics of the plague had simultaneously engendered the social construction of the plague as a disease, ...

Around 1800, the newly discovered ancient Indian culture attracted a great deal of attention, especially in German-speaking countries, and led to various reactions. But contemporary India also continued to be of interest. ...

The central aim of this thesis was firstly to reconstruct the socio-cultural field within which dramatic plays were originally produced between the year of Shakespeare's death in 1616 and the fatal closure of all playhouses ...

As poetics of the blog this study combines a theoretical approach (Poetologie) with different showcases of autobiographical writing in blogs (Schreibweisen). Poetologie focuses initially on the medium of the blog, which ...

This study examines the works of four British women poets of South Asian descent—Imtiaz Dharker, Moniza Alvi, Raman Mundair, and Shamshad Khan—within the socio-historical context of early 21st-century Britain. It investigates ...

Synods of preachers had been established in the wake of church visitations at the end of the 17th century, both as a necessity for pastor training and for church supervision of the preachers had been established. Based on ...

Diese Arbeit ist durch zwei gegenläufige Überlegungen motiviert. Es wird in der Regel fast als eine Selbstverständlichkeit angesehen, Descartes in Verbindung mit dem Problem des Skeptizismus ...