Academic Career
He studied in Frankfurt am Main, obtained his Ph.D. there in 1971 and habilitated in Hamburg, Germany. Between 1973 and 2009, until his retirement, he was Professor for International Relations at Göttingen University. Parallel to this appointment he was from 1982 to 2000 at Harvard University in a variety of affiliations, the latest from 1998 to 2000 as The Bosch Fellow of Harvard. Currently, he is an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. Tibi had eighteen visiting professorships in all continents including fellowships in Princeton University, UC Berkeley, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and most recently (2010) at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Washington D.C. Tibi was visiting senior fellow at Yale University. Along his retirement in 2009, he published his major life-time book "Islam's Predicament with Cultural Modernity".
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