The “Parting of the Ways” between Jews and Christians has only recently been extended to the question as to whether the Gospel Source Q still has to be considered “Jewish”. Especially the question of polemics seems to be ...

For the right understanding of the Sayings Source Q not only the relation to early Judaism but also the social “landscape” in which the texts evolved is undeniably crucial. Here results of Galilean Archeology are brought ...

Ibn Aybak ad-Dumyaṭī was an historian specialized in recording the scholarly lives of the learned men of his generation. His most important work of this genre was at-Tarāǧim al-ǧalīla al-ǧaliyya wa-l-ašyāḫ al-ʿāliya ...

This book contributes to the history of medieval Jewry in general, as a basis for a comparative study of the position of the Jews in Christian Europe in the Late Middle Ages. The eight articles written by leading experts ...

Moderne Imaginationen vormoderner Herrschaftsübergänge sind von der Idee des Vater-Sohn-Übergangs geprägt, da Patrilinearität für Vorstellungen legitimer Herrschaft in vormodernen Kulturen eine große Rolle spielt. Jedoch ...

Kein Herrscher regiert alleine, sondern nur im Verbund mit anderen. Nach heutigen Vorstellungen scheinen sich vormoderne Ordnungen jedoch immer noch durch die formale Unbeschränktheit der Entscheidungsgewalt ihrer ...

The general field of study of this volume is the history and culture of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517). It contains the proceedings of the First German-Japanese Workshop held at the Toyo Bunko in Tokyo, Japan. The authors ...

The only Arabic voice to have witnessed the Ottoman conquest of Cairo, Ibn Iyās, is an eminent historical source for the late Mamluk period. This book is the first to take stock of the author’s complete works, approaching ...

Research on the Mamluk period has so far remained relatively silent about the Mamluk descendants, who are often referred to by the Arabic term awlād al-nās (roughly: children of the elite). After Ulrich Haarmann’s fundamental ...