Islamic Alternatives' are the proceedings of a symposium which was held in April 2014 within the framework of a research project entitled The Khaksar Order between Ahl-e Haqq and Shiite Sufi Order, funded by the German Research Foundation. 0The tradition and belief system of the…
The historiography of Alexander the Great
This volume tries to tackle the most serious problem facing modern Alexander the Great studies: that of inadequate sources. Its principal interest is in surviving ancient continuous accounts (Diodorus, Curtius Rufus, Plutarch, Arrian, and Justin), which are at least three hundre…
Glossar zu den althethitischen Ritualtexten
by Neu, Erich
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The study by Kerstin Schier examines the big annual festival (mahotsava) at the Ekāmranātha temple in the South Indian town Kanchipuram, which - among other things - dramatises the divine marriage between god Śiva (as Ekāmranātha) and the goddess, generally considered to be Kāmā…
Einer der ältesten, charakteristischsten und am besten bezeugten Vertreter des ägyptischen Pantheon ist der Krokodilgott Sobek. Ursprünglich ein Ressortgott des Wassers und Garant von Fruchtbarkeit gewann er spätestens Anfang des zweiten Jahrtausends weitere bedeutende Aspekte h…
This volume contains over twenty articles written by outstanding Turcologists in honour of the Norwegian scholar Bernt Brendemoen, whose œuvre is reviewed in an introductory chapter. The topics addressed in the articles represent important fields of research in current Turcologi…