Strukturelle Zwange - Persoenliche Freiheiten : Osmanen, Turken, Muslime: Reflexionen Zu Gesellschaftlichen Umbruchen. Gedenkband Zu Ehren Petra Kapperts

The present volume produced in honour of the turcologist Petra Kappert (Hamburg) concentrates on the subject of social upheavals. The papers range widely, historically from the beginnings of the Ottoman Empire up to the present day, geographically from Persia to the Caucasus and from there to Berlin today, and thematically the volume offers an impressive variety of subjects from history, philology, literature and cultural studies to the philosophy of law, sociology and politics.