SoSe 24: Interdisciplinary and/or Inter-Institutional master's degree programs
M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East (2020 study regulations)
0593a_MA120Please find the current study and examination regulations here .
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Histories and Societies of the Middle East
0593aB1.1Learning objectives:
Students have in-depth knowledge and understanding of the historical and social formations of the Near and Middle East from late antiquity to the present as well as the historical conditions since antiquity. They are familiar with important current theoretical and methodological debates in social history research that are relevant to the study of the Near and Middle East. Students can recognize, classify, and articulate the circumstances and problems surrounding socialhistorical descriptions of the Near and Middle East; they also know how to consult, evaluate, and interpret source material independently and to apply the tools of history and social sciences when dealing with questions they have developed themselves. They are aware of the central categories of analysis used to examine historical and social processes and know how to discuss and present the results of their scholarly analyses orally and in writing.Content:
In this module, students engage intensively with complex topics such as periodization, dimensions of space (power centers vs. peripheral regions, transregional connections), governance, statehood and social groups as well as identity, mobility, communication, and ethnic and religious minorities. The module teaches them to reflect on topics from the fields of Arab-Islamic, Arab-Christian and Syrian-Christian, Byzantine, Persian, Jewish or Turkish history as well as from historical source studies considering theories and methods specific to historical and social science and by critically evaluating scholarly debates in these fields.Modes of instruction/ Contact hours / Regular attendance required
Elective course / 2 SWS / yesElective course / 2 SWS / yes
Module assessment
Written assignment (approx. 5000 words)Language
English (or if applicable, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac-Aramaic,Turkish)Total workload
450 hours (15 credit points)duration / Frequency
One or two semesters / Every semester close-
14311-ISME
Introductory Course
Cancelled
A Great Divergence? narratives and models of Islamic and ‘Western’ history (Florian Zemmin)
Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: 1.2001 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14314-ISME
Reading Course
Sources on Christian-Muslim Relations in the Islamic World (Christian Mauder)
Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-18)
Location: 2.2063 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14324
Seminar
Multi-perspective History of the Middle East Conflict (Ulrike Freitag Elke Hartmann Lukas Mühlethaler)
Schedule: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-15)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14325-ISME
Practice seminar
The Middle East Conflict in Arabic Media (Emad Alali)
Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-15)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14462
Practice seminar
Oral Traditions: Modes of Remembering and Transmission in the Iranian Speaking World (Khanna Usoyan)
Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-18)
Location: 1.2058 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14568
Reading Course
Reading Ottoman Sources (Okcan Yildirimturk)
Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-17)
Location: 2.2059 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14630
Advanced seminar
Jews and the Arab World in the 19th and 20th centuries (Lukas Mühlethaler)
Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-15)
Location: 0.2051 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14312-ISME
Reading Course
Why do Muslims lag behind? Shakib Arslan’s response from 1930 (Florian Zemmin)
Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-17)
Location: 1.2051 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14313-ISME
Seminar
Christian-Muslim Relations in the Islamic World (Christian Mauder)
Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-18)
Location: 2.2063 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14469
Practice seminar
Ancient History of Iran trough the Texts (Jaime Martínez Porro)
Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-17)
Location: JK 25/208 weitere Hinweise zur Austattung unter: www.raum.geschkult.fu-berlin.de
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14629
Lecture
Jews in the Islamicate World (Lukas Mühlethaler)
Schedule: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-15)
Location: 2.2059 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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31602b
Seminar
Byzantium & Eastern Europe (Theocharis Grigoriadis, Johannes Niehoff)
Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: Garystr.55/105 Seminarraum (Garystr. 55)
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14311-ISME
Introductory Course
Cancelled
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Traditions of Texts and Knowledge in the Middle East
0593aB1.2Learning objectives:
Students have a thorough understanding of the emergence and systematization of various traditions of knowledge and texts in the Near and Middle East, including their presentation and mediality, as well as the people involved in those traditions and the authority associated with them regarding religious, social and epistemological structures, especially from the beginnings of Islam to the present. They are aware of the historical and contemporary processes of collective formation and positioning of identity in cultures of knowledge and texts in the Near and Middle East; they have a conceptual toolkit of established theories and methods from the history of knowledge, cultural studies, and philology, which allows them to reflect on sources from different knowledge and text cultures and to present the results of their analyses orally and in writing appropriately.Content:
The module deals with the history and current significance of textual cultures and knowledge cultures from the Near and Middle East, especially from the beginnings of Islam to the present day. This includes, on the one hand, the reception and further development of antiquity’s legacy in natural sciences and humanities (in philosophy, logic, mysticism, etc.) as well as scientific literature in the broadest sense through the centuries and, on the other hand, normative traditions, such as the exegesis of sacred texts as well as the study of traditions, norms, dogmatics, hagiography, religious ethics, or rituals. One focus is on the cultural and intellectual history of the Arabic-speaking world, Jewish history of knowledge and the relationship between Judaism and Islam as well as facets of the Christian Orient and Iranian religions in the past and present.Modes of instruction/ Contact hours / Regular attendance required
Elective course / 2 SWS / yesElective course / 2 SWS / yes
Module assessment
Written assignment (approx. 5000 words)Language
English (or if applicable, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac-Aramaic,Turkish)Total workload
450 hours (15 credit points)duration / Frequency
One or two semesters / Every semester close-
13951
Reading Course
Ancient Medicine in Translation (Cale Johnson)
Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-11)
Location: Arnimallee 10, Raum 010
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13953
Methods Tutorial
Late Uruk Notational Practices (Cale Johnson)
Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: Arnimallee 10, Raum 010
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13954
Seminar
Mythology from the Sumerians to the Presocratics I (Cale Johnson)
Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-17)
Location: Arnimallee 10, Raum 010
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13956
Lecture
Introduction to Ancient Astral Sciences (Antonius Ossendrijver)
Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-30)
Location: Arnimallee 10, Raum 010 The first day of the class is 30.04.2024!!!
