The Arab world and Asia between development and change : dedicated to the XXXIst International Congress of Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa / edited by Günter Barthel, Lothar Rathmann.

Includes bibliographical references.

History and Tradition : The Significance of the Philosophical Ideas of Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1873-1938) - Some Remarks on the Relation between Islam and the Cities in the Middle Ages - The Syrian/Lebanese Independence Movement and the Young-Turkish Revolution of 1908/09 - The Effects of British Colonial Rule on the Social Structure, Economic Development and Social Situation of the Arab Population of Palestine with Special Regard for the Peasantry and the Emerging Class of Wage Labourers - Aspects of the British Military Policy in Egypt (1919-1939) - Italy's Colonial Conquest of Libya in 1911/12 in the light of Eye-Witness Reports by the German Africa Expert, Gottlob Adolf Krause -- Political and Social Problems : The Significance at International Law, of the USSR's Bilateral Treaties for Peace, Security and Cooperation in Asia - The Movement of Non-Alignment an Essential Factor of Present International Relations – General Laws and Specific Characteristics Governing the Development of Scientific Modes of Reasoning in East Asia (Does the Far East Really Think in a Different Way?) - The Establishment of Indian Foreign Policy by Jawaharlal Nehru - On the Situation of the Turkish Trade Union Movement: Historical Survey and Political Background - The Rebirth of Palestinian Resistance -- Economic Aspects : Industrialization and the Emergence of a New Type of Regional Structure in India - Informations Given by Arab Geographers about the Economic Situation in the Gazira (Northern Mesopotamia) in the 4th/10th Century - The Present and Future Importance of the Agricultural Raw Materials Processing Industries in the Arab Countries - The Arab Oil Countries and Iran in the Post-Nationalization Era - The Arab Economic Unity Agreement: Objects and Reality -- Language : The Main Stages in the Process of Formation of the Bahasa Indonesia - The Participle in the Arabic Scientific and Technical Terminology - Arabic Verbs with a Two-Phase Meaning – Culture and Literature : The Movement for Freedom and Rights of the People" and „Political Prose" in the Japan of the 1880s. - Some Theoretical Problems of the Study and Depiction of Modern Japanese Literature in its Initial Stage - Aspects and Results of Investigating Tuvinian Folklore - Contributions to the Iconography of Some Picture-Motifs of Central Asia - An Early Illustrated, Khamsa" of Nizami - Contemporary Arab Opinion on Creative Art and Literary Activity.