Bassam Tibi

Bassam Tibi, born 1944 in Damascus, is a political scientist of Syrian origin with German citizenship known for his analysis of international relations concerning Islamic countries and civilisation. Being a Muslim himself, he is known for his fair and unbiased view of Islam. He studied in Frankfurt am Main and habilitated in Hamburg, Germany. Since 1973 he teaches international politics at Göttingen University. In 1982 he was Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. He has done research in Asian and African countries. He publishes in English, German and Arabic.

Published Works

Books

• "Arab Nationalism : A Critical Enquiry." Translated by Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981.

• "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.

• "Arab Nationalism : A Critical Enquiry." Translated by Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett. 2nd ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.

• "Islam and the Cultural Accommodation of Social Change." Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990.

• "Conflict and War in the Middle East, 1967-91 : Regional Dynamic and the Superpowers." Translated by Clare Krojzl. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

• "Arab Nationalism : Between Islam and the Nation-State." 3rd ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.

• "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.

Articles

• "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.ar:بسام طيبي

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