Carl Heinrich Becker (1876-1933) was an education politician in the Weimar Republic and Professor of Oriental Studies at the then Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin (now Humboldt University).
Volume 1 of his “Islamstudien : Vom Werden und Wesen der islamischen Welt” (“Islamic Studies : The Becoming and Essence of the Islamic World”) from 1924 is now freely available in our open access collection MENAdoc.