Johann Büssow

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Johann Büssow (born November 12, 1973 ) is a German scholar of Islam . He is Professor of Oriental Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum .

Johann Büssow in Bochum 2018

biography

From 1996 to 2002 Büssow studied Islamic and political science and Jewish studies at the universities of Berlin , Cairo and Bonn . From 2003 to 2008 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin, and in 2008 obtained his doctorate in Islamic Studies. After completing his doctorate, he conducted research at the Collaborative Research Center 586 “Difference and Integration” at the University of Halle until 2012 and from 2012 to 2013 as a research assistant at the Orient-Institut Beirut . Johann Büssow became Professor of Islamic History and Culture at the University of Tübingen in 2013 . He accepted the professorship for "Oriental Studies (Arabic and Islamic Studies)" at the Ruhr University Bochum and moved from Tübingen to Bochum for the 2018/19 winter semester.

Büssow's research is mainly concerned with the social and political history of the modern Middle East and the intellectual history of the Islamic world since the 18th century.

Research priorities and scientific activities

Together with a group of historians around Yuval Ben-Bassat (Haifa) and Khaled Safi (Gaza), he is currently researching the history of the city of Gaza and its region in the late Ottoman period . Together with the historian Stefan Rohdewald (Giessen), he is leading a sub-project on Palestine as a migration region in the upheaval between the late Ottoman period and mandate rule within the framework of the "Transottomanica" research network. He is working with Astrid Meier (Beirut) on a monograph with the working title "Bedouin Syria: The Arid Lands of the Middle East, 1516–2011". Together with colleagues from Tübingen he runs an exploratory interdisciplinary research project on the history of oasis settlements in Oman .

Johann Büssow is '' section editor for the history of the Arab world from 1500 to the present '' for the Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (Brill, Leiden et al.) And co-editor of the series 'Studies on the history and contemporary history of West Asia and North Africa' (LIT Verlag , Berlin and others).

He is the author of Hamidian Palestine (Brill, Leiden 2011), a study on politics and society in the Ottoman district of Jerusalem in the era of Sultan Abdülhamid II.

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Vita | Oriental & Islamic Studies | University of Tübingen. Retrieved October 3, 2017 .
  2. ^ Johann Büssow | Oriental & Islamic Studies | University of Tübingen. Retrieved October 3, 2017 .
  3. Publications | Oriental & Islamic Studies | University of Tübingen. Retrieved October 3, 2017 .