Michael Ursinus

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Michael Ursinus (born September 16, 1950 in Kiel ) is a German scholar of Islam.

Life

From 1973 to 1980 he studied Islamic studies, Turkish studies, African studies and social and economic history at the University of Hamburg . After receiving his doctorate in 1981 on reform efforts in Ottoman Rumelia before the start of Tanzimat in the narrower sense (on this, archive studies in Sarajevo , Skopje and Istanbul 1976-78), he was an assistant at the Institute for History and Culture of the Near East and Turkology in Munich from 1981 to 1984 . From 1984 to 1989 he was a University Lecturer in Ottoman Studies at the Center for Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek at the University of Birmingham ; development of the Ottoman studies there (title of the Center since 1988: Center for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies ); since 1989 Honorary Research Fellow there.

From 1989 to 1992 he taught as a professor (C3) for Islamic and Turkish Studies at the Oriental Seminary at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . From 1992 to 2016 he was Professor (C4) for Islamic Studies (Ottoman Studies) at the Seminar for Languages ​​and Cultures of the Middle East at Heidelberg University . Since 2006 he has been President of the CIEPO (Comité international des études pré-ottomanes et ottomanes).

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