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The Topography of Remembrance deals with different forms of remembrance and collective memory in Mesopotamia, discussing both its public (national) and private (family) aspects. The Introduction offers a history of modern, European memory in comparison with the Mesopotamian mode. The research adds to the recent discussion on collective memory. The Mesopotamians found tools for the construction and passing on of common remembrance in liturgical repetition, in the preservation of buildings and monuments, and in communication channels. To describe these processes the author deals with...

This study addresses encounters between Jews and Muslims in interwar Berlin. Living on the margins of German society, the two groups sometimes used that position to fuse visions and their personal lives. German politics set the switches for their meeting, while the urban setting of Western Berlin offered a unique contact zone. Although the meeting was largely accidental, Muslim Indian missions served as a crystallization point. Five case studies approach the protagonists and their network from a variety of perspectives. Stories surfaced testifying the multiple aid Muslims gave to Jews during...

This book focuses on a wide variety of Muslim ac- tors who, in recent years, have entered into the European public sphere. Without excluding the phenomenon of terrorists, it maps the whole field of Muslim visibility. The nine contributions present unpublished ethnographic materials that have been collected between 2003 and 2005. They track down the available space that is open to Muslims in EU member states claiming a visibility of their own. The volume collects male and female, secular and religious, radical and pietistic voices of sometimes very young people. They all speak about "being a...

Nicht weit von Berlin spielte sich während des Ersten Weltkriegs eine Kolonialgeschichte zwischen Propaganda und Bildung, Kriegsgefangenschaft und Unabhängigkeitsbewegung ab.Am 19. November 1914 riefen Deutschland und die Türkei gemeinsam zum 'Jihad' gegen Russen, Briten und Franzosen auf. In Deutschland entstanden islamistische Propagandalager, in denen muslimische Kriegsgefangene für die deutsch-türkische Allianz im Ersten Weltkrieg gewonnen werden sollten.Die 18.000 russisch-muslimischen Kriegsgefangenen im Weinberglager in der Nähe von Berlin bekamen diese Politik am eigenen Leib zu...