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SEEBACHER Felicitas

Die Leskys

Akademische Karrieren in den Netzwerken der politischen Systeme des 20. Jahrhunderts

The classical philologist Albin Lesky and the physician and historian of medicine, Erna Lesky, née Klingenstein, embodied the successful "dual-career couple" internationally. Their academic careers were influenced by various political systems, structures and functioning. To what extent were they, representatives of their generation, willing to use individual room for manoeuvring to achieve success in the scientific community? Albin Lesky, appointed prorector of the University in Innsbruck in...

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SARTORI Paolo

A Soviet Sultanate

Islam in Socialist Uzbekistan (1943‒1991)

“A Soviet Sultanate” is the first English-language social history of Islam in Soviet Central Asia after WWII, and it focuses on a key question: what did it mean to be a Muslim in Socialist Uzbekistan? The notion that in the eyes of many Soviet citizens Socialist Uzbekistan was an abode of Islam forms the book’s framing device for understanding how the atheist project of the Soviet empire ultimately failed, but also how it simultaneously helped shape the range of meanings of Muslimness. The...

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ABDURASULOV Ulfat (Ed.)

Notes on the Present State of the Khanate of Khiva by the Head of the Amu-Darya Department Colonel Nil Lykoshin, 1912

Edited, Translated and Annotated by Ulfat Abdurasulov

This book presents a textual edition and English translation of an important historical source about the Khanate of Khiva. The text was written in 1912 by N.S. Lykoshin (1860–1922), a Russian colonial officer and renowned Orientalist. In his capacity as Commandant of the Amu-Darya Department (ADO), an administrative-territorial unit within the Turkestan Governor-Generalship, Lykoshin was tasked with overseeing affairs in the Khanate of Khiva, which since the Russian takeover of 1873 had been a...

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SCHMÜCKER Marcus (Ed.)

Viṣṇu-Nārāyaṇa

Changing Forms and the Becoming of a Deity in Indian Religious Traditions

The contributions in this volume address the complex history of the Indian deity Viṣṇu-Nārāyaṇa, whose conception evolved across various traditions in India, particularly in South India, during the first millennium CE. This development is reconstructed through philological exegesis, the history of ideas, and iconographic evidence. Contributors examine a range of textual materials in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Maṇipravāḷa, including early Caṅkam literature (3rd–6th century CE), the Vaiṣṇava text...

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MAVER Igor

Letters by the Slovenian Missionary Marcus Antonius Kappus to the Habsburg Monarchy Including the 1701 Map of California as a Peninsula

The book contextualizes and analyzes the unknown or unpublished writings of the Carniolan-Slovenian Jesuit missionary Marcus Antonius Kappus (1657–1717). He is the first Carniolan known to have been sent as a Jesuit missionary to the Spanish Viceroyalty of “Nueva España” in North America. Kappus originally applied to serve as a missionary in the Orient, but was selected and sent to Sonora in Mexico, bordering today with the federal state of Arizona in the United States of America, instead. The...

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ZACHARASIEWICZ Waldemar (Ed.) |

BIRKLE Carmen (Ed.) |

PRISCHING Manfred (Ed.)

Polarization in North America

European Perspectives

We are currently confronted with disconcerting signs of polarization in the societies of many democratic countries of North America and Europe. The storm on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, is only the tip of the iceberg of such developments. Conflicts are manifest between the generations and the genders, between ethnic groups in individual countries and between religious denominations, between migrants and the residents of countries, between the so-called elite and the average citizens,...

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ROSS Danielle |

KUSSAINOVA Meiramgul

Voices from the Steppe

A Thematic Sourcebook of the Kazakh Steppe and the South Urals

"Voices from the Steppe" presents 101 sources on the history of the Kazakh Steppe and Russia’s South Urals region from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It offers a range of texts—local histories, songs, poems, letters, memoirs, religious-legal writings, and official documents—that shed light on politics, culture, spirituality, economic activities, gender, and daily life in one of the world’s great grasslands. The volume foregrounds the voices and experiences of ethnic non-Russians in...