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14313-ISME
Seminar
Christian-Muslim Relations in the Islamic World (Christian Mauder)
Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-18)
Location: 2.2063 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14314-ISME
Reading Course
Sources on Christian-Muslim Relations in the Islamic World (Christian Mauder)
Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-18)
Location: 2.2063 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14317-ISME
Seminar
Islamic Eco-Jurisprudence and Green Ethics (Birgit Krawietz)
Schedule: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-15)
Location: 1.2051 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14462
Practice seminar
Oral Traditions: Modes of Remembering and Transmission in the Iranian Speaking World (Khanna Usoyan)
Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-18)
Location: 1.2058 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14631
Advanced seminar
Introduction to Reading Judeo-Arabic Texts (Lukas Mühlethaler)
Schedule: Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: JK 25/208 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
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13950
Undergraduate Course / Seminar
Medicine in the Ancient World (Cale Johnson)
Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-18)
Location: Arnimallee 10, Raum 010
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13952
Introductory Course / Seminar
The Origin of Writing in Eurasia: Anthropological Perspectives (Cale Johnson)
Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: Arnimallee 10, Raum 006, Büro Prof. Johnson
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14309-ISME
Introductory Course
Book Circulation and Arab Cultural Heritage in the Long Nineteenth Century (Ingrid Austveg Evans)
Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: 1.2052 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14310-ISME
Reading Course
Cancelled
Book Circulation and Cultural Heritage through Arabic Sources (Ingrid Austveg Evans)
Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-17)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14318-ISME
Practice seminar
Islamic Eco-Jurisprudence and Green Ethics (Birgit Krawietz)
Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-15)
Location: 1.2051 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14358-ISME
Seminar
Introduction to Quranic Studies (Christian Mauder)
Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: 1.2051 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14460
Seminar
Zoroastrianism II (Alberto Cantera Glera)
Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14629
Lecture
Jews in the Islamicate World (Lukas Mühlethaler)
Schedule: Mo 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-15)
Location: 2.2059 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14630
Advanced seminar
Jews and the Arab World in the 19th and 20th centuries (Lukas Mühlethaler)
Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-15)
Location: 0.2051 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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13951
Reading Course
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Languages of the Middle East
0593aB1.3Learning objectives:
Students can reflect critically on linguistic developments in the Near and Middle East drawing from the most important primary and secondary sources. They know the principles of classifying languages of the region (e.g. historically, comparatively, typologically, regionally) and are confident in applying various methods from empirical linguistics to the languages of the region (e.g. language documentation, field research, dialectology, variational linguistics, sociolinguistics). They know how to make use of models and examples demonstrating the complex interrelationship between language and society in different historical contexts; they can examine oral and written sources independently regarding linguistic issues and to present their observations in oral and written form in a structured and logical way.Content:
The courses provide an overview of the region’s language groups, their historical sources, and their current classification (e.g. Semitic, Iranian, Turkish); furthermore, the module surveys linguistic ecology regarding topics such as nation states, minorities, gender, regional languages, diglossia, writing systems, and linguistic ideologies.Modes of instruction/ Contact hours / Regular attendance required
Elective course / 2 SWS / yesElective course / 2 SWS / yes
Module assessment
Written assignment (approx. 5000 words)Language
English (or if applicable, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac-Aramaic,Turkish)Total workload
450 hours (15 credit points)duration / Frequency
One or two semesters / Every semester close-
14401
Seminar
(S) Biblical Aramaic (Grace Jeongyeon Park)
Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-17)
Location: K 23/27 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
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14404
Reading Course
(Lk) Maltese (Maciej Klimiuk)
Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14464
Language Course
Persian Daily Communication and Colloquial Language (Ramin Shahzadi)
Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-18)
Location: 1.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14465
Proseminar
Introduction to Morphology of Middle and Modern Iranian Languages (Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst)
Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: 1.2058 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14467
Modul
Khwarezmian (Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst)
Schedule: Fr 13:00-15:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-19)
Location: 1.2058 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14468
Modul
Christian Sogdian (Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst)
Schedule: Fr 15:00-17:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-19)
Location: 1.2058 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14568
Reading Course
Reading Ottoman Sources (Okcan Yildirimturk)
Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-17)
Location: 2.2059 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14631
Advanced seminar
