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Prof. Dr. Daniel König
Latin & Arabic
Social Histories of Linguistic Entanglement
For centuries, Latin and Arabic have played a preponderant role as languages of administration, intellectual endeavours and religion. See Daniel G. König (ed.), Latin and Arabic. Entangled Histories (Heidelberg: HeiUP, 2019), Open access, DOI: https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.448 .
Transmediterranean History. Anthology of Commented Primary Sources
Transmediterranean History is a trilingual journal (German, English, Arabic) that provides access to commented excerpts of primary sources in their original language and in translation. They cover transmediterranean themes in the period between 600 and 1650. Open access, DOI: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/index.php/tmh/index .
al-Gharb
Terminological Enquiries into the Emergence of a Culturalist Conception of the West in the Arabic-Islamic Sphere (16th-19th cent.)
“Mappa Rogeriana”: southward oriented world map by the Arabic-Islamic geographer al-Idrīsī (d. c. 560/1165), produced under Roger II of Sicily