Georg Stauth


Georg Stauth is a German sociologist of Islam. In his works he applies perspectives derived from Weber, Nietzsche and Foucault to an empirical and historically informed “Islamwissenschaft”.

Biography

Educated in Darmstadt, he went on to study ‘Islamwissenschaft’, sociology and philosophy in Frankfurt am Main and Giessen, where he took a D.Phil. His first employment as a full academic was at Alexandria University, Egypt 1969 to 1971, from where he returned to Bochum and Strasbourg. In 1974 he became a lecturer in sociology at Bielefeld where he also served a professorship. He held various fellowships in Oxford, Singapore Adelaide Geelong/Melbourne and also at universities in Egypt. He returned to Bielefeld in 1996. In 2000 he started with the University of Mainz his researches on ‘Saintly Places in Egypt’. From 2003 to 2006 he also directed an international study group at the KWI, Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities, in Essen on ‘Islam and Modernity’. He serves at the Advisory Board of ‘Theory, Culture and Society’ and is the co-founder of the ‘Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam’.

Selected publications