Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East (the former: Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Vorderen Orients) are published as supplement to Der Islam founded in 1910 by Carl Heinrich Becker, an early practitioner of the modern study of Islam. Following Becker's lead, the mission of the series is the study of past societies of the Middle East, their belief systems, and their underlying social and economic relations, from the Iberian Peninsula to Central Asia, and from the Ukrainian steppes to the highlands of Yemen. Publications in the series draw on the philological groundwork generated by the literary tradition, but in their aim to cover the entire spectrum of the historically oriented humanities and social sciences, also utilize textual sources as well as archival, material, and archaeological evidence. Its editors are Stefan Heidemann (Universitat Hamburg, editor-in-chief), Gottfried Hagen (University of Michigan), Andreas Kaplony (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen), and Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware).

The subjects of this volume are views and perceptions of the a oeothera (i.e. strangers, enemies or curiosities) within the Islamic world, as well as in the interplay between the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. More than 20 contributions describe conceptions and contingencies of the other from very different perspectives, so arriving - with reference to Islam - at insights into the complex problems of the a oeother.a The studies are dedicated to Professor Gernot Rotter.

Salafismus zeigt sich derzeit hauptsachlich in der medial aufgearbeiteten Form des zeitgenoessischen politischen Salafismus: radikal, schnell wachsend, national und international als aktuelle Bedrohung empfunden. Dem oeffentlichen Diskurs fehlt es haufig an Information und Differenzierung. Es gilt einerseits, Gefahren nicht kleinzureden, um Pravention und angemessene Reaktion zu ermoeglichen, und andererseits, diese Minderheit in der Minderheit daran zu hindern, das Bild der Muslime in der Mehrheitsgesellschaft zu pragen. Informierend und differenzierend untersucht der vorliegende Band das Thema Salafismus in zwei Teilen unter den Gesichtspunkten Geschichte und Gegenwart des Salafismus in der islamischen Welt und, dem Titel folgend, Salafismus in Deutschland. Radikalisierung und Pravention.