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Georg Stauth

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PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, 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’ .

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Nostalgia, Postmodernism and the Critique of Mass Culture (1988) (85)
OCCIDENTAL REASON, ORIENTALISM, ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM: A CRITIQUE (1988) (39)
Nietzsche's Dance: Resentment, Reciprocity and Resistance in Social Life (1988) (34)
REVOLUTION IN SPIRITLESS TIMES. AN ESSAY ON MICHEL FOUCAULT'S ENQUIRIES INTO THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION (1991) (33)
Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia in the Nineteen-nineties (2002) (27)
Civilization and State Formation in the Islamic Context: Re-Reading Ibn Khaldūn (2004) (21)
Mass Culture, Popular Culture, and Social Life in the Middle East (1987) (14)
Nietzsche, Weber, and the affirmative sociology of culture (1992) (11)
Capitalist farming and small peasant households in Egypt. (1990) (8)
Islam : motor or challenge of modernity (1998) (8)
Dimensions of Locality: Muslim Saints, their Place and Space (Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam No. 8) (2008) (8)
Nietzsche's Dance (1988) (7)
Women Properties and Migration: Access to Land and Local Conflicts in Rural Egypt (1990) (7)
`Elias in Singapore': Civilizing Processes in a Tropical City (1997) (6)
Ludwig Klages (1872-1956) and the Origins of Critical Theory (1992) (5)
Islam in Process: Historical and Civilizational Perspectives (2006) (4)
Islam in Process: Historical and Civilizational Perspectives (Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam 7) (2007) (3)
Islam in Africa (2002) (3)
Remigration and social change--prospects for the migrant worker sending countries of the Middle East. (1987) (2)
Poverty and landlessness in Kelantan, Malaysia (1985) (2)
Slave Trade, Multiculturalism and Islam in Colonial Singapore: A Sociological Note on Christian Snouck Hurgronje's 1891 Article1 on Slave Trade in Singapore (1992) (2)
Afterword: Holism, Individualism, Secularism (2005) (2)
Ludwig Klages and the Origins of Critical Theory (1992) (2)
Critical theory and pre-fascist social thought (1994) (2)
On Archaeology of Sainthood and Local Spirituality in Islam: Past and Present Crossroads of Events and Ideas (Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam 5) (2004) (2)
Contemporary Processes within System, Cultures and Life Worlds: Some Reflections on Colonization and Resistance in Everyday Life (1988) (2)
Can Sociology Swallow Nietzsche (1992) (2)
Chapter 3. Remixing Songs, Remaking MULIDS: The Merging Spaces of Dance Music and Saint Festivals in Egypt (2008) (2)
Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia (2002) (2)
Leonard Binder and the Hermeneutic of Authenticity - Critical Note (1993) (1)
Chapter 6. ´Abdallah b. Salam: Egypt, Late Antiquity and Islamic Sainthood (2007) (1)
Iran : precapitalism, capitalism, and revolution (1980) (1)
Ort eins: Kafr al-Άmir Άbdallah b. Salam bei Sinbelawin (Tell Thmuis – Mendes) (2005) (0)
Muslim Saints and Modernity (2004) (0)
Introduction. Muslim Saints and Modernity (2004) (0)
II.2 The Axial Age and Islam (2012) (0)
Confronting the Legacy of Antiquity (2012) (0)
6. The Singapore Civilization (2002) (0)
Lines of Conflict of Egyptian Society 1986-1988: Remigration, Segregation, Islam (Survey of Returned Migrants from 6 Egyptian Villages) (1990) (0)
Authors and editors (1999) (0)
Ort zwei: Barq al-Ίzz bei Mansura (2005) (0)
Contextualizing a Vision: Psalmanaazaar, Formosa and Anthropology (1998) (0)
7. Asian Crisis and the End of Islamization (2002) (0)
Confronting the Legacy of Antiquity Pharaonism, Islam, and Archaeology – A Retrospective on Local Islam and Modernity (2012) (0)
2. Indonesia – Malaysia: Structures of Embeddedness of Islam and the Multi-Ethnic Condition of Asia (2002) (0)
Lines of Conflict of Egyptian Society 1986-1988: Remigration, Segregation, Islam (Household Census of Six Egyptian Villages: Household Data) (1990) (0)
Book Reviews (1989) (0)
Local Communities and Mass Culture (2019) (0)
II.2 The Axial Age and Islam Reflections on ›World‹ and ›History‹ Today (2012) (0)
Islam and contemporary social change in Africa (introduction) (2002) (0)
Resentment and religion - modern dialogue between Europe and Non-Europe (2006) (0)
Lines of Conflict of Egyptian Society 1986-1988: Remigration, Segregation, Islam (Household Census in 6 Egyptian Villages: Migrant Data) (1990) (0)
Agricultural production and social reproduction. Comparative investigations of the conflicts of agricultural producers in Mexico, West Africa (Benin), Egypt. (1980) (0)
On the Authors and Editors of the Yearbook (2008) (0)
3. Bureaucratism and Proto-Institutionalization of Islam in the Minangkabau Region of West Sumatra (2002) (0)
4. Java Islam: Civil Society and Symbolic Politics of Tradition (2002) (0)
4. Abû al-Wafâ’ (2010) (0)
Agrarian production and social reproduction. Comparative studies of conflicts of agricultural producers in Mexico, West Africa (Benin), Egypt. (1980) (0)
Afterword: Holism, Individualism, (2016) (0)
1. Renaissance, Civilization, Mediterranée: Islam and the Challenge of Modernity in Southeast Asia (2002) (0)
Lines of Conflict of the Egyptian Society 1986-1988: Remigration, Segregation, Islam (Wives of Returned Migrant Workers) (1990) (0)
5. Malaysia: Democracy and State-Islam (2002) (0)

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