is Professor at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. He is both a passionate advocate of the European Islam and a fierce supporter of breaking the taboo of the dangers of Islamism and orthodox Islam. For his concepts ‘Leitkultur’ and ‘Euroislam’ he became widely known. Some of his many works in German are: Europa ohne Identität? (1998), Islamische Zuwanderung. Die gescheiterte Integration (2002) and Der neue Totalitarismus. Heiliger Krieg und westliche Sicherheit (2004). In English he published The Challenge of Fundamentalism. Political Islam and the New World Disorder (1998, revised 2002) and, in 2001, Islam between Culture and Politics. Tibi’s latest book is Political Islam, World Politics and Europe (2008). In Nexus 50 he writes on Islamic humanism.
His own website: Bassam Tibi.