Staff - 3rd phase of Research

Dr. Johann Büssow

Main fields of research:

History of the Ottoman Empire • History of the modern Middle East • History from a local perspective • History of ideas in the Islamic World with a focus on Arabic literature.

Since October 2008 research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre 586 "Difference and Integration" • Research in Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey, France, and the UK • 2008 Dr. phil., title of thesis: "Hamidian Palestine: Politics and Society in the District of Jerusalem, 1872-1908" (awarded with the Ernst Reuter Prize) • 2002-2008 lecturer at the Institute for Islamic Studies, Free University Berlin • 2002 M.A. Free University, Berlin (Islamic Studies, Political Science, Jewish Studies).

Selected Publications:

Monographs:

Muhammad Abduh, Die Theologie der Einheit (Risalat at-Tauhid), aus dem Arabischen übersetzt und herausgegeben von Johann Büssow. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag der Weltreligionen im Insel Verlag (in preparation).

(with Khaled Safi) Damascus Affairs: Egyptian Rule in Syria through the Eyes of an Anonymous Damascene Chronicler, 1831-1841. Würzburg: Ergon (in print; to be published in 2012).

Hamidian Palestine: Politics and Society in the District of Jerusalem, 1872-1908. Leiden and Boston: Brill 2011.

Edited Volumes:

(with David Durand-Guédy and Jürgen Paul) Nomadic Peoples 15 (1) (2011). Special issue on Nomads in the Political Field.

(with David Durand-Guédy and Jürgen Paul) Eurasian Studies 11 (1-2) (2011). Special issue on Nomads in the Political Field.

Articles:

‘Muhammad Abduh: The Theology of Unity (Risalat al-Tawhid)’, in Stefan Reichmuth et al (eds), Religious Dynamics under the Impact of Imperialism and Colonialism: A Sourcebook (in preparation; to be published in 2012).

‘Ottoman Reform and Urban Government in Jerusalem, 1867-1917’, in Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi (eds.), New Perspectives in Ottoman Urban Studies. London: Routledge (in preparation; to be published in 2012).

‘Bedouin Historiography in the Making: An Indigenous History of the Hasana Tribe in Syria’, in: Laila Prager (ed.), Repräsentationen von Nomaden und Sesshaften in der ‘Alten Welt’. Münster: Lit-Verlag, 2011, pp. 160-83.

‘Negotiating the Future of a Bedouin Polity in Mandatory Syria: Political Dynamics of the Sba`a-`Abada During the 1930s’, Nomadic Peoples 15 (1) (2011), pp. 68-92.

‚Kooperation und Konflikt: Die Stammeskonföderation der Anaza und die Etablierung moderner Staatlichkeit in der syrischen Steppe‘, in Sandra Calkins and Jörg Gertel (eds), Nomaden in unserer Welt. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2011, pp. 214-25.

‘Street Politics in Damascus: Kinship and other Social Categories as Bases of Political Action, 1830–1841’. History of the Family 16 (2) (2011), pp. 108-25.

“Children of the Revolution: Youth in Palestinian Public Life, 1908-14”, in Yuval Ben-Bassat and Eyal Ginio (eds), Late Ottoman Palestine: The Period of Young Turk Rule. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011, pp. 55-78.

“Mental Maps: The Mediterranean Worlds of Two Palestinian Newspapers in the Late Ottoman Period,” in Meltem Toksoz and Biray Kirli (eds), Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: From Ottoman Times to the Present Day. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010, pp. 100-115.

(with Stephan Roll) „Freiheit, die sie meinen: Die Diagnosen des aktuellen Arab Human Development Report“, Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch 52 (2) (2005), pp. 85-86.

Lexicon Articles:

(with Astrid Meier) art. ‘Anaza’, Encyclopedia of Islam Three. Leiden: Brill (in print, to be published 2012).

art. ‚Osmanisches Reich‘, ABC des Nomadischen. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde (in print, to be published 2011).

art. ‚Postnomadismus‘, ABC des Nomadischen. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde (in print, to be published 2011).

(with Thorsten Schoel) art. ‚Recht und Gesetz‘, ABC des Nomadischen. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde (in print, to be published 2011).

(with Angelika Berlejung and Stefan Leder) art. ‚Stamm‘, ABC des Nomadischen. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde (in print, to be published 2011).

art. „Steppen und Wüsten“, ABC des Nomadischen. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde (in print, to be published 2011).

(with Sandra Calkins, Annegret Nippa and Ulf Scharrer) art. „Wirtschaftlicher Austausch“, ABC des Nomadischen. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde (in print, to be published 2011).

Conference Reports:

(with Christian Hoffmann) ‘Die Syrische Steppe: Innen- und Außenansichten eines Geschichtsraums’. Werkstattgespräch des Sonderforschungsbereichs 586 „Differenz und Integration“ in Zusammenarbeit mit der Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies. 16.05.2011, Berlin, H-Soz-u-Kult, 20 June 2011, http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=3688.

‘The Role of Bedouin and Tribes in the Formation of the Modern State in the Arab East: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 10.06.2010-11.06.2010, Beirut’, H-Soz-u-Kult, 22 July 2010, http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=3207.