Annabelle Boettcher is a German professor, expert on Syria and advisor for the humanitarian aid industry.
Biography
editAnnabelle Boettcher studied Political Science, Law and Islamic Studies in Toulouse (France), Munich, Freiburg, Beirut (Lebanon) and Damascus (Syria). From 1993 to 1997, she was affiliated with the Institut Francais d'Études Arabes de Damas in Damaskus, at the Université Saint Joseph in Beirut and at the Orient-Institut Beirut for her PhD on Sunni state Islam in Syria. She also studied at the Sharia Faculty of Damascus and with a number of Syrian Muslim male and female scholars such as the Naqshbandiyya Shaikh Ahmed Kuftaro, the former Grandmufti of Syria. She published her PhD in German and English.[1] Later she continued her research on Islamic networks with Grandayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Lebanon. Recently, she worked on Islamic culture and health and published a book on spiritual medicine in Muslim Health Management with Birgit Krawietz.[2]
She taught and researched at the Freie Universität in Berlin, Indonesia, Sorbonne University in Paris, Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, and submitted her habilitation in 2006 at the Freie Universität Berlin about transnational Islamic networks. She was guest professor for European Islam at the University of Vienna.[3]
She consulted private and public institutions,[4] and was also a contributor to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.[5]
From 2005 to 2015, she worked as an advisor for humanitarian access, security and frontline negotiations with armed non-state actors for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Iraq, Jordan, Yemen,[6] Niger, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Jordan, Lebanon,[7][8] Syria, and Turkey.[9][10]
From August 2017 to January 2020 she was a professor at the Center for Contemporary Middle East Studies of the Syddansk Universitet in Odense, Denmark.[11] In February 2020 she started to work as a vice-rector and dean of the Faculty for Social Work at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in Villingen-Schwenningen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, where she also teaches as a professor.[12]
She is a fellow of the Robert Bosch Stiftung in the SCIANA - The Health Leaders Network, a European network for health leaders, which is sponsored by the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Germany, The Health Foundation in England and the CAREUM Foundation in Switzerland.[13]
Books
edit- Syrische Religionspolitik unter Asad. Freiburg: ABI, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut, 1998.
- Official Sunni and Shi'i Islam in Syria. Florence: European University Institute, 2002.[14]
- Mit Turban und Handy: Scheich Nazim al-Qubrusi und sein transnationales Sufinetzwerk. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3-89913-857-3 (Habilitationsschrift, FU Berlin, 2006).[15]
- Syria's Sunni Islam under Hafiz al-Asad. E-book, Kindle-Amazon Edition, November 2015.[16]
- Islampolitik in Syrien von 1961 bis 1996. E-Buch. Kindle-Amazon Edition, October 2015.[17]
- Islam, Migration and Jinn: Spiritual Medicine in Muslim Health Management. Böttcher, Annabelle, Krawietz, Birgit (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan 2021.[18]
References
edit- ^ Syria's Sunni Islam under Hafiz al-Asad
- ^ Böttcher, Annabelle; Krawietz, Birgit, eds. (2021). Islam, Migration and Jinn. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-61247-4. ISBN 978-3-030-61246-7. S2CID 243448335.
- ^ "Annabelle Böttcher". Univie.ac.at. Retrieved 2013-09-25.
- ^ "Expertendatenbank Migration - Projekte - Netzwerk Migration in Europa". Network-migration.org. Retrieved 2013-09-25.
- ^ "Vielfältige islamische Traditionen in Deutschland - NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 20 December 2004. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ "Yemen: thousands displaced by conflict in just a few months - ICRC". Icrc.org. 22 December 2009. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ "لبنان اليوم" [Lebanon today]. tripoliscope.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-09. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
- ^ "الجمعية الطبية الإسلامية - الأغاثة - الجمعية الطبية الإسلامية - الأغاثة". Sima-lb.com. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ "وزير العدل يجتمع مع وفد اللجنة الدولية للصليب الأحمر اجتمع القاضي فايز الضاه..." Plus.google.com. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ "الاغاثية تطلق مؤتمرها الثاني وقطر الخيرية ترعاه وتتبرع بمليوني دولار للاجئين السوريين في لبنان - دنيا الوطن". Alwatanvoice.com. 21 February 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ "Annabelle Böttcher auf der Homepage der University of Southern Denmark". Archived from the original on 2019-06-03. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
- ^ "Annabelle Böttcher - DHBW Villingen-Schwenningen".
- ^ SCIANA The Health Leaders Network
- ^ "Official Official Sunni And Shi'i Islam In Syria".
- ^ Mit Turban und Handy: Scheich Naẓim al-Qubrusi und sein transnationales Sufinetzwerk. 31 August 2011. ASIN 3899138570.
- ^ Boettcher, Annabelle (7 November 2015). Syria's Sunni Islam under Hafiz al-Asad. Annabelle Boettcher. Retrieved 21 December 2017 – via Amazon.de.
- ^ Islampolitik in Syrien von 1961 bis 1996 eBook: Annabelle Boettcher: Amazon.de: Kindle-Shop. Annabelle Boettcher. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2017 – via Amazon.de.
- ^ Böttcher, Annabelle; Krawietz, Birgit, eds. (2021). Islam, Migration and Jinn. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-61247-4. ISBN 978-3-030-61246-7. S2CID 243448335.
External links
edit- Literature by and about Annabelle Boettcher in the German National Library catalogue
- Annabelle Boettcher at FU Berlin
- Annabelle Böttcher: Mit Turban und Gebetskette. An der Spitze transnationaler islamischer Netzwerke, 4 June 2011
- Michaela Lehmann: „Ziemlich angenervt“. Angestaubte Islamwissenschaft, Spiegel Online Unispiegel, 18 April 2003