Toby Matthiesen

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Moritz "Toby" Matthiesen (* 1984 ) is a German-Swiss historian and Islamic scholar who is currently teaching as a Fellow at the Center for Middle East Studies at St. Antony's College at Oxford University . His main research interests are the history and present of the Shiite minority in Saudi Arabia .

Life

Matthiesen is the son of the Swiss sociologist Claudia Honegger and the German ethnologist Ulf Matthiesen . He studied Islamic Studies , History and Political Science at the Universities of Zurich , Bern and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. There he received his doctorate with a thesis on the Shiites in the Gulf States. Since 2015 he has been a Fellow at the Center for Middle East Studies at St. Antony's College in Oxford, one of the most traditional institutes for teaching and researching the modern Orient in Europe.

Plant and positions

In his writings, Matthiesen deals intensively with the minority policy of the Saudi kingdom and the problematic relationship between the House of Saud , the state ideology of Wahhabism and the Shiites, who traditionally live mainly in the east of the kingdom. Among other things, he advocates the thesis that the "strategic" anti-Shiite stance of the state leadership turned against the latter during the Arab Spring , as the country's Shiite population in particular embraced the protest movements in the region.

Matthiesen's 2014 book "The Other Saudis.Shiism, Dissent, and Sectarianism" was recognized as one of the best Middle Eastern books of the year by author Mark Lynch in the Washington Post . The Middle East think tank Washington Institute for Near East Policy awarded it with its 2015 book prize.

Matthiesen repeatedly criticized the public's unobjective approach to the role of the Gulf States during the Arab Spring. This is "often either neglected or exaggerated". It is important to consider each Gulf state with its respective policies in the region individually.

After the alleged murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate general in Istanbul in October 2018, in an interview with the Reuters news agency , Mathiesen warned that in view of this action under Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman against respected businessmen and critics like Khashoggi, Shiite opponents of the regime would have to be expect even greater severity from the Saudi leadership in the future.

Fonts

Sectarian Gulf. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't . Stanford (Stanford University Press) 2014.

The Other Saudis. Shiism, Dissent, and Sectarianism . Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2015.

"Saudi Arabia and the Cold War" in: Madawi al-Rasheed (ed.), Salman's Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia (London: Hurst & Co, 2018), 217–233.

"Red Arabia: Anti-Colonialism, the Cold War, and the Long Sixties in the Gulf States" , in: Chen Jian, Martin Klimke, Masha Kirasirova, Mary Nolan, Marilyn Young, Joanna Waley-Cohen, (eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties (London: Routledge, 2018), 94-105.

"Sectarianization as Securitization: Identity Politics and Counter-Revolution in Bahrain" , in: Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel (eds.), Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (London: Hurst & Co, 2017), 199-214 .

"Renting the Casbah: Gulf States' Foreign Policy towards North Africa since the Arab Uprisings" , in Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (ed.), The Changing Security Dynamics of the Persian Gulf (London: Hurst & Co, 2017), 43–59.

"Government and Opposition in the Middle East: The 1993 Negotiations Between the Saudi Shia Opposition and King Fahd ", in: Gabriele vom Bruck and Charles Tripp (eds.), Precarious Belonging: Ways of being Shiʿi in non-Shia worlds (London: The Center for Academic Shi'a Studies, 2017), 377-417.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claudia Honegger - biography. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Toby Matthiesen | Chronos Publishing House. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  3. ^ Toby Matthiesen: Curriculum Vitae. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  4. ^ History of the Center | St Antony's College. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  5. ^ Toby Matthiesen: Sectarianism comes back to bite Saudi Arabia . In: Washington Post . November 18, 2014, ISSN  0190-8286 ( washingtonpost.com [accessed December 29, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Toby Matthiesen: The Other Saudis. Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014.
  7. ^ Marc Lynch: The best Middle East political science books of 2014 . In: Washington Post . December 29, 2014, ISSN  0190-8286 ( washingtonpost.com [accessed December 29, 2019]).
  8. ^ Hoffman's Anonymous Soldiers Earns Top Washington Institute Book Prize - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Political confessionalism in the Middle East | NZZ. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Saudi Arabia pumps money into restive Shi'ite quarter it once flattened . In: Reuters . January 19, 2019 ( reuters.com [accessed December 29, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Matthiesen, Toby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matthiesen, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss historian and Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1984