Richard Bulliet

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Richard W. Bulliet (born 1940 ) is an American scholar of Islam and history at Columbia University . His main areas of work are the history of Islamic society and institutions, the history of technology and the history of the role of animals in human society.

Life

Bulliet grew up in Illinois . He studied at Harvard , where he received his BA in 1962 and Ph.D. in 1982. acquired. He is the grandson of art critic and journalist Clarence Joseph ("CJ") Bulliet .

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Iran, Islam and the Middle East

Several of his publications deal with Iran and the Islamic world as a whole: The Patricians of Nishapur: a Study in Medieval Islamic History (1972), Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History (1979) and Islam: the View from the Edge (1994). He develops a more comprehensive view in Under Siege: Islam and Democracy (1994) and The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (2004). His study The Camel and the Wheel (1975) combines his interest in technological development, pet ownership and Middle Eastern culture. For example, he works out how small changes in the camel saddle led to military advantages of warfare in early Islam.

Pet ownership

He turned to the history of pet ownership in Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships (2005). Here Bulliet represents the four stages of the relationship between humans and pets:

  • Separation of humans and animals when humans began to see themselves as fundamentally different from animals
  • Predomestication, when animals were used to symbolically represent the human
  • Domestication, the phase of the exploitation, breeding and taming of animals for human purposes but in connection with human life forms
  • Postdomestication, industrial production and consumption with a clear separation between human life and animal husbandry.

Universal story

Bulliet has also authored historical works of a general nature: The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century (editor, 1998), The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (co-editor, 1996), and The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History (co-author, 1997) .

Novels

He has also written several novels that draw on his knowledge of international politics and the Middle East. He supports the recognition of comics as an art form.

His first novel, Kicked to Death by a Camel (1973), was nominated for an Edgar for "Best First Mystery". Other novels include Tomb of the Twelfth Imam (1979), The Gulf Scenario (1984), The Sufi Fiddle (1991) and The One Donkey Solution (2011).

reception

Bulliet's comments on the Middle East as well as his writings on keeping pets have been received in major newspapers around the world, such as the Guardian, the New York Times International, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung . His comments can be found in Agence Global .

Controversy

In an interview in Columbia Magazine , Lee C. Bollinger , President of Columbia University, credits Bulliet with the idea of inviting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a guest lecture and discussion. This invitation was very controversial, but was supported in principle by Senator and presidential candidate Obama as an expression of freedom of expression.

Web links

proof

  1. ^ Deep Historical Perspectives: Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, a Virginia Tech student review . Retrieved March 24, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Time to End US Fear of the Muslim Brotherhood," https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/03/us-fear-muslim-brotherhood
  3. ^ "With or Without Mubarak, the Generals Flourish." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/opinion/12iht-edbulliet12.html
  4. ^ SZ, June 4, 2004, "Whose Theocracy?"
  5. ^ "In the Eye of the Storm" http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Fall2007/EyeOfTheStorm.html
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / abcnews.go.com
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SURNAME Bulliet, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bulliet, Richard W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American scholar of Islam and history at Columbia University
DATE OF BIRTH 1940