Orient Institute Beirut
| Orient Institute Beirut | |
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 OIB logo |
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| Category: | Scientific institution |
| Carrier: | Max Weber Foundation - German humanities institutes abroad |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Federal direct foundation |
| Seat of the wearer: | Bonn |
| Facility location: | Beirut, Lebanon |
| Branch office: | Cairo, Egypt |
| Type of research: | Past and present of the Middle East and Arab societies |
| Subjects: | Interdisciplinary research (Arabic studies, Islamic studies, history, political science, anthropology, literary studies, etc.) |
| Areas of expertise: | Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Basic funding: | Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
| Management: | Birgit Schäbler |
| Employee: | approx. 30 |
| Homepage: | http://www.orient-institut.org/ |
The Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) is one of the ten German institutes abroad of the direct federal Max Weber Foundation - German Humanities Institutes Abroad .
The OIB was founded in 1961 by the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft and has been part of the Max Weber Foundation based in Bonn since 2003. The donor of the foundation is the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . The OIB conducts and promotes research on the past and present of the Middle East and the Arab world. It performs this task in collaboration with academic institutions and researchers in the region.
history
The Orient-Institut Beirut was founded in 1961 by the German Oriental Society. The institute was financed by the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT, today BMBF), the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation . In 2003 the OIB was accepted into the Max Weber Foundation. The Orient-Institut Istanbul (OI Istanbul), which has been a subsidiary of the OIB since 1987, became an independent institute within the Max Weber Foundation in 2009. Since 2010 the OIB has been working more closely with partners in Egypt.
Tasks and academic profile
Research on the past and present of the Middle East and the Arab world gives space to a broad spectrum of research interests and methods in the humanities and social sciences. Religion and the history of ideas, history and society, literature, language and politics - and the corresponding disciplines are taken into account, among other things. The common foundation is the scientific study of sources, actors and developments in the region.
Another area of responsibility of the Orient-Institut Beirut is the promotion of young scientists. For this reason, the OIB employs scientific speakers and supports post-docs, research stays and scholarship holders. The OIB works with numerous academic institutions, mostly in the form of scientific events (symposia, congresses) and scientific projects.
Library
The OIB's public library comprises 130,000 volumes and 1,700 journals and offers online catalogs as well as WiFi. The collection includes studies of the Islamic religion as well as philosophy, literature, history and contemporary history of the Middle East. Books on art history, science, geography and a substantial body of travel literature are also available. Further sources are collected in Western languages, in Arabic and Persian as well as Turkish. The library contains a large number of Lebanese fiction and academic literature from a variety of genres and subjects. These are complemented by academic literature from related disciplines, including political science, social anthropology, and sociology.
Publication series
The OIB issues two publication series and one online publication series.
- In the Bibliotheca Islamica series (النشرات الإسلامية / an-Našarāt al-Islāmiyya ) manuscripts have been edited in book form since the 11th century. These critical editions include Arabic, Persian and Turkish texts and thematically range from history and prosopography to literature and theology to Sufism.
- In the Beirut Texts and Studies series , scientific studies, monographs and conference reports are published in German, English, Arabic and French.
- In cooperation with the Orient-Institut Istanbul, the OIB publishes the online publication series Orient-Institut Studies on perspectivia.net. This series of publications aims to combine regional and transregional perspectives from the Middle East and Euro-Asian Studies.
Directors list
- 1961 - 1963 Hans Robert Roemer
- 1963 - 1968 Fritz Steppat
- 1968 - 1973 Stefan Wild
- 1974 - 1978 Peter Bachmann
- 1979 - 1980 Ulrich Haarmann
- 1981 - 1984 Gernot Rotter
- 1984 - 1989 Anton Michael Heinen
- 1989 - 1994 Erika Glassen
- 1994 - 1999 Angelika Neuwirth
- 1999 - 2007 Manfred Kropp
- 2007 - 2017 Stefan Leder
- since October 1, 2017 Birgit Schäbler
literature
- Peskes, Esther / Strohmeier, Martin (eds.): 1961–1991 Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society. Istanbul: Türk Hoechst 1991.
- Orient-Institut Beirut (Ed.): 50 Years of Orient-Institut Beirut: Five Decades of German Research in / on the Near East. 1961–2011, Beirut 2011.
- Rotter, Gernot / Köhler, Wolfgang: Orient Institute of the Oriental Society in Beirut. Beirut: Imprimerie Catholique 1981.
- Orient-Institut Beirut: Annual report 2011 (PDF; 4.5 MB)
- Foundation of German Humanities Institutes Abroad (DGIA): Annual Report 2009–2010, pp. 190–197 (PDF; 4.4 MB)