Die Grenzen der Welt
Applying different methods on a broad range of sources, the present book attempts to transcend the limits between disciplines of Oriental Studies in twenty articles dedicated to the scholar Heinz Gaube. Focusing on cultural connections between the Arab and the Iranian world, its geographical scope ranges from the Nile to the Syr-Darya. Covering a chronological span from pre-Islamic times to the present, the articles in this book deal with different aspects of cultural history in the Islamic East.
Applying different methods on a broad range of sources, the present book attempts to transcend the limits between disciplines of Oriental Studies in twenty articles dedicated to the scholar Heinz Gaube. Focusing on cultural connections between the Arab and the Iranian world, its geographical scope ranges from the Nile to the Syr-Darya. Covering a chronological span from pre-Islamic times to the present, the articles in this book deal with different aspects of cultural history in the Islamic East. Die Grenzen zwischen Disziplinen der Orientalistik durch die Anwendung verschiedenster Forschungstechniken auf eine breite Palette von Quellen zu überschreiten, ist ein Anliegen dieses Buches. Seine zwanzig Beiträge sind dem Wissenschaftler Heinz Gaube gewidmet. Sie heben die kulturgeschichtlichen Verbindungen zwischen der arabischen und iranischen Welt hervor. Der geographische und chronologische Rahmen erstreckt sich dabei vom Nil bis zum Syr-Darya und von vorislamischer Zeit bis in die Gegenwart.
| ISBN: | 9783895006753 |
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| Sprache: | Deutsch |
| Seitenzahl: | 324 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Korn, Lorenz Orthmann, Eva Schwarz, Florian |
| Verlag: | Reichert, L |
| Veröffentlicht: | 13.02.2009 |
| Untertitel: | Arabica et Iranica ad honorem Heinz Gaube |
| Schlagworte: | Arabische Welt Geographie Iran Islam Islamische Kunstgeschichte Kulturgeographie Kulturgeschichte Kunstgeschichte Orient Vorderer Orient. allgemein |
Lorenz Korn has read Islamic studies, art history and political science at the Universities of Tübingen and Oxford. Since 2003, he is professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Bamberg. His main fields of research are architecture and architectural decoration of the Islamic heartlands (11th to 16th cent.), metalwork from the Iranian world, and Arabic epigraphy. Eva Orthmann has read Islamic studies, Iranian studies and Arabic studies at the Universities of Tübingen and Halle. Since 2007, she is professor of Islamic studies at the University of Bonn. Her main fields of research are the history of science, especially astrology, Islam in India, and tribal structures in the early Islamic centuries. Florian Schwarz has read Islamic studies and Iranian studies at the University of Tübingen. Since 2005 he teaches History of the Middle East at the University of Washington in Seattle. His main fields of research are the cultural history of the early modern Middle East, the history of Central Asia, and Islamic numismatics and codicology.