Ulrich Rebstock

Ulrich Rebstock (born May 18, 1951 in Kirchheim / N. ) Is a German orientalist and professor of Islamic and Arabic studies in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Life

Rebstock received his doctorate in 1983 with “Die Ibadiya im Magrib” and completed his habilitation in 1990 with “Arithmetic in the Islamic Orient” . Since 1993 he has been a full professor of Islamic studies at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg.

His main research areas are

• Usul al-fiqh (Basics of Islamic jurisprudence - Koran , Hadith , Qiyas , Idschma )
• Mauritania
• Arabic math history

He is engaged in the following research projects:

• Critical text edition of the 4th, 5th and 6th parts of Kitab al-A'dad by the Moorish historian Ahmad b. Ahbayyib
• Moorish legal opinion. In collaboration with Yahya Ould El Bara ( Nouakchott ) and David Powers ( Cornell University , Ithaca NY). Edition and printing of approx. 5000 Mauritanian fatawa (16th – 20th century) in 9 volumes.

Moorish literary history

In around 20 years of research, Rebstock has compiled 5,000 authors and 10,000 work titles and collected them in a database, which was also published in book form in 2002 under the title Moorish Literary History . The three-volume work provides for the first time insights into a literature of the Moorish cultural heritage, the existence of which was largely unknown until now.

Publications (selection)

• The brothers' lamp. (Siraj al-ikhwan) from 'Uthman b. Fudi 1985. ISBN 3-936687-31-5
• The Ibadites in the Magrib. (2nd / 8th - 4th / 10th centuries) 1983
• Collection of Arabic manuscripts in Mauritania. Brief descriptions of 2239 manuscript units with indices. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1989, ISBN 3-447-02922-6 .
• Arithmetic in the Islamic Orient. 1992. ISBN 3-534-11317-9
• The riches of the calculator. (Gunyat al-Hussab) by Ahmad b. Tabat. The Arabs - forerunners of arithmetic . 1993, ISBN 3-936687-32-3
• Moorish literary history. , 2001, 3 volumes. ISBN 3-935556-73-X
• At-Tadkira bi-usul al-hisab wa l-fara'id. (Book on the basics of arithmetic and the division of inheritance) by 'Ali ibn al-Hidr al-Qurasi (st. 459/1067) 2001, ISBN 3-8298-4116-7
• The individual and the community. An Islamic Dilemma of Modernity. Lecture given in the summer semester of 2002 at the University of Freiburg
• The »Bridge of Calculating« by Abū Marwān. A poem about the Arabic calendar calculation and astrology. (PDF; 1.8 MB) 2007

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Rebstock in the catalog of the German National Library