Henning Sievert

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Henning Sievert is a German scholar of Islam .

Life

From 1994 to 2001 he studied Islamic Studies, Middle and Modern and Eastern European History at the University of Kiel . After completing his doctorate from 2001 to 2005 in the junior research group Islamic Educational Networks in the Local and Transnational Context (18th-20th century) at the University of Bochum , he was an assistant at the Oriental Seminar at the University of Zurich from 2005 to 2011 . From 2011 to 2014 he was an academic advisor at the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn . From 2014 to 2017 he was senior assistant at the Islamic Studies department of the Asia-Orient Institute in Zurich . After completing his habilitation in 2016 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich, he was an SNSF professor at the Institute for Islamic Studies and Modern Oriental Philology at the University of Bern in 2017 . In 2017 he represented the Chair for Islamic Studies (Turkish and Persian) at Heidelberg University . Since 2018 he has been teaching as a professor for Islamic studies (Turkish and Persian) in Heidelberg .

His work focuses on the cultural history of the political, social networks, communication and micropolitics, plurality in the transition from premodern to modern societies, empires and colonialism, manuscript studies and palaeography, historiography and biographies, foreign and self-representation, education and book culture, and Turkish and Arabic literature of the premodern .

Fonts (selection)

  • The change of ruler in the Mamluk Sultanate. Historical and historiographical studies on Abū Ḥāmid al-Qudsī and Ibn Taġrībirdī . Klaus-Schwarz-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-87997-310-5 .
  • Between the Arab Province and the High Gate. Relations, education and politics of the Ottoman bureaucrat Rāġıb Meḥmed Paşa (d. 1763) . Würzburg 2008, ISBN 3-89913-622-5 .
  • as editor with Tobias Heinzelmann: Book culture in the Middle East of the 17th and 18th centuries . Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-0343-0451-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Sievert, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar of Islam
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century