Annabelle Boettcher Explained
Annabelle Boettcher is a German professor, expert on Syria and advisor for the humanitarian aid industry.
Biography
Annabelle 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
- 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. (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]
External links
Notes and References
- https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0173I8YJ0/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2 Syria's Sunni Islam under Hafiz al-Asad
- Book: Islam, Migration and Jinn. 10.1007/978-3-030-61247-4. 2021. 978-3-030-61246-7. 243448335 . Böttcher. Annabelle. Birgit. Krawietz.
- Web site: Annabelle Böttcher . Univie.ac.at . 2013-09-25.
- Web site: Expertendatenbank Migration - Projekte - Netzwerk Migration in Europa . Network-migration.org . 2013-09-25.
- News: Vielfältige islamische Traditionen in Deutschland - NZZ. 20 December 2004. Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 21 December 2017.
- Web site: Yemen: thousands displaced by conflict in just a few months - ICRC. 22 December 2009. Icrc.org. 21 December 2017.
- Web site: لبنان اليوم . Lebanon today . tripoliscope.com . 2017-05-17 . 2020-04-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200409123453/http://tripoliscope.com/news/1-%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85 . dead .
- Web site: الجمعية الطبية الإسلامية - الأغاثة - الجمعية الطبية الإسلامية - الأغاثة. Sima-lb.com. 21 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171222053301/http://www.sima-lb.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=113:2013-07-08-10-41-35&catid=90&Itemid=1057. 22 December 2017. dead.
- Web site: وزير العدل يجتمع مع وفد اللجنة الدولية للصليب الأحمر اجتمع القاضي فايز الضاه.... Plus.google.com. 21 December 2017.
- Web site: الاغاثية تطلق مؤتمرها الثاني وقطر الخيرية ترعاه وتتبرع بمليوني دولار للاجئين السوريين في لبنان - دنيا الوطن. Alwatanvoice.com. 21 February 2014 . 21 December 2017.
- Web site: Annabelle Böttcher auf der Homepage der University of Southern Denmark . 2019-06-03 . 2019-06-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190603150155/https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/persons/bottcher . dead .
- Web site: Annabelle Böttcher - DHBW Villingen-Schwenningen.
- https://www.sciananetwork.org/calendar/upcoming-events/session-597.html SCIANA The Health Leaders Network
- Web site: Official Official Sunni And Shi‘i Islam In Syria.
- Book: Mit Turban und Handy: Scheich Naẓim al-Qubrusi und sein transnationales Sufinetzwerk. 31 August 2011. .
- Book: Boettcher, Annabelle. Syria's Sunni Islam under Hafiz al-Asad. 7 November 2015. Annabelle Boettcher. 21 December 2017. Amazon.de.
- Book: Islampolitik in Syrien von 1961 bis 1996 eBook: Annabelle Boettcher: Amazon.de: Kindle-Shop. Amazon.de. 2 October 2015 . Annabelle Boettcher . 21 December 2017.
- Book: Islam, Migration and Jinn. 10.1007/978-3-030-61247-4. 2021. 978-3-030-61246-7. 243448335 . Böttcher. Annabelle. Birgit. Krawietz.