Bassam Tibi

Bassam Tibi ( _ar. بسام طيبي), born 1944 in Damascus, lives in Germany since 1962 and, since 1976, he is a German citizen. He is a political scientist and Professor of International Relations. He is a Muslim [ [http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/voices/transcript/?content=20070329 Antisemitism | Voices on Antisemitism | Transcript ] ] , but a staunch critic of Islamism and an advocate of reforming Islam itself [ [http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,440340,00.html Interview with German Islam Expert Bassam Tibi: "Europeans Have Stopped Defending Their Values" - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News ] ] . In academia, he is known for his analysis of international relations and the introduction of Islam to the study of international conflict and of civilization. He studied in Frankfurt am Main and habilitated in Hamburg, Germany. Since 1973, he has been teaching international politics at Göttingen University. From 1982 to 2000, he was at Harvard University in a variety of affiliations, the latest from 1998 to 2000 as The Bosch Fellow of Harvard. Currently, he is an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. Tibi is perhaps best known for introducing the controversial concept of "Leitkultur" as well as the concept of "Euroislam" for the integration of Muslim immigrants in Europe. He is also the founder of "Islamology" as a social-scientific study of Islam and conflict. Tibi has done research in Asian and African countries. He publishes in English, German and Arabic.

Published works

Books

*"The Crisis of Modern Islam: A Preindustrial Culture in the Scientific-Technological Age". Translated by Judith von Sivers. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988.
*"Islam and the Cultural Accommodation of Social Change". Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990.
*"Conflict and War in the Middle East: From Interstate War to New Security", new expanded ed. 1998, published in association with WCFIA/Harvard University.
*"Arab Nationalism. Between Islam and the Nation-State", first ed. 1980, second ed. 1990, third expanded and revised ed. 1997, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
*"The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder". Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998; updated edition 2002. ISBN 0-520-23690-4 Author's abstract: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6525/6525.abs.html
*"Islam between Culture and Politics". Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York Cambridge, Mass: Palgrave, in association with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Harvard University, 2001. 2nd edition, 2005. ISBN 1403949905
*"Crusade and Jihad: Islam and the Christian World". Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, München, Random House GmbH, 2001 ISBN 963-13-5238-2
*"Political Islam, World Politics and Europe". Routledge, New York, 2008. ISBN 0415437814

Articles and book chapters

*"The Renewed Role of Islam in the Political and Social Development of the Middle East." "Middle East Journal" 37, no. 1 (1983): 3-13.
*"Islam and Modern European Ideologies." "International Journal of Middle East Studies" 18, no. 1 (1986): 15-29.
*"Islam and Arab Nationalism." In "Islamic Impulse", ed. Barbara Freyer Stowasser, 59-74. London; Washington, D.C.: Croom Helm ; Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 1987.
*"The European Tradition of Human Rights and Culture of Islam." In "Human Rights in Africa Cross Cultural Perspectives", ed. Abdullahi Ahmed An Na`im and Francis M. Deng, 104. Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 1990.
*"The Simultaneity of the Unsimultaneous - Old Tribes and Imposed Nation-States in the Modern Middle East." In "Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East", ed. Philip S. Khoury and Joseph Kostiner, 127-152. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
*"Islamic Law/Shari'a, Human Rights, Universal Morality and International Relations." "Human Rights Quarterly" 16, no. 2 (1994): 277.
*"The Worldview of Sunni Arab Fundamentalists: Attitudes toward Modern Science and Technology." In "Fundamentalisms and Society", ed. Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appelby, 73-102. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
*"War and Peace in Islam." In "Ethics of War and Peace", ed. Terry Nardin, 128-145. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
*"The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Secular Order in the Middle East." "Fletcher Forum of World Affairs" 23 (1999): 191-210.
*"Post-Bipolar Order in Crisis: The Challenge of Politicised Islam." "Millennium" 29, no. 3 (2000): 843-860.
*"Eurpeanizing Islam or the Islamization of Europe," in: Peter Katzenstein, ed., Religion in an Expanding Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
*"The Totalitarianism of Jihadist Islamism and its Challenge to Europe and to Islam." in: "Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions", Vol. 8, No. 1, March 2007, 35–54.
*"A Migration Story: From Muslim Immigrants to European “Citizens of the Heart?“" in: "Fletcher Forum of World Affairs" Vol.31 (Winter 2007) 1: 191-210.
*"Euro-Islamic Religious Pluralism for Europe. An Alternative to Ethnicity and to "Multiculturalism of Fear"," in: "The Current", Vol. 11 (Fall 2007) 1: 89-103.
*"Islamism and Democracy: The Case of the Arab World," in: Leonard Weinberg, ed., Democratic Responses to Terrorism (New York: Routledge, 2008), 41-61.

References

External links

* [http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~uspw/iib/index.html Homepage of Bassam Tibi]
* [http://www.signandsight.com/features/1258.html Europeanisation, not Islamisation] Bassam Tibi argues for Euro-Islam as a bridge between civilisations