Rainer Hermann
Rainer T. Hermann (born June 15, 1956 in Lörrach ) is a German scholar of Islam and journalist .
Life
Rainer Hermann studied economics, from the third semester also Islamic studies (Arabic, Persian, Turkish) at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , the University of Rennes 2 , the University of Basel and in Damascus . In Freiburg he took his degree in economics and was awarded a doctorate in 1989 by Werner Ende with a thesis on Muhammad Kurd Ali and modern Syrian intellectual history. phil. PhD .
Hermann worked as an editor at the Federal Office for Foreign Trade Information (BfAI) in Cologne . In 1990, at the time of the Iraqi invasion, he was a correspondent in Kuwait . From 1991 he was the BfAI correspondent in Istanbul . He kept his place of work when he joined the business department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) in 1998 . In 2008 he moved to Abu Dhabi as a correspondent for the FAZ . In 2012 he returned to the political department of the central editorial office of the FAZ in Frankfurt am Main, where he continues to work with a focus on the Middle East and the Islamic world.
Hermann is the author of six books on Turkey and the Arab world.
Fonts (selection)
- Arab Quake: The Real Causes of the Middle East Crisis. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-608-96211-6 .
- Islamic State terminus? State failure and religious war in the Arab world. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-423-34861-4 .
- The Gulf States: where is the new Arabia going? Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-24875-4 .
- Middle East crisis region. Vontobel Foundation, Zurich 2010.
- Turkey. Vontobel Foundation, Zurich 2009 (with illustrations by Martial Leiter).
- Where is Turkish Society Going? Kulturkampf in Turkey. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-24682-8 .
- Cultural crisis and conservative renewal: Muḥammad Kurd ʻAlī (1876-1953) and the spiritual life in Damascus at the beginning of the 20th century. P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1990 (also: Dissertation Freiburg im Breisgau 1989), ISBN 3-631-42583-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Rainer Hermann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Rainer Hermann in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Rainer Hermann at perlentaucher.de
- Rainer Hermann , at dtv (with photo)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Hermann , at FAZ
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hermann, Rainer |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hermann, Rainer T. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Loerrach |