Bassam Tibi

Bassam Tibi is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations. Between 1973 and 2009 he taught at the University of Gottingen, and he was A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University until 2010. Between 1982 and 2000 Professor Tibi was, in parallel to his appointment at Gottingen, at show more Harvard University in a variety of affiliations, the latest of which was the Bosch Fellow of Harvard. His work has been translated into 16 languages, and he has published a great number of books including Islamism and Islam (2012), Islam's Predicament with Modernity (Routledge 2009) and Islam, World Politics and Europe (Routledge 2008). In 1995 the president of Germany, Roman Herzog, presented him with the Bundesverdienstkreuz, Germany's highest federal decoration, for his "bridging between Islam and the West." show less