Introduction to Reading Judeo-Arabic Texts (Lukas Mühlethaler)
Schedule: Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: JK 25/208 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
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14642
Reading Course
Secondary Hebrew Literature (Ilil Hoz)
Schedule: Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2024-04-17)
Location: -1.2057 Seminarraum (UG) (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14402
Reading Course
(Lk) Semitic Philology (Grace Jeongyeon Park)
Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-18)
Location: K 23/27 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
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14458
Seminar
Avestan II (Alberto Cantera Glera)
Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-17)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14459
Seminar
Middle Persian II (Alberto Cantera Glera)
Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14463
Language Course
Northern Kurdish II (Kurmanci) (Khanna Usoyan)
Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-18)
Location: 1.2052 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14401
Seminar
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Literatures of the Middle East in their Social Dimensions
0593aB1.4Learning objectives:
Students develop their analytical skills in the scholarly handling of written and oral sources from the Near and Middle East; they have an awareness of the origins and reception of literary production in the past and present. They can approach research questions in a methodologically and terminologically reflective manner based on various genres of texts and literary phenomena; they know how to evaluate secondary literature as well as the most important primary sources critically, and to describe, analyze and classify them historically and aesthetically. They can recognize connections and intertextual references and understand and historically contextualize mutual influences, continuities, and ruptures. They strengthen their ability to reflect and reason complex, multilingual, transregional matters. They are skilled to reflect their approaches to research questions and to present their analyses orally and in writing appropriately.Content:
The module deals with selected epochs, authors, genres, language levels of the Near and Middle East or of a specific literary genre, using the most important sources and critically illuminating specialist literature. The courses provide an overview of partial epochs or literary genres, including debates concerning specific literary, social and gender-historical research problems. Students discuss significant texts in the regional languages regarding authorship, production processes, and media representations, as well as to influences and patterns of perception that have an impact on the literary reception from the regions of the Near and Middle East; thereby, they experiment with theoretical approaches to interpretation of sources from Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Syriac-Aramaic, or Turkish literature.Modes of instruction/ Contact hours / Regular attendance required
Elective course / 2 SWS / yesElective course / 2 SWS / yes
Module assessment
Written assignment (approx. 5000 words)Language
English (or if applicable, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac-Aramaic,Turkish)Total workload
450 hours (15 credit points)duration / Frequency
One or two semesters / Every semester close-
14310-ISME
Reading Course
Cancelled
Book Circulation and Cultural Heritage through Arabic Sources (Ingrid Austveg Evans)
Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-17)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14353
Advanced Seminar
"The fragrant branch" : culture and history of al-Andalus (seminar) (Isabel Toral-Niehoff)
Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: 1.2001 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14354
Reading Course
"The fragrant branch" : culture and history of al-Andalus (reading course) (Isabel Toral-Niehoff)
Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: 1.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14356
Seminar
Films & Influences of Elia Suleiman (Refqa Abu-Remaileh)
Schedule: Fr 10:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2024-06-14)
Location: -1.2009 großer Hörsaal (UG) (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14357
Reading Course
Palestinian Female Poets in Modern Arabic Literature (Izza Abu Haija)
Schedule: Di 10:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-06-04)
Location: 0.3099B Seminarraum (Zugang von der L-Strasse) (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14360
Language Course
The Literary Lives of Emile Habibi (Refqa Abu-Remaileh)
Schedule: Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2024-06-07)
Location: -1.2009 großer Hörsaal (UG) (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14361
Language Course
Arabic in Media and Multimedia (Izza Abu Haija)
Schedule: Do 10:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-06-06)
Location: 0.3099B Seminarraum (Zugang von der L-Strasse) (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14631
Advanced seminar
Introduction to Reading Judeo-Arabic Texts (Lukas Mühlethaler)
Schedule: Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: JK 25/208 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
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14640
Language Course
Jewish Old and Middle Aramaic (Ilil Hoz)
Schedule: Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2024-04-17)
Location: 1.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14309-ISME
Introductory Course
Book Circulation and Arab Cultural Heritage in the Long Nineteenth Century (Ingrid Austveg Evans)
Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-16)
Location: 1.2052 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14461
Reading Course
The exegesis of the Gathas in Late Antiquity: the Warštmansar Nask (Alberto Cantera Glera)
Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2024-04-17)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14642
Reading Course
Secondary Hebrew Literature (Ilil Hoz)
Schedule: Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2024-04-17)
Location: -1.2057 Seminarraum (UG) (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14310-ISME
Reading Course
Cancelled