(ed.)Thomas Scheffler (Wurzburg: Ergon Verlag/Beirut: Orient-Institut, 2001 [= Beiruter Texte und Studien; vol. 78]).

The volume presents thirty essays on Middle Eastern history, literature, and politics by Fritz Steppat, a former director of the German Orient Institute in Beirut (1963-68) and chair professor of Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin (1969-88). Influenced by the theologian Paul Tillich and the Orientalist Carl Heinrich Becker, Steppat's work was devoted to understanding Islam as a "partner" in an overarching world community and not as an "exotic object." Scheffler, who was a Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Institute in 2001-02, contributed an introduction to the volume entitled "Fritz Steppat - erkbiographische Einf¸hrung," ["Fritz Steppat - Work and Biography: An Introduction"].

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