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, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

Islamic studies Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, and generally to academic multidisciplinary "studies" programs—programs similar to others that focus on the history, texts and theologies of other religious traditions, such as Easter ...

and Jewish studies. 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 research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

, 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

Beirut Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...

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

University of Halle-Wittenberg Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university 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 (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-W� ...

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

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

) 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

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, 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’

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