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WERNER Martina (Ed.) |

DRESSLER Wolfgang U. (Ed.)

Between Derivation and Inflection

The differentiation of derivation and inflection within morphology is a classical and always challenging topos of linguistics – both for individual languages and from a contrastive perspective. With ten recent contributions from different disciplines (language history, variational linguistics, language acquisition research), but also from different methodological perspectives of various disciplines (e.g. Arabic studies, Finno-Ugric studies, German studies, Romance studies), this edited volume...

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HAAS Dominik A.

Gāyatrī

Mantra and Mother of the Vedas

The mantra known as Gāyatrī or Sāvitrī (Ṛgveda III 62.10) is one of the most frequently recited texts of mankind. Over the course of time it has not only been personified as the mother of the Vedas – the oldest religious literature of South Asia –, but has even come to be venerated as a goddess. Today many consider it the most important, most efficacious, or holiest mantra of all. In "Gāyatrī: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas", Dominik A. Haas reconstructs the history of the Gāyatrī-Mantra for...

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TOSHOV Nuryoghdi

По следам дворцовой библиотеки (Po sledam dvorcovoj biblioteki) / Reconstructing a Royal Library

Рукописная культура в Хорезме при Конгратах (Rukopisnaja kul'tura v Chorezme pri Kongratach) / Manuscript Culture in Khorezm under the Rule of the Qonghrats

Ausgehend von einer bibliographischen Rekonstruktion untersucht das Buch die Hofbibliothek der Qongrat-Dynastie von Choresm. Die Bibliothek wurde bei der Eroberung des Khanats Chiwa durch russische Truppen im Jahr 1873 als Kriegstrophäe beschlagnahmt und in die russische Hauptstadt St. Petersburg verbracht. Das Buch besteht aus zwei Teilen: Der erste Teil befasst sich mit dem Wesen und der Funktionsweise dieser Hofbibliothek, dem politischen, sozialen und kulturellen Hintergründen der...

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AMINIAN JAZI Ioana (Ed.) |

KAHL Thede (Ed.)

Ethno-Cultural Diversity in the Balkans and the Caucasus

This book brings together studies from a variety of different fields in an attempt to illuminate current multidisciplinary comparative research on ethno-cultural diversity in the Balkan and the Caucasus regions. The articles cover a wide variety of topics and include studies mapping the ethnic identity, archaeology and linguistics of these two very diverse geographical areas. Particular attention is paid to aspects of ethnic identity, migration and contact between the different ethnic groups...

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PRETS Ernst (Ed.)

Transmission and Tradition

Quotations, Paraphrases and Allusions in Texts on Indian Philosophy

The ten contributions to this collected volume are based on papers that were presented at the symposium “Transmission and Tradition – The Meaning and the Role of ‘Fragments’ in Indian Philosophy,” which was held at Shinshu University in Matsumoto, Japan, as an Austrian–Japanese cooperation. Drawing on the rich intertextuality of premodern Indian intellectual culture, the papers conduct in-depth investigations into philological and historical problems raised by textual ‘fragments’, by passages...

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Die Leskys

A Soviet Sultanate

Notes on the Present State of the Khanate of Khiva by the Head of the Amu-Darya Department Colonel Nil Lykoshin, 1912

Viṣṇu-Nārāyaṇa

Letters by the Slovenian Missionary Marcus Antonius Kappus to the Habsburg Monarchy Including the 1701 Map of California as a Peninsula

Polarization in North America

Voices from the Steppe

Between Derivation and Inflection

Gāyatrī

По следам дворцовой библиотеки (Po sledam dvorcovoj biblioteki) / Reconstructing a Royal Library

Ethno-Cultural Diversity in the Balkans and the Caucasus

Transmission and Tradition