Johann Büssow (born 1973) is a historian of the modern

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. He is professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the

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Academic career

Johann Büssow studied

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

Islamic studies Islamic studies is the academic study of Islam, which is analogous to related fields such as Jewish studies and Quranic studies. Islamic studies seeks to understand the past and the potential future of the Islamic world. In this multidiscipli ...

and

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. He has taught five years at

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...

, where he also obtained a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies in 2008. Later he has worked as a research associate at the German Orient-Institut in

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and at the Research Centre ‘Difference and Integration’ (SFB 586) at the

University of Halle-Wittenberg Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (), also referred to as MLU, is a public research university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg. It is the largest and oldest university in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. MLU offers German and i ...

, Germany. From 2013 to 2018 he had been professor of Islamic History and Culture at the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (; ), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The University of Tübingen is one of eleven German Excellenc ...

. Johann Büssow is section editor for the history of the Arab world from 1500 to the present of the ''

Encyclopaedia of Islam The ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'' (''EI'') is a reference work that facilitates the Islamic studies, academic study of Islam. It is published by Brill Publishers, Brill and provides information on various aspects of Islam and the Muslim world, Isl ...

Three ''(Brill, Leiden) and co-editor of the book series 'Studien zur Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte Westasiens und Nordafrikas' (LIT Verlag, Berlin u.a.).

Current projects

Johann Büssow's research focuses on the social and political history of the modern Middle East and intellectual history in the modern Islamic world since the eighteenth century. Together with a team of historians around Yuval Ben-Bassat (

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) and Khaled Safi ( Gaza) he is currently working on Gaza and its region during the late Ottoman period. With the historian Stefan Rohdewald (

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) he co-directs a research project on Palestine as a region of migration during the transition from late Ottoman to British Mandatory rule, in the framework of the research cluster "Transottomanica". With Astrid Meier (Beirut), he is preparing a book-length study with the tentative title "Bedouin Syria: The Arid Lands of the Middle East, 1516–2011". Together with several colleagues from

Tübingen Tübingen (; ) is a traditional college town, university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer (Neckar), Ammer rivers. about one in ...

, he is conducting an interdisciplinary research project on the history of oasis towns in Oman.

Published books

* Büssow, Johann (2011).
Hamidian Palestine
Politics and Society in the District of Jerusalem, 1872-1908''. Leiden: Brill, . * — (2012). ''Geschichtsort Jaffator: Osmanische Kommunalverwaltung und bürgerschaftliches Engagement in Jerusalem, 1867-1917''. Berlin: Aphorisma, . * — with Khaled Safi (2013).
Damascus Affairs
Egyptian Rule in Syria through the Eyes of an Anonymous Damascene Chronicler, 1831-1840''. Würzburg: Ergon, .

References

External links

Gaza during the late Ottoman period

Project ’Transottomanica’

* ttps://www.uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/aoi/orient-islamwissenschaft/forschung/settlement-and-society-in-premodern-oman.html History of oasis towns in Oman {{DEFAULTSORT:Büssow, Johann Living people 1973 births 21st-century German historians Historians of the Middle East Academic staff of the University of Tübingen Free University of Berlin alumni