Mediterranean Contaminations

The Mediterranean is a sea that has experienced extraordinary contacts, conflicts, encounters and exchanges through the centuries. This complexity is analysed in the present volume through the eyes of twelve scholars specialised in Middle Eastern and North African studies. Arabic and Semitic linguistics and dialectology, Arab literature and popular music and culture are some of the broad range of subjects included in this volume which engages different geographical areas of the so-called Mare Nostrum and various historical periods, from the medieval to the contemporary era.

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The series Studies on Modern Orient provides an overview of religious, political and social phenomena in modern and contemporary Muslim societies. The volumes do not only take into account Near and Middle Eastern countries, but also explore Islam and Muslim culture in other regions of the world, for example, in Europe and the US. The series Studies on Modern Orient was founded in 2010 by Klaus Schwarz Verlag.