Gabriel Warburg

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Gabriel R. Warburg (born 1927 in Berlin ) is an Israeli historian and university professor of German origin.

biography

Gabriel Warburg emigrated with his family to Haifa in what was then Palestine in 1933 . From 1946 to 1965 he was a member of Kibbutz Yehiam in northern Israel, not far from Nahariya . He first studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received his doctorate in 1968 from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London . Since then he has been researching at the University of Haifa , whose rector he was 1974–1977. 1984–1987 he was director of the Israel Academic Center in Cairo . His research interests include Islam in Sudan and Egypt . He is one of the fellows of the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin.

Publications (selection)

  • Islam, Nationalism and Communism in a Traditional Society: The Case of Sudan: Case of the Sudan. 1978
  • Gabriel R. Warburg, Uri M. Kupferschmidt, et al. : Islam, Nationalism, and Radicalism in Egypt and the Sudan. 1984
  • Egypt and the Sudan: Studies in History and Politics. 1985 ( partial online view )
  • Historical Discord in the Nile Valley (Series in Islam and Society in Africa). 1992
  • Aharon Layish and Gabriel R. Warburg: The Reinstatement of Islamic Law in Sudan Under Numayrī: An Evaluation of a Legal Experiment in the Light of Its Historical Context, ... (Studies in Islamic Law & Society). August 2002
  • Islam, Sectarianism and Politics in Sudan Since the Mahdiyya. 2003 ( review )
  • The Sudan under Wingate: Administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1899–1916 (Routledge Revivals)

literature

  • Yearbook, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 1991/92 ( online )