Raoul Motika

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Raoul Motika (* 1961 ) is a German orientalist . He is director of the Oriental Institute Istanbul and professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Hamburg .

Life

Motika studied history and culture of the Middle East from 1984 to 1992 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (MA 1992) and the universities in Izmir (Turkey) and Tehran (Iran). Then he was a university assistant at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1997 he was in Islamic Studies with a thesis Political public in Tabriz the Mašrûtiyyat time in the mirror of the newspaper Âzarbâyğân (1907) to Dr. phil. PhD. He then became a research assistant at the Seminar for Languages ​​and Cultures of the Middle East / Islamic Studies. At the same time he was working on his habilitation on the topic of The Turkish Da'wa and the Development of Islam in the Caucasus and (in selected regions) the Russian Federation since the fall of the Soviet Union .

From 1999 to 2002 he and Michael Ursinus supervised the DFG project “A new role for an old ruling people in the mirror of its press (1878–1940): Turkish Muslims of the Dobruja in search of post-imperial identity in the nation state of Romania ” and from 2002 to 2006 the project "Ritual transfer among marginalized religious groups in the Near East and in the Diaspora ( Alevis , Nusayrier , Jezidis )". In 2011 the project " Buyruk Manuscripts in Alevism: Collective Manuscripts as Carriers and Conveyors of Religious Knowledge Between Written and Oral" followed at the University of Hamburg , which continues to this day. He also coordinated two major projects of the Volkswagen Foundation at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Since 2003 he has been director of the Heidelberg Center for Euro-Asian Studies (HECEAS). In 2005/06 he was assistant professor for Islamic studies at the University of Bern . In 2006 he became professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Hamburg. In 2008 he founded the Turkey Europe Center (TEZ). Already a member of the advisory board of the Orient Institute Istanbul in 2009/10, he took over the management in 2010.

He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Journal of Turkish Studies . He is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Iranistik . He is series editor of Heceas - Current Debate ( Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag ) and co-editor of the series Heidelberg Studies on the History and Culture of the Modern Middle East and Caucasian Studies .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Christoph Herzog, Michael Ursinus (eds.): Studies in Ottoman social and economic life = studies on economy and society in the Ottoman Empire . Heidelberger Orientverlag, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-927552-23-2 .
  • with Michael Ursinus (ed.): Caucasia between the Ottoman empire and Iran, 1555–1914 (= Caucasus Studies . Vol. 2). Reichelt, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-89500-139-2 .
  • The political public of Iranian Azerbaijan during the constitutional revolution in the mirror of the Tabriz newspaper Āẕarbāyǧān (= Heidelberg studies on the history and culture of the modern Middle East . Vol. 28). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-631-35369-3 .
  • with Michael Kemper , Anke von Kügelgen (Ed.): Repression, Adjustment, Reorientation. Studies on Islam in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet area (= Caucasian Studies . Vol. 12). Reichelt, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-89500-916-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV of Prof. Dr. Raoul Motika. In: aai.uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Motika, Raoul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961