Birgit Schäbler

Birgit Schäbler is a historian who is known for her work on Germany, Europe, and Oriental/Islamic studies. She is a professor at the University of Erfurt where she is in the department of Middle East History.

Birgit Schäbler
Academic background
Alma materNürnberg, Univ.
ThesisAufstände im Drusenbergland Ethnizität und Integration einer ländlichen Gesellschaft Syriens vom Osmanischen Reich bis zur staatlichen Unabhängigkeit ; 1850 - 1949 (1994)

Career

Schäbler's academic past includes time studying at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Damascus, and Harvard.[1] In 1994, she received her doctorate with a thesis on the history of the Druzes in Syria, based on archival studies and field research in Syria.[2] In 1997 she was a visiting professor at Duke University, followed by time at Harvard University as a fellow (1997 to 1999), and finally Georgia College & State University. In 2002, she moved to the University of Erfurt. She holds the professorship of History of West Asia (Middle East) at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Erfurt and taught there from 2002 to 2017.[1] Since October 1, 2017, she has been the director of the Orient-Institut Beirut.[3]

Research interests

Schäbler's research combines history with Islamic studies and anthropological fieldwork to address sociological and political questions. She focuses on the social and cultural history of global modernity in its Middle Eastern manifestation.[4] Her work posits that modern and politico-ideologized Islam today emerged in its engagement with Europe in those decades of the late 19th century, a period of radical change in the Middle East and globally.[5] She has researched the history of the Druze Mountain (Hawran), including questions of land tenure[6] and issues of religious alterity in Syria.[7] She has published on issues of nationalism,[8] Islamism, Orientalism,[9][10] and the history of Oriental studies.[11]

Selected publications
  • Schäbler, Birgit (2016). Moderne Muslime Ernest Renan und die Geschichte der ersten Islamdebatte 1883. Paderborn. ISBN 978-3-506-78418-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Schäbler, Birgit (1996). Aufstände im Drusenbergland : ethnizität und Integration einer ländlichen Gesellschaft Syriens vom Osmanischen Reich bis zur staatlichen Unabhängigkeit 1850-1949 (1. Auflg ed.). Gotha: Perthes. ISBN 3-623-00402-2.
    • Peer review of book[12]
  • Globalization and the Muslim world : culture, religion, and modernity (1st ed.). Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. 2004. ISBN 0-8156-3049-2.
    • Peer review of book[13]

References
  1. ""All Things Transregional?" in conversation with… Birgit Schäbler". TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research. 24 November 2016. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  2. Schabler, Birgit (1996). Aufstande im Drusenbergland Ethnizitat und Integration einer landlichen Gesellschaft Syriens vom Osmanischen Reich bis zur staatlichen Unabhangigkeit ; 1850 - 1949 (Thesis) (in German). OCLC 722749851.
  3. "Birgit Schäbler". www.orient-institut.org. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
  4. Birgit Schäbler: "Civilizing Others: Global Modernity and the Local Boundaries (French, German, Ottoman, Arab) of Savagery". In: Birgit Schäbler, Leif Stenberg (eds.): Globalization and the Muslim World. Culture, Religion and Modernity. Syracuse University Press, 2004, pp. 3–29.
  5. Schäbler, Birgit (2016). Moderne Muslime Ernest Renan und die Geschichte der ersten Islamdebatte 1883. Paderborn. ISBN 978-3-506-78418-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. Birgit Schäbler: "Practicing Musha': Common Lands and the Common Good in Southern Syria under the Ottomans and the French", in Roger Owen (ed.), New Perspectives on Property and Land in the Middle East. Harvard University Press, 2000, pp. 241–311.
  7. Birgit Schäbler: Aufstände im Drusenbergland. Ethnizität und Integration einer ländlichen Gesellschaft Syriens vom Osmanischen Reich bis zur staatlichen Unabhängigkeit 1850-1949. Gotha 1996.
  8. Birgit Schäbler: "From Urban Notables to Noble Arabs: Shifting Discourses in the Emergence of Nationalism in the Arab East (1910-1916),". In: Thomas Philipp, Christoph Schumann (eds.): From the Syrian Land to the States of Syria and Lebanon. Beirut, Würzburg 2004, pp. 175–198.
  9. Birgit Schäbler: "Riding the Turns: Edward Saids Buch Orientalism als Erfolgsgeschichte". In: Burkhard Schnepel, Gunnar Brands, Hanne Schönig (eds.): Orient-Orientalistik-Orientalismus. Geschichte und Aktualität einer Debatte. transcript, Bielefeld 2011, pp. 297–302.
  10. Birgit Schäbler: "Post-koloniale Konstruktionen des Selbst als Wissenschaft. Anmerkungen einer Nahost-Historikerin zu Leben und Werk Edward Saids". In: Alf Lüdtke, Rainer Prass (eds.): Gelehrtenleben. Wissenschaftspraxis in der Neuzeit. Köln 2007, pp. 87–100.
  11. Birgit Schäbler: "Historismus versus Orientalismus? Oder: Zur Geschichte einer Wahlverwandtschaft". In: Abbas Poya, Maurus Reinkowski (eds): Das Unbehagen in der Islamwissenschaft. Ein klassisches Fach im Scheinwerferlicht der Politik und der Medien. Bielefeld 2008, pp. 51–70.
  12. Schenk, Bernadette (1999). "Review of Aufstände im Drusenbergland. Ethnizität und Integration einer ländlichen Gesellschaft Syriens vom Osmanischen Reich bis zur staatlichen Unabhängigkeit 1850-1949". Die Welt des Islams. 39 (2): 258–260. ISSN 0043-2539. JSTOR 1571154.
  13. Taher, Mohamed (2006). "Review of Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion, and Modernity". MELA Notes (79): 44–48. ISSN 0364-2410. JSTOR 29785842.
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