Eberhard Serauky

Eberhard Serauky (born September 11, 1940 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German orientalist .

Life

Eberhard Serauky passed his Abitur in 1959 and began studying Oriental Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in the same year . In 1964 he finished his studies and became a research assistant at the Institute for Orient Research of the German Academy of Sciences . The doctorate took place in October 1968 with Johann Fück and Manfred Fleischhammer with the thesis The scientific and journalistic activity of Muhammad Kurd 'Alīs in the service of the Arab Renaissance in Syria . After completing his doctorate, Serauky became the main consultant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR, and in 1974 senior research assistant at the Institute for International Relations of the Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR in Potsdam-Babelsberg . In 1977 Serauky became a research assistant at the ZIAGA of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , in 1981 senior research assistant at the Near Eastern Institute of the Asian Studies section of the Humboldt University in Berlin (HUB). The PhD B took place in June 1983 with Fleischhammer, Horst Grienig and Erika Endesfelder with the thesis The social effectiveness and conceptual world of the Ismāʿīlīja and the Qarmatians in the Yemeni Middle Ages (9th - 13th centuries) . In February 1985 he became a university lecturer in Islamic Studies at the HUB. Serauky has been teaching and working at the Ain-Schams University in Cairo and other universities in the Arab world since 1995 .

He has made a name for himself as an expert in the Arab-Islamic area, which he examines using political-sociological criteria and where he criticizes the state policies of these countries as well as Islamism.

Fonts

History of islam. Origin, development and effect from the beginning to the middle of the XX. Century . DVW, Berlin 1991 ISBN 3-326-00557-1
In the name of Allah. Terrorism in the Middle East . Dietz, Berlin 2000 ISBN 3-320-01990-2
History of islam. Origin, development and effect. From the beginning to the middle of the 20th century . Edition q, Berlin 2003 ISBN 3-86124-574-4
In the glory of Allah. The Arab cultural world and Europe . Edition q, Berlin 2004 ISBN 3-86124-583-3

literature

Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 569-570.

Web links

Literature by and about Eberhard Serauky in the catalog of the German National Library
Nick Brauns: Terror Laboratory Egypt. An important book on terrorism in the Middle East. Junge Welt, October 6, 2001, on Nick Brauns' homepage

supporting documents

personal data
SURNAME	Serauky, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Halle (Saale)

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