Georg Stauth

Georg Stauth ( born August 28, 1942 in Otter Mountain Palatinate ) is a German Islamic scholar and sociologist. He is considered one of the founders of modern sociology of Islam. In his work he combines sociological studies, especially to Max Weber, Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault, with an empirical and historical Islamic Studies

Biography

1962 put Stauth at the Lichtenberg school - Gymnasium for boys - in his high school diploma from Darmstadt. He studied Oriental Studies, English Literature and Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt ( until 1965 ) and doctorate (1969 ) in the subjects of Islamic studies, sociology and philosophy at the Justus -Liebig- University of Giessen. Then he took up his first academic appointment at a DAAD lecturer at the University of Alexandria in Egypt. After working as a consultant for teaching and educational reform in the Rectorate of the University of Bochum and in the College Division of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, he began in 1974 at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University in emphasis to teach sociology of development. Where he led over many years the Middle East Department of the Research Program of Development Sociology. He took professorships, visiting professorships, Research and Teaching Fellowships, among other things at the following universities true: Egypt: Ain Shams University (1977 /78 2010), Cairo University (1981); Durham University, England (1983); Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia ( 1985); Middle East Centre, St Antony 's College, Oxford (1988-1990); National University of Singapore (1990-1992). Stauth habilitated in 1988 in Bielefeld with a font " Islam and Western rationalism ". From 1992 onwards, with a break at Deakin University ( Melbourne / Geelong ) Australia (1995 /6), he taught again in Bielefeld. He also took on the management of a research project on cultural change in Egypt (2000-2007) at the Collaborative Research Centre " cultural change " of the Gutenberg University Mainz and an international study group on " Islam and Modernity" at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen (2003-2006).

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the journal " Theory, Culture and Society " (Sage ), and founded the " Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam" (LIT - Verlag; transcript- Verlag), for which he served as co-editor.

Research priorities

The research priorities of Stauth are interdisciplinary, ranging from sociology and Islamic studies to anthropology, religious studies and philosophy. He worked a long time in extensive field research on the relationship between farmers and the state, rural labor migration, structural and cultural modernization (Egypt / Turkey), later intense, with the sociology of Islam, theories of modernity, the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche in the work of Max Weber Klages and the Frankfurt School, Jaspers, Foucault and Islam. In addition, he devoted himself to themes of Western " Orientalism ", as recently with the " exile " of the conservative Frankfurter orientalist Hellmut Ritter. Recent field research led him to the Nile to Egypt's sacred places.

Publications (selection )

• The fellah in the Nile Delta. Wiesbaden: Steiner 1984.
• Nietzsche 's Dance. ( co-authored ) Oxford: Blackwell 1988.
• Islam and Western rationalism. Frankfurt am Main: Campus 1994.
• Authenticity and cultural globalization. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 1999.
• Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia. Bielefeld: transcript, 2002.
• Egyptian sacred places, Vol I-III. Bielefeld: Transcript 2005-2010.
• Challenge Egypt. Bielefeld: transcript, 2010.
• Shock waves Tahrir. Bad König: Vantage Point World - Verlag, 2011.