Martin van Bruinessen

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Martin van Bruinessen (born July 10, 1946 in Schoonhoven ) is a Dutch sociologist .

He studied physics, mathematics (graduation 1971) and then anthropology and sociology at the University of Utrecht . Between 1974 and 1976 he conducted many field surveys among the Kurds in Iraq , Iran and Turkey . In 1978 he submitted his dissertation Agha, Shaikh and State. On the Social and Political Organization of Kurdistan presented his most important work to date. This soon became a standard work of comparative social research, although it had not appeared in bookshops until the German translation of its revised version in 1989. Van Bruinessen describes the social-religious structures of the Kurds.

In 1977 van Bruinessen began research on Ottoman history at the University of Utrecht . In 1988 the work Evliya Çelebi was published in Diyarbekir . From 1978 to 1981 he traveled very often to Iran, Turkey and Afghanistan . In addition to the Kurds and Turkey, from 1982 onwards he also dealt a lot with Indonesia , where he stayed for six years. There he taught sociology at the University of Yogyakarta .

From 1994 van Bruinessen taught Kurdish and Turkish at the University of Utrecht. From 1996 to 1997 he was visiting professor for Kurdish studies at the Free University of Berlin .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • with Hendrik Boeschoten : Evliya Çelebi in Diyarbekir: The Relevant Section of the Seyahatname edited with translation, commentary and introduction (= Evliya Çelebi's: Land and people of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century. A corpus of partial editions, Vol. 1), Brill, Leiden 1988, ISBN 9004081658
  • Agha, Sheikh and State - Politics and Society of Kurdistan (German translation of the dissertation from 1978, with revisions), Edition Parabolis, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3884022598

Editorships

  • with Stefano Allievi: Producing Islamic knowledge: transmission and dissemination in Western Europe. Routledge, Abingdon et al. 2010, ISBN 978-0-415-35592-6 .
  • with Julia Day Howell: Sufism and the 'modern' in Islam. Tauris, London et al. 2007, ISBN 978-1-85043-854-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin van Bruinessen: Agha, Sheik and State - Politics and Society of Kurdistan , Edition Parabolis, Berlin 1989, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Bruinessen, Martin van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Schoonhoven