Kulturen sind keine voneinander isolierten Gebilde, sie durchdringen und beeinflussen sich gegenseitig. Beschreibungen solchen Kulturtransfers sind dabei immer wertend, geschehen sie doch stets selbst von einem kulturellen Standpunkt aus. Anhand konkreter Beispiele untersucht der Band kontroverse Wahrnehmungen und Darstellungen von Kulturtransfer in und zwischen Asien, Europa und der arabischen Welt. In allen drei Weltregionen spielen die behandelten Repräsentationen eine bedeutende Rolle bei der Bestimmung von »eigener« und »fremder« Kultur.

InhaltsangabeContents Acknowledgments. 7 Foreword: Representations and Transfers. 9 Hartmut Kaelble Cultural Transfers in Dispute: An Introduction. 15 Jörg Feuchter The Middle Ages: Representations of Transfers between Islam and Christianity Jewish or Islamic Influence? The Iconoclastic Controversy in Dispute. 41 Wolfram Drews Did the Medieval West Receive a 'Complete Model' of Education from Classical Islam? Reconsidering George Makdisi and His Thesis. 61 Tim Geelhaar Emperor Frederick II, 'Sultan of Lucera', 'Friend of the Muslims', Promoter of Cultural Transfer: Controversies and Suggestions. 85 Dorothea Weltecke Medieval Western Perceptions of Islam and the Scholars: What Went Wrong?. 107 Kristin Skottki Does the History of Medieval Political Thought Need a Spatial Turn? The Murals of Longthorpe, the Secretum secretorum and the Intercultural Transfer of Political Ideas in the High Middle Ages. 135 Bee Yun Between 'Core' and 'Periphery': Representations of Transfers of Fascism, Violence, and Law Western Representations of Fascist Influences on Islamist Thought. 149 JosephSimon Görlach Transfers, Formations, Transformations? Some Programmatic Notes on Fascism in India, c. 1922-1938. 167 Benjamin Zachariah Colonialism and Violence: Alleged Transfers and Political Instrumentalisation. 193 Andreas Weiß Legal Authenticity, Cultural Insulation and Undemocratic Rule: AbdalRazzaq Ahmad alSanhuris (18951971) Sharia Project and Its Misrepresentation in Egypt. 211 Friedhelm Hoffmann East Asia: Representations of Transfers of Democracy and Human Rights, Civilisation, and Love Transfer in Dispute: The Case of China. 263 Heiner Roetz The Global Diffusion of the Western Concept of Civilisation to Nineteenth Century Korea. 283 Young Sun Ha Importation of Love from Modern Europe to Korea. 299 Jungwoon Choi Notes on Contributors. 313 Index of Names and Places. 319