Thomas Bauer (Arabist)

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Thomas Jürgen Bauer (born September 27, 1961 in Nuremberg ) is a German Arabist and Islamic scholar .

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Thomas Bauer passed his Abitur in 1980 at the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Oberasbach and then studied Islamic studies, Semitic philology and linguistics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg from 1980 to 1987 . With the work ancient Arabic poetry , he was in 1989 a doctorate . He then worked for a year as a research assistant at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and then from 1991 to 2000 again at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, where he got involved in 1997 with the work Love and Love Poetry in the Arab World of the 9th and 10th century habilitated .

In 2000, Thomas Bauer accepted a professorship for Islamic and Arabic Studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. In the same year he became director of the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies. From 2002 to 2005 he was director of the Center for Religious Studies at the University of Münster. In the 2006/2007 academic year, Bauer was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in the project “The Culture of Ambiguity ”.

The burial at sea of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, criticized Bauer as “hardly to be brought into line with Islamic law”, and he suspected “that the USA simply wanted to have the body disappeared as quickly as possible”.

Bauer states that modern Islam has become less tolerant:

“In classical times, a scholar took pride in knowing as many interpretations of the Koran as possible, not a single one. Secular and religious discourses also co-existed peacefully. "

honors and awards

In 2012 he was accepted into the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 2013 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and in 2018 the Tractatus Prize for The Unification of the World . In 2019, his work Why There Was No Islamic Middle Ages. The legacy of antiquity and the Orient was awarded the wbg book prize for the humanities endowed with 40,000 euros .

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Thomas Bauer has published over 40 publications in specialist journals. The focus is on historical and linguistic studies.

  • The book of plants of Abū Ḥanīfa ad-Dīnawarī . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-447-02822-X .
  • Altarabic poetry . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1989, ISBN 3-447-03289-8 .
  • Love and love poetry in the Arab world of the 9th and 10th centuries . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-447-04104-8 .
  • (Ed.): Everyday life and material culture in the Arabic language and literature . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05009-8 .
  • with Angelika Neuwirth (Ed.): Ghazal as world literature . Ergon, Wuerzburg.
    Part 1: Transformations of a literary genre . 2005, ISBN 3-89913-406-0 .
    Part 2: From a literary genre to a great tradition . 2006, ISBN 3-89913-479-6 .
  • The culture of ambiguity. Another story of Islam. Verlag der Weltreligionen, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-71033-2 .
  • The disambiguation of the world. About the loss of ambiguity and diversity. Reclam, Ditzingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-15-019492-8 .
  • Why there was no Islamic Middle Ages. The legacy of antiquity and the Orient. Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72730-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release , Science Information Service, August 4, 2006.
  2. ↑ His body slipped into the water , Spiegel Online, May 2, 2011.
  3. ↑ Old ideals . A conversation with the Arabist Thomas Bauer. In: The time . 5th January 2012
  4. ↑ NRW Science Academy accepts new members , communication dated May 16, 2012, accessed on May 22, 2012 (PDF file; 51 kB).
  5. ↑ Two WWU researchers receive the highest German research award , Westfälische Nachrichten , December 6, 2012
  6. ↑ Tractatus Prize for Thomas Bauer. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 31, 2018
  7. ↑ First non-fiction book prize “Wissen!” For book about Islam , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on June 6, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Thomas Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Arabist and Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg