Staff - 3rd phase of research

Dr. Johann Büssow

Main fields of research:

History of the modern Middle East • History of the Ottoman Empire • History of ideas in the modern and early modern Islamic World with a focus on Arabic and Ottoman Turkish literature.

Since May 2012 research associate at Orient-Institut Beirut • 2008-2012 research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre 586 "Difference and Integration" • Research in Syria, Lebanon, 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, to be published in 2013).

(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 2013).

“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 2013).

“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. Stuttgart: Reichert, 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.

Booklet

Geschichtsort Jaffator: Osmanische Kommunalverwaltung und bürgerschaftliches Engagement in Jerusalem, 1867-1917. Berlin: Aphorisma, 2012.

Articles in Encyclopedias and Handbooks

(with Astrid Meier) art. “`Anaza”, Encyclopedia of Islam Three. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

art. „Osmanisches Reich“, in Kleines ABC des Nomadismus. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde 2011, pp. 152-154.

art. „Postnomadische Lebensweise“, in Kleines ABC des Nomadismus. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde 2011, p. 164.

(mit Thorsten Schoel) art. „Recht und Gesetz“, in Kleines ABC des Nomadismus. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde 2011, pp. 172-173.

(mit Angelika Berlejung und Stefan Leder) art. „Stamm“, in Kleines ABC des Nomadismus. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde 2011, pp. 200-201.

art. „Steppen und Wüsten“, in Kleines ABC des Nomadismus. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde 2011, p. 206.

(mit Sandra Calkins, Annegret Nippa und Ulf Scharrer) art. „Wirtschaftlicher Austausch“, in Kleines ABC des Nomadismus. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde 2011, pp. 242-245.

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.