Otfried Weintritt

Otfried Weintritt (born March 30, 1955 in Gaggenau ) is a German orientalist and Islamic scholar .

Life

Weintritt studied Islamic studies, modern German literary history and history at the University of Freiburg . In 1982/83 he stayed in Kuwait to study and received his doctorate in 1988 in Islamic Studies. He then wrote articles for the handbook of historical book collections . 1990 to 1996 activities at the Universities of Münster (assistant substitute) and Freiburg, where he wrote volume 27 of the biographical lexicon of Ṣalāḥaddīn Ḫalīl b. Aybak aṣ-Ṣafadī edited (DFG project); This was followed by a post-doctoral fellowship from the DFG. 2001 to 2003 participation in the project “Der Europäische Sonderweg” of the Breuninger Foundation Stuttgart.

Weintritt completed his habilitation in Bonn in 2007, after which he prepared an expert report for the sixth report on the elderly on behalf of the federal government . From 2008 to 2013 he was a lecturer at the Universities of St. Gallen and Zurich, and from 2010 to 2011 as a substitute professor at the Asia-Orient Institute at the University of Tübingen . From 2009 to 2015 he examined the faḍāʾil genre in Islamic-Arabic literature (DFG project).

He is a private lecturer at the University of Bonn. His areas of work include material-rich genre studies of Islamic-Arabic literature (historiography, Faḍāʾil) as well as cultural, social and intellectual history analyzes of the Islamic order of life. He researches the question of the requirements and consequences of the Islamic lifestyle. In addition, the historical climate research of the Middle East, Persia and North India is another of his main focuses.

Publications

Images of old age in Islam and among Muslims in Germany and images of the body in Islam, in: F. Berner, J. Rossow, K.-P. Schwitzer, individual and cultural images of old age. Expertise on the sixth report on the elderly by the Federal Government, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2012, pp. 231–87.
The Floods of Baghdad: Cultural and Technological Responses, in: Christof Mauch and Christian Pfister (eds.), Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses. Case Studies toward a Global Environmental History, Lanham: Lexington Books 2009, pp. 165–182.
Transportation in the Islamic world. in: Rolf Peter Sieferle / Helga Breuninger, Transport History in International Comparison Europe - China - Middle East, Stuttgart 2004, pp. 238–302. And in: Rolf Peter Sieferle, Transportgeschichte, Berlin 2008, pp. 143–207.
Interpretations of time in Islam, in: Klaus Müller & Jörn Rüsen, Historische Sinnbildung, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1997, pp. 296–306. As well as: Interpretations of Time in Islam, Jörn Rüsen, Time and History. The Variety of Cultures, New York, Oxford 2007, pp. 85-92.
Rawḍa, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 8, Leiden 1994, pp. 463-465.

Individual evidence

Web links

Literature by Otfried Weintritt in the catalog of the German National Library
Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies (IOA) at the University of Bonn

personal data
SURNAME	Stepping out, Otfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 30, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gaggenau