Jürgen Paul
Jürgen Paul (* 1949 in Lindholm ) is a German Islamic scholar and historian who deals in particular with Islam in Central Asia and eastern Iran in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. He is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Oriental Institute of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .
Paul first studied Romance studies, Slavic studies and pedagogy for the teaching post in Freiburg im Breisgau, Poitiers and Hamburg from 1967 with the state examination in Hamburg in 1974 and then taught French, Russian and philosophy at Hamburg high schools until 1995. In 1982 he began studying Islamic studies in Hamburg with a doctorate in 1989 (summa cum laude). In 1990/91 he was a consultant at the Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society in Istanbul and in 1993 he qualified as a professor in Hamburg in oriental studies. Since 1995 he has been a professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Among other things, he dealt with Sufi brotherhoods, city histories (such as Bukhara , Isfahan , Herat ) and nomads and normadic conquerors from the point of view of the urban population. He worked in source studies (e.g. Sufi manuscripts in Uzbekistan) and on hagiography as a historical source .
Fonts
- Central Asia , New World Fisheries History , 2012.
- Editor with Albrecht Noth : The Islamic Orient. Basics of its history , Würzburg 1998.
- Rulers, polities, mediators: Eastern Iran and Transoxania in pre-Mongol times . Stuttgart 1996 (Beirut texts and studies 59).
- The State and the Military: The Samanid Case . Bloomington (Indiana) 1994 (Papers on Inner Asia 26).
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| SURNAME | Paul, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German scholar of Islam |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Risum-Lindholm |