Johann Büssow is section editor for the history of the Arab world from 1500 to the present of the Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (Brill, Leiden) and co-editor of the book series 'Studien zur Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte Westasiens und Nordafrikas' (LIT Verlag, Berlin u.a.).[1]
Johann Büssow's research focuses on the social and political history of the modern Middle East and intellectual history in the modern Islamic world since the eighteenth century.
Together with a team of historians around Yuval Ben-Bassat (Haifa) and Khaled Safi (Gaza) he is currently working on Gaza and its region during the late Ottoman period. With the historian Stefan Rohdewald (Gießen) he co-directs a research project on Palestine as a region of migration during the transition from late Ottoman to British Mandatory rule, in the framework of the research cluster "Transottomanica". With Astrid Meier (Beirut), he is preparing a book-length study with the tentative title "Bedouin Syria: The Arid Lands of the Middle East, 1516–2011". Together with several colleagues from Tübingen, he is conducting an interdisciplinary research project on the history of oasis towns in Oman.[2]
— (2012). Geschichtsort Jaffator: Osmanische Kommunalverwaltung und bürgerschaftliches Engagement in Jerusalem, 1867-1917. Berlin: Aphorisma, ISBN978-3-86575-540-7.
— with Khaled Safi (2013). Damascus Affairs: Egyptian Rule in Syria through the Eyes of an Anonymous Damascene Chronicler, 1831-1840. Würzburg: Ergon, ISBN978-3-89913-906-8.