For Palestinians, the term nakba (catastrophe) subsumes the events within the context of the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, immediately after the foundation of the state of Israel. To this day, the nakba is referred to continuously − not only within the context of politics, but also in literature and popular and everyday culture. Using interviews with Palestinian refugees in Jordan and a wide range of written sources, this volume for the first time approaches the forms and functions of nakba memories from the perspective of memory theory, demonstrating how the various events are assigned significance through narrative structures.

Die Selbstfindung der muslimischen Gesellschaften im Spiegel ihrer Geschichtstraditionen.

Kulturelle Erinnerung von der Antike bis ins 20. Jahrhundert.