Gustave E. von Grunebaum

Gustav Edmund von Grunebaum, born Gustav Edmund Knight of Green Tree ( born September 1, 1909 in Vienna, † February 27, 1972 in Los Angeles ) was an American Arabist, orientalist and expert on the Middle East Austrian origin.

Life

At the University of Vienna, he earned a doctorate in Oriental Studies. In 1938, after the Anschluss, he was forced to emigrate to the USA, where he worked first at the Asia Institute in New York City under Arthur Pope. From 1943 he worked at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he in 1949 became Professor of Arabic. In 1957 he became director of the newly established Near Eastern Center of the University of California. Among his most important works is his frequently reprinted book on the Muslim festivals.

Works

  • Muhammadan festivals. Curzon Press, London 1951
  • Medieval Islam. A study in cultural orientation. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1946
  • Criticism and poetry. Studies on the Arab literary history. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1955
  • With Brunschvig R. (ed.): Classicism and cultural decline in Islam / Classicisme et déclin culturel dans l' histoire del'Islam; Symposium international d' histoire de la civilization musulmane. , Besson - Chantemerle, Paris 1957
  • Modern Islam. The search for cultural identity. University of California Press, Berkeley [ua ] 1962
  • Islam in the Middle Ages. Artemis -Verlag, Zurich [ua ], 1963 ( Library of the East )
  • Islam in its classical period 622-1258. Artemis Verlag, Stuttgart, 1966 ( Library of the East )
  • Arab literary history (as ed.), Artemis Verlag, Zurich [ua ] 1968
  • Studies on the cultural image and self- understanding of Islam. Zurich 1969
  • Propylaea world history. Volume 5, half of Volume 1: Islam: The Origin of Europe. Paperback edition, 1976
  • Fischer World History. Volume 15: Islam II The Islamic empires after the fall of Constantinople Opel, (as ed.), Fischer, Frankfurt 1999
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