^#smrgDERGİ Die Welt des Islams: International Journal for the Study of Modern Islam - 1 40 March

NACI-IRUF OBITUARY HARALD MOTZKI, Zum Gedenken: Albrecht Noth (1937-1999) 1 .
AUFsATZE ARTICLES ROSWITHA BADRY, Zum Profil weiblicher ‘Ulama' in Iran: Neue Rollenmodelle fur “islamische Feministinnen”?, 7
MEIR LITVAK, The Finances of the ‘Ulama' Communities of Najaf and Karbala', 1796-1904, 41
ROBERT OLSON, The Kurdish Rebellions of Sheikh Said (1925), Mt. Ararat (1930), and Dersim (1937-8): Their Impact on the Development of the Turkish Air Force and on Kurdish and Turkish Nationalism ........................... 67

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MECKELEIN, WOLFGANG, Nordkaukasien (Clemens P. Sidorko), 113
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