Autor: Prof. Dr. Christine Schirrmacher
Schiiten und Sunniten – Unterschiede islamischer „Konfessionen“
Nachdem Muhammad am 8.6.632 n. Chr. wohl recht überraschend gestorben war, entstanden unter der ersten muslimischen Gemeinde unterschiedliche Auffassungen über die Frage seiner Nachfolge. Schwer zu beantworten war sie, weil Muhammad selbst offenbar keinen Nachfolger bestimmt hatte und selbst geistlicher und weltlicher Herrscher, Gesetzgeber und Heerführer, der letzte Prophet der Geschichte und Empfänger der Offenbarung des Korans gewesen war.
Christen und Muslime gestern und heute – Voraussetzungen für ein konstruktives Zusammenleben
Vortrag in der Arbeitsgruppe „Kultur“ im Rahmen des Journalistenseminars „Bildkorrekturen“; 14.–16.12. 2006, Feldafing/München.
(English) Honour killings and Emancipation – Gender roles in Immigrant Culture against the backdrop of a Middle East understanding of “Honour” and “Shame”
(English) As part of the symposium „Honour Killings and Emancipation“ from the Post-Graduate Seminar „Perception of Gender Differences within Religious Symbol-Systems“, Julius-Maximillian-University, Wuerzburg, 19.01.2006.
Adam
Im Koran ist Adam der, den Gott „vor den Menschen in aller Welt“ auserwählt hat (3,33) und ebenso wie im Alten Testament der Stammvater aller Menschen (4,1). Die Überlieferung bringt die Erschaffung Adams in engen Zusammenhang mit dem Hauptheiligtum des Islam, der Ka’ba in Mekka, denn sie berichtet, daß Gott Adam aus Lehm erschuf, den er für seinen Kopf von der Erde der Ka’ba nahm und für seine Brust und seinen Rücken von Jerusalem.
(English) The Koran. Arabic-German. Translation and commentary by Adel Theodor Khoury
(English) The text of this further German-Arabic version of the Koran is based on the 1987 translation of the well-known Professor emeritus of Religious Science at the Roman Catholic theological faculty of the University of Münster (Westphalia), T. A. Khoury, published in association with leading Muslim theologians including the General Secretary of the Muslim World Congress.
(English) Christoph Burgmer (Ed.): The Koran in Dispute. The Luxenberg Thesis: The Debate so Far
(English) The year 2000 saw the pseudonymous publication of “The Reading of the Koran” setting out Christoph Luxenberg’s thesis that certain passages of the Koran should be understood not according to the Arabic sense of the words but to an underlying Syriac-Aramaic sense, thereby giving the Koran a whole new meaning.
(English) Günter Kettermann: Atlas on the History of Islam
(English) This is not only an atlas with numerous maps that illustrate the history of Islam from its origins through the modern age. At the same time it uses numerous articles, charts and pictures to convey much more information about Islam in the Near and Middle East, in Europe and North Africa than the title would allow one to assume.
(English) Ursula Neumann (Ed.): Islamic Theology: International Contributions to the Hamburg Debate
(English) This book presents a debate from March 2001 that dealt with the issue of establishing a professorship for Islamic Theology at the University of Hamburg. By way of this professorship Muslim teachers would receive academic training in Islam; thus, it was thought, leaders of mosques (Imams), teachers at Koran schools and religion teachers would be trained in Germany.
(English) Hamid Molla Djafari: God Has the most Beautiful Names
(English) In the Koran we read: “The most beautiful names belong to Allah. So call on him by them” (surah 7.180). “The most beautiful names” are understood by Muslim theologians as names and attributes of God which are used during prayer, Sufi-meditation or while saying the rosary. God’s names are important as God has not revealed himself in Islam, as Muslim theologians hold, but has only sent down his Holy Book, the Koran.
(English) Seref ve Onur: Honour and Dignity
(English) Turkish-Muslim and German conceptions on the subject of “honour” and “dignity” were the focus of this symposium of the Körber-Stiftung in the year 1999. As a rule violations of honour are perceived by Muslim-Turks to be especially fierce attacks. Non-Muslims most often lack the background knowledge necessary for understanding this conflict.
