Georg Stauth

Georg Stauth (born August 28, 1942 in Otterberg ) is a German Islamic scholar and sociologist. He is considered to be one of the founders of the modern sociology of Islam. In his work, he combines sociological studies, in particular on Max Weber , Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault , with empirical and historical Islamic studies.

biography

In 1962 Stauth passed his Abitur at the Lichtenbergschule - grammar school for boys - in Darmstadt. He first studied Oriental Studies, English Studies and Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt (until 1965) and received his doctorate (1969) in the subjects of Islamic Studies, Sociology and Philosophy at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . He then took up his first academic position as a DAAD lecturer at the University of Alexandria in Egypt . After positions as a consultant for teaching and educational reform in the rectorate of the Ruhr University in Bochum and in the university department of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, he began teaching in 1974 at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University with a focus on developmental sociology . There he headed the Middle East department of the research focus for development sociology for many years. He accepted professorships, visiting professorships, research and teaching fellowships, etc. a. at the following universities: Egypt: Ain Shams University (1977/78; 2010), Cairo University (1981); Durham University , England (1983); Flinders University , Adelaide, Australia (1985); Middle East Center, St Antony's College , Oxford (1988-1990); National University of Singapore (1990-1992). Stauth completed his habilitation in Bielefeld in 1988 with a thesis on "Islam and Western Rationalism". From 1992 on, with a break at Deakin University (Melbourne / Geelong) Australia (1995/6), he taught again in Bielefeld. He also took over the management of a research project on cultural change in Egypt (2000–2007) at the Collaborative Research Center “Cultural Change” at Gutenberg University and an international study group on “Islam and Modernity” at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen from 2003 to 2006).

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the journal “Theory, Culture and Society” (Sage) and founded the “Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam” (LIT-Verlag; Transcript-Verlag), for which he was co-editor.

Research priorities

Stauth's focus areas are interdisciplinary. They range from sociology and Islamic studies to ethnology, religious studies and philosophy. In extensive field research he dealt with the relationship between farmers and the state, with rural labor migration , with structural and cultural modernization, e.g. B. in Egypt or Turkey , later with the sociology of Islam, with the theory of modernity , with the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche in the work of Max Weber, with Ludwig Klages and with the Frankfurt School , with Karl Jaspers , with the theme: Michel Foucault and Islam. He also devoted himself to western orientalism , most recently with the persecution-related exile of the conservative Frankfurt orientalist Hellmut Ritter in Turkey. Last field research led Stauth to Egyptian holy places in the Nile Delta.

Publications (selection)

• The Fellachen in the Nile Delta . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1984
• Nietzsche's Dance . (co-authored) Blackwell, Oxford 1988
• Islam and Western Rationalism . Campus, Frankfurt 1994
• Authenticity and cultural globalization . Transcript, Bielefeld 1999
• Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia . Transcript, Bielefeld 2002
• Egyptian Holy Places , Vol. I-III. Transcript, Bielefeld 2005–2010
• Challenge Egypt . Transcript, Bielefeld 2010
• Shock waves Tahrir . Vantage Point World, Bad König 2011

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Stauth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bielefeld University: Sociology of Development
• Information about Georg Stauth from Perlentaucher

notes

1. ^ "Istanbul". Spiritual wanderings from the "world in pieces". ISBN 3899424743