Friedemann Büttner

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Friedemann Büttner (born May 18, 1938 in Göttingen ; † September 4, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German political scientist and university professor.

Life

Büttner studied in Göttingen, Munich, London and Oxford, among others with Eric Voegelin and Albert Hourani . From 1968 he was a research assistant at the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1969 with studies on the destruction of the understanding of order in the Ottoman Empire (1800–1926) . With a grant from the German Research Foundation , he began researching in Cairo in 1976. In 1979 he was appointed to the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin , where he worked as a professor and head of the Middle East Politics department until he retired in 2003 .

With his academic work, Büttner set accents in researching the political landscape of the Middle East and Islamic cultures. Visiting professorships and research stays have taken him to several Arab countries.

Büttner was a board member of the German-Arab Friendship Society .

He was married to Inge Klostermeier-Büttner and died of cancer in September 2012.

Publications (selection)

  • The Crisis of the Islamic Order: Studies on the Destruction of the Understanding of Order in the Ottoman Empire (1800-1926) (Diss.), Munich 1969
  • Reform and revolution in the Islamic world: from the Ottoman imperial doctrine to Arab socialism (ed.), Munich 1971, ISBN 3-471-61505-9 .
  • Reform in Uniform? : Military rule and development in the Third World (collaborator), series of publications by the research institute of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Vol. 127, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1976, ISBN 3-87831-236-9 .
  • Middle East  : in Wolfrum / Prill / Brückner (ed.), Handbook United Nations, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7940-2248-3 .
  • Middle East PLOETZ - history of the Arab-Islamic world for reference (with Johannes Berger and Bertold Spuler), Freiburg / Würzburg 1987, ISBN 3-87640-321-9
  • Egypt (with Inge Klostermeier), Munich 1991, ISBN 3-406-35162-X .

literature

  • Amr Hamzawy and Ferhad Ibrahim (eds.): Religion, State and Politics in the Middle East: Festschrift for Friedemann Büttner (in collaboration with Katharina Lenner), Münster a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6870-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. cf. Ferhad Ibrahim: Crisis and change in Islamic societies in the academic work of Friedemann Büttner in: Amr Hamzawy and Ferhad Ibrahim: Religion, State and Politics in the Middle East - Festschrift for Friedemann Büttner , Münster a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6870-2 , pp. 7f
  2. The family's obituary notice, Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 8, 2012