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        May 2014

        Araber als Teil der hellenistisch-römischen und christlichen Welt.

        Wurzeln orientalistischer Betrachtung und gegenwärtiger Konflikte: von Alexander dem Großen bis zur islamischen Eroberung.

        by Al-Ani, Ayad

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2026

        Rodrigo Ximenez de Rada’s Minor Histories

        by Aymenn Al-Tamimi

        This work provides the first complete English translation of works by Toledan archbishop Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada (1170-1247 CE), whose 'Minor Histories' are sequels to his larger 'Gothic History' and thus round off his grand history of Spain project that he began at the request of King Ferdinand III. The 'Minor Histories' include Rodrigo's 'History of the Arabs' that can be considered the first surviving Western monograph focused on Arab and Islamic history and thus occupies a unique position in the medieval Latin corpus of writings. In addition to the translation, this book provides a thorough and accessible introduction to the life and works of Rodrigo, making sense of the context in which he wrote and his historical method. The translations are thoroughly annotated including cross-references to other Latin and Arabic sources for comparison.

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        October 2021

        Der Koran

        Bd. 2/2: Spätmittelmekkanische Suren. Von Mekka nach Jerusalem – Der spirituelle Weg der Gemeinde heraus aus säkularer Indifferenz und apokalyptischem Pessimismus. Handkommentar

        by Angelika Neuwirth, Angelika Neuwirth, Dirk Hartwig

        Mit den spätmittelmekkanischen Suren schaltet sich die Verkündigung in die Zeitgeschichte ein, die von der Krise der byzantinischen Niederlage gegen das sassanidische Persien im Jahr 614 erschüttert ist. Die Suren dieser Periode antworten kritisch sowohl auf eine christliche, messianisch geprägte Erlösungslehre als auch auf den jüdischen Messianismus. Zeitgenössisch ubiquitäre apokalyptische Erwartungen werden durch Verschweigen entwertet oder gar ironisch banalisiert. Als Gegenbild zum erwarteten messianischen Herrscher wird das politische Ideal des ›gerechten Herrschers‹ entwickelt – mit der durchscheinenden pragmatischen Intention, dem byzantischen Kaiser Herakleios den Spiegel vorzuhalten. Ein immer stringenter werdender Monotheismus bildet sich in der kritischen bis satirischen Behandlung eines zeitgenössisch vieldiskutierten Wunders (Siebenschläfer) ab, das in ein Zeichen korrigiert wird. Liturgisch gewinnt nun Gottes Königtum besonderes Gewicht, wobei seine Herrschaft auch die Dämonen einbegreift, die sich nun aus ›inspirierenden Geistern‹ zu bedrohlichen Kräften entwickelt haben. Sie sind nur durch sprachliche Mittel, eigene apotropäische Formeln (Sure 114) oder Koranrezitation (Sure 72), abzuwehren. Die spätmittelmekkanischen Suren weisen sich so als tief in der sozialen und politischen Wirklichkeit verwurzelt aus und fordern damit einen neuen methodologischen Zugang, die prioritäre Beachtung des ›Sitzes im Leben‹ der koranischen Aussagen.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2026

        Children’s rights in crisis

        Multidisciplinary, transnational, and comparative perspectives

        by Salvador Santino Regilme

        This book rigorously investigates the contemporary state of children's rights and the multifaceted challenges facing children, uncovering the complexities at their core. In 1989, the United Nations introduced the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), ratified by 196 nations, promising a world where children's rights would reign supreme. In practice, however, realising these rights proves intricate and often precarious. Policies may shine on paper, but their implementation grapples with the challenges posed by global governance structures, national strategies, and local factors. Over three decades since the CRC's inception, this book scrutinises the true efficacy of international commitments, shedding light on underexplored issues and revealing shortcomings in both discourse and actions. With diverse, interdisciplinary perspectives, it recognises the profound influence of global and transnational forces in generating outcomes that impact children's rights and welfare. An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2024

        Children’s rights in crisis

        Multidisciplinary, transnational, and comparative perspectives

        by Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr.

        This book rigorously investigates the contemporary state of children's rights and the multifaceted challenges facing children, uncovering the complexities at their core. In 1989, the United Nations introduced the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), ratified by 196 nations, promising a world where children's rights would reign supreme. In practice, however, realising these rights proves intricate and often precarious. Policies may shine on paper, but their implementation grapples with the challenges posed by global governance structures, national strategies, and local factors. Over three decades since the CRC's inception, this book scrutinises the true efficacy of international commitments, shedding light on underexplored issues and revealing shortcomings in both discourse and actions. With diverse, interdisciplinary perspectives, it recognises the profound influence of global and transnational forces in generating outcomes that impact children's rights and welfare.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2026

        United States and Chinese foreign assistance and diplomacy

        Aid for dominance

        by Salvador Santino Regilme, Obert Hodzi

        Aid for Dominance addresses the analytic weaknesses of mainstream analysis of foreign aid, which often focuses on its material dimensions. The book underscores the constitutive relationship between foreign aid as a material resource and the diplomatic discourses and practices that constitute complex bilateral relations between donor and recipient states. Written by two leading scholars of contemporary United States and Chinese foreign policies in the Global South, Aid for Dominance offers a pioneering, theoretically conscious, and empirically rich account of the two great powers' grand strategies in the global development sector. By deploying a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis, this book draws from a wide range of evidentiary materials from primary sources, including data from fieldwork interviews, government documents, local and international newspapers, speeches by high-ranking government officials and diplomats, and secondary data from scholarly publications and policy papers.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2013

        The world of El Cid

        Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest

        by Simon Barton, Richard Fletcher

        Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of the kings of León-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando I (1037-65), his son Alfonso VI (1065-1109) and the latter's grandson Alfonso VII (1126-57). The fourth chronicle is a biography of the hero Rodrigo Díaz, better remembered as El Cid, and is the main source of information about his extraordinary career as a mercenary soldier who fought for Christian and Muslim alike. Covers the fascinating interaction of the Muslim and Christian worlds, each at the height of their power. Each text is prefaced by its own introduction and accompanied by explanatory notes.

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        August 1988

        Gedichte für Städtebewohner

        Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort von Franco Buono

        by Bertolt Brecht, Franco Buono, Franco Buono

        Seit den Anfängen der Massengesellschaft im 19. Jahrhundert ist sie nicht mehr aus der ›lyrischen‹ Produktion wegzudenken: die Stadt. Vervielfältigung wie Zerstörung menschlicher Beziehungen, Befreiung von (dörflicher) Naturbornierung und Zerstörung natürlicher Bedürfnisse, kurz: Faszination und Grauen sind die Pole dieses genuin ›modernen‹ Motivs. Seine raffiniertesten Versionen verschränken beides: entdecken die Trauer des Berauschenden großer Städte und die Faszination noch ihres Unmenschlichen. Auch Brechts Stadt-Gedichte sind, obwohl gewiß das Trostlose und Unmenschliche akzentuierend, nicht ohne eine solche dialektische Kehrseite. Denn ihre gesellschaftliche Hoffnung wie ihre didaktische Maxime ist, daß »die tiefste Verzweiflung die Bedingung für die Rettung« ist – so Franco Buono, der diese Auswahl zusammengestellt hat. Buonos Nachwort hebt das Besondere von Brechts Stadt-Gedichten hervor und skizziert die Geschichte des Stadt-Motivs in Brechts Werk.

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        Constitution: government & the state
        July 2013

        Theory and reform in the EU

        by Chryssochoou Et Al

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