(English) Bärbel Reuter: Islam as it is Lived out in Cairo Today by Female Islamists
(English) Bärbel Reuter’s dissertation is a worthwhile compilation of 7 years of studying Islam as it is lived out in Egypt today. In this distinctive study, Reuter presents the opinions and viewpoints of younger women in Cairo who „feel deeply tied to the Islamic movement” (p. 246). This particular spectrum (or stream) of Islam called Islamism affects more than just individual behavior of a believer and how he/she personally applies their religious beliefs, it encompasses every aspect of the participant’s life and is considered an effective force for changing society which in turn brings changes to the political realm.
(English) Hans-Georg Eber (Ed.): Articles on Islamic Law
(English) The contributions in this volume are based on speeches held in 1999 at the annual convention of the Incorporated Society for Arabic and Islamic Law, established in 1998. The society has taken on the task of elaborating fundamental issues, in theory and in practise, of the Islamic law of the Middle East and of presenting the legal sources, often difficult to find, as principles of law.
(English) Murad Hofmann: Der Islam im 3. Jahrtausend. Eine Religion im Aufbruch
(English) This book by Murad Hofmann on “Islam in the Third Millennium – a Religion on the Rise” has been published in German only. Murad Wilfried Hofmann, a doctor of law and for many years a German ambassador, has his claim to fame as a cele29 brity. He converted to Islam over 20 years ago, made various pilgrimages to Mecca and has written some very well known promotional materials for Islam.
(English) Hans Zirker: Der Koran. Zugänge und Lesarten
(English) Hans Zirker is professor for Catholic Fundamental Theology at the University of Essen and has herewith published a further book on „Islam“. In five chapters, he proves his ability to give an introduction into basic facts about Qur’anic studies for nonexperts and to provide insiders with fascinating insights into and new perspectives of this theme.
(English) Honor Killings and Ideas of Honor in Societies of Islamic Character
(English) Honor killings take place today not only in the eastern part of Turkey. In Germany, too, and in the other countries of Europe, women die “for reasons of honor”. Till now, German criminal investigative departments do not compile any separate statistics, but unofficial statistics quote at least 49 honor killings or attempts at such in Germany between 1996 and 2005. The United Nations estimate that ca. 5000 honor killings (along with a high number of unreported cases) have been committed world-wide.
(English) Thomas Eich: Bio-ethics in Islam
(English) Anyone labouring under the illusion that the bio-ethical debate on questions such as artificial insemination, cloning, surrogate motherhood, abortion after prenatal screening or sex preference for implanted foetuses is limited to the West should be set right by this slim volume.
(English) Jane Dammen McAuliffe (Ed.): The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an
(English) After approximately four decades the “battleship” of modern Islam studies, the Encyclopaedia of Islam (“EI”), was completed and published by the renowned publisher E.J. Brill in eleven large volumes and on CD-ROM. At the same time this publisher issued another encyclopedia: the Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an (“EQ”). One might wonder about the publication of an encyclopedia in addition to the EI. There seem to be two main reasons for this.
(English) Gritt Klinkhammer: Modern Forms of Islamic Life
(English) In her doctoral thesis in sociology, Gritt Klinkhammer examines the manner in which young Muslim-Turkish women of the second and third generation live out their Islamic religious affiliation in Germany. Their parents generally belong to the religiously conservative first “guest worker” generation, from whose life and religious practises the young, educated women clearly want to make a break. The parents encouraged their daughters’ Koran school lessons, for example, or observance of Islamic social rules; however, they were often able to give their “enlightened” daughters little justification and explanation for celebrations, manners and religious obligations – justification demanded by the children in the secular environment. Although these parents have now lived in Germany for up to 35 years, they do not see themselves as “Germans”, nor do their children.
(English) Joseph Croitoru: The Martyr as Weapon
(English) The topic of the German-born Israeli Joseph Croitoru is the historical development of suicide attacks and the ideological background of the movements that train them. His study centres on Muslim terrorists and countries such as Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Algeria, Chechenya and Kurdistan – the majority of attacks are after all perpetrated by Muslims – but also looks at the Third Reich and Asia (Korea, Japan and Kashmir).
(English) Ralph Ghadban: Tariq Ramadan and the Islamisation of Europe
Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.
