Ulrike Friday

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Ulrike Freitag (* 1962 in Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt ) is a German modern historian and Islamic scholar .

Scientific career

Ulrike Freitag attended the Theodor-Heuss Gymnasium in Göttingen and graduated from high school there in 1980. The following year she began studying history, Islamic studies and modern German literature at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . From 1982 to 1984 she was enrolled in the same subjects at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. From 1984 to 1985 she stayed in Syria , where she studied Arabic and history at the Arabic Teaching Institute for Foreigners and at the University of Damascus . Afterwards, Freitag returned to the University of Freiburg, and in 1987 obtained the degree of Magister Artium with a thesis on the French mandate in Syria .

Freitag received his doctorate in 1991 in Freiburg on Syrian historiography 1920-1990: Between Science and Politics . In the same year she worked as a research assistant for non-European history at the Open University of Hagen with Jürgen Osterhammel . From 1993 to 2002 she was a lecturer in modern history of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London . During the phase of her academic qualification, she stayed abroad for a longer period of time for research purposes. Her habilitation was supported by grants from the Historical College in Munich and the German Research Foundation and took place in 2002 in Islamic studies at the University of Bonn (subject: Indian Ocean Migrants and State Formation in Hadhramaut ).

In October 2002 Ulrike Freitag was appointed director of the Center for the Modern Orient in Berlin, in connection with a professorship for Islamic studies at the Free University of Berlin .

Statements on current conflicts

Ulrike Freitag also comments on current political problems, such as B. on how the Saudi Arabian state deals with the liberal blogger Raif Badawi . In December 2015, Freitag explained the denominational background to the throttling of Saudi Arabian support for the so-called Islamic State . On June 4, 2019, she signed an appeal for the BDS campaign and criticized Israel's government policy, which aimed to dramatically escalate the Middle East conflict. In addition, Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs would initiate campaigns aimed at discrediting criticism of Israeli government policy as anti-Semitic, demonizing critics as terrorists or anti-Semites, and intimidating their supporters.

Memberships and other functions (selection)

  • since 2002 director of the Center for the Modern Orient (ZMO), Berlin
  • German Association of the Middle East (DAVO)
  • Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
  • 2015–2018: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .
  • since 2012: Member of the Advisory Board, Center Marc Bloch , Berlin.
  • 2010–2015: Member of the board of the German-Arab Friendship Society
  • 2007–2009: Member of the scientific advisory board of the study on the international positioning of the humanities
  • since 2005 co-editor of the Journal of Global History, London
  • since 2005 in the Advisory Board of the Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society , Beirut
  • since 2003 co-editor of the journal Geschichte und Gesellschaft

Publications (selection)

  • Historiography in Syria 1920–1990. Between science and ideology German Orient Institute, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-89173-023-3 (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), university, dissertation, 1991).
  • Indian Ocean Migrants and State Formation in Hadhramaut. Reforming the Homeland (= Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia. Vol. 87). Brill, Leiden u. a. 2003, ISBN 90-04-12850-6 .
  • Challenges to History in the Age of Globalization. In: Lothar Gall (Hrsg.): 25 years of historical college. Review - Balance - Perspectives. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-58005-1 , pp. 271-275.
  • Arab Visions of Modernity in the 19th and Early 20th Century: The Appropriation of Universals or the Adoption of Alien Concepts? In: Jörg Baberowski , Hartmut Kaelble , Jürgen Schriewer (eds.): Self-images and external images. Representation of changing social orders (= own and foreign worlds. Vol. 1). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38016-2 , pp. 89-117.
  • Islamic Studies from the Perspective of a Non-University Research Institute: Orient as Islam? In: Abbas Poya, Maurus Reinkowski (Ed.): The unease in Islamic studies. A classic subject in the spotlight of politics and the media. transcript, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-715-8 , pp. 71-81.
  • From Golden Youth in Arabia to Business Leaders in Singapore: Instructions of a Hadhrami Patriarch. In: Eric Tagliacozzo (Ed.): Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Islam, Movement, and the Longue Durée. Stanford University Press, Stanford CA et al. a. 2009, ISBN 978-0-8047-6133-8 , pp. 235-249.
  • as editor with Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi and Florian Riedler: The City in the Ottoman Empire. Migration and the Making of Urban Modernity (= SOAS Routledge Studies on the Middle East. Vol. 14). Routledge, London a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-0-415-58363-3 .
  • Translocality as a gateway to the history of global interdependencies , article in the online portal H-Soz-Kult , published on June 10, 2005.
  • as editor with Nora Lafi: Urban Governance Under the Ottomans. Between Cosmopolitanism and Conflict , SOAS / Routledge Studies on the Middle East, Abingdon, Routledge, 2014, ISBN 978-0415725477 .
  • as editor with André Chappatte and Nora Lafi: Understanding the City through its Margins , Abingdon, Routledge, 2018, ISBN 978-1138045897 .
  • Recent tendencies towards the restoration of "authentic Arab architecture" using the example of Saudi Arabia . In: Christoph Bernhardt, Martin Sabrow, Achim Saupe (eds.): Built history. Historical authenticity in urban space, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3013-9 , pp. 182–205.
  • State-Society Relations through the Lens of Urban Development. In: Ebru Boyar, Kate Fleet (ed.): Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period , Brill, Leiden / Boston, 2018, ISBN 978-9004367142 , pp. 27-53.
  • The exploration of Muslim life and experience, in: Steffen Wippel, Andrea Fischer-Tahir (Ed.): Beyond established meta-geographies. The Middle East and North Africa in a transregional perspective, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8487-4416-9 , pp. 212–213.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the information in this section cf. the résumé specified in the web links on Fridays on the website of the Freie Universität Berlin.
  2. ↑ Conversation with DRadio Wissen , accessed on January 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ Interview "Saudi Arabia has recognized the threat from IS" , published on the Internet portal of Deutschlandfunk on December 1, 2015, accessed on January 2, 2016.
  4. ↑ 16 so-called Middle East experts: Israel boycott. In: The time. June 4, 2019, accessed June 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ http://www.hsozkult.de/article/id/artikel-632
personal data
SURNAME Friday, Ulrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German modern historian, Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg