Birgit Schäbler
Birgit Schäbler is a German professor for the history of Western Asia at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erfurt. Since October 1, 2017 she has been the director of the Orient-Institut Beirut .
Career
Birgit Schäbler studied history, Islamic and political science at the Universities of Würzburg , Berkeley and Erlangen - Nuremberg and received her doctorate in 1994 from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1997 she was visiting professor at Duke University , from 1997 to 1999 a fellow at the Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard University and then professor at Georgia College State University. Birgit Schäbler has held the professorship for the history of Western Asia at the University of Erfurt since 2002 and has been director of the OIB in Lebanon since 2017 .
Research priorities
Birgit Schäbler is interested in the interwoven history of the Orient and Europe, as well as the history of the Middle East as area history and global history. She researches the modern history of the Levant from the 19th century to the present and the history of oriental studies in Germany. Further research focuses are postcolonialism, social and cultural history of the Middle East from 1800, Palestine, nationalism and Islamism, the history of rural areas and alterity in Muslim societies.
Her research interests combine history and anthropology.
Fonts (selection)
- Riots in the Druze Mountains. Ethnicity and integration of a rural society in Syria from the Ottoman Empire to state independence 1850–1949 . Gotha 1996, ISBN 3-623-00402-2 .
- as editor with Leif Stenberg: Globalization and the Muslim world. Culture, religion, and modernity . Syracuse 2007, ISBN 0-8156-3049-2 .
- as editor: Area studies and the world. World regions and new global history . Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-85476-241-0 .
- Modern Muslims. Ernest Renan and the history of the first Islamic debate in 1883 . Paderborn 2016, ISBN 3-506-78418-8 .
- for further publications see https://www.orient-institut.org/people/directorate/person/birgit-schaebler/
Web links
- orient-institut.org
- https://www.orient-institut.org/people/directorate/person/birgit-schaebler/
- https://www.uni-erfurt.de/philosophische-fakultaet/seminare-professuren/historisches-seminar/geschichte-westasiens/unser-team/prof-dr-birgit-schaebler
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/presse/aktuelles-presse/einzelansicht-pressemmeldung/detail/News/birgit-schaebler-ist-neue-direktorin-des-orient-instituts-in-beirut.html accessed on 31. August 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schäbler, Birgit |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |