Stefan Weber (Islamic scholar)

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Stefan Weber (born October 17, 1967 in Aachen ) is a German scholar of Islam and director of the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin .

Life

During his studies from 1990 to 1996 with a master's degree from the University of Bonn , Stefan Weber studied Islamic studies ( Arabic , Persian , Turkish ) and Islamic art history . 1996–2001 he was in the Orient Department ( Damascus ) at the German Archaeological Institute and dealt with the urban and architectural history of Damascus. He received his doctorate in 2001 from the Free University of Berlin and until 2007 was a research fellow at the Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society in Beirut . In charge of art and urban history, he managed restoration and museum projects in Lebanon and Syria .

He then became Assistant Professor of Material History at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations at Aga Khan University in London . At the beginning of July 2008, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation appointed Stefan Weber director of the Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin from February 1, 2009. He is also an honorary professor at the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin .

Services

Stefan Weber led several international and interdisciplinary research, restoration and documentation projects. An important focus of his publications is the architectural history of Syria in the Ottoman period. So he occupied himself u. a. also with the Aleppo room in the Museum of Islamic Art. He also worked on museum concepts and exhibitions.

Stefan Weber is a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites , a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and works on the international committee of the Congress for Turkish Art.

Works

  • Evidence of cultural change: the city, architecture and society of Ottoman Damascus in the 19th and early 20th centuries . Berlin 2006 ( diss.fu-berlin.de - Berlin, Freie Univ. , Diss., 2001).
  • The beginning of the end. The change in painted wood paneling in Damascus in the 18th and 19th centuries . In: Julia Gonnella , Jens Kröger (Ed.): Angels, Peonies, and Fabulous Creatures: The Aleppo Room in Berlin. International Symposium of the Museum for Islamic Art - National Museums in Berlin 12. – 14. April 2002 . 1st edition. Rhema, Münster, Westphalia 2008, ISBN 978-3-930454-82-2 , p. 153-164 .
  • The Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire . In: J. Hanssen, Th. Philipp, Stefan Weber (eds.): Beirut texts and studies . tape 88 . Beirut 2002.
  • Damascus: Ottoman Modernity and Urban Transformation (1808-1918) . Aarhus University Press, Aarhus 2009, ISBN 978-87-7934-424-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Aga Khan University
  2. ↑ Stefan Weber, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations ( Memento from May 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ New director of the Museum of Islamic Art, press release July 3, 2008 ( Memento from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, press archive 2008 ( Memento from September 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); PDF; 27 kB)
  4. ↑ Honorary professors . Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  5. ^ Project list 1997-2005
  6. ↑ a b c short vita . Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  7. ↑ List of publications by Stefan Weber, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations ( Memento from May 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar of Islam
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen