Albrecht Fuess (1969 in La Tronche)[1] is a German scholar of Islam and the history of the medieval Eastern Mediterranean.

As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation he completed his doctorate in Cologne in 2000 with a thesis on the Syro-Palestinian coast in the Mamluk period (1250-1517).

After working as a freelancer in the foreign editorial office of the ZDF in Mainz, he became a research assistant to the chair of Islamic studies at the University of Erfurt in 2002.

Here he conducted a research project to compare the systems of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mamluks in the sixteenth century.

Fuess is also a co-leader for the following international collaborative projects: coordinator, together with colleagues from NISIS (Leiden) / IISMM (Paris) / CISC (Madrid, Barcelona).