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Rezension: The Islamist: Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left
Dieses Buch ist spannend: Es ist ein Protest gegen den politischen Islam und den Islamismus. Ed (Abkürzung für Mohamed) Husain, ein junger Brite indischer Abstammung, erzählt detailliert, engagiert und ehrlich, warum er den traditionellen, vom Sufismus geprägten Islam seiner Eltern verließ und zum Aktivisten in islamistischen Organisationen in Großbritannien wurde. Nach fünf Jahren erkennt er den Irrtum seiner Überzeugungen und Aktivitäten. Das Buch ist fesselnd und kommt zur rechten Zeit. Es antwortet auf die Frage: Warum werden junge britische Muslime Extremisten?
Zusammenfassung des Bundesverfassungsschutzberichtes 2008
Nach dem Verfassungsschutzbericht 2008 ist Deutschland weiter „Teil eines weltweiten Gefahrenraums“ und befindet sich im „unmittelbaren Zielspektrum islamistisch-terroristischer Gruppierungen“.
Pressemitteilung zum Internationalen Tag zur Beseitigung der Rassendiskriminierung am 21. März 2009
B O N N (26. März 2009) – Vor einer pauschalen Verurteilung islamkritischer Äußerungen als Ausdruck des Rassismus warnte die Islamwissenschaftlerin Prof. Dr. Christine Schirrmacher vom „Institut für Islamfragen der Deutschen Evangelischen Allianz“ anlässlich des Internationalen Tages zur Beseitigung der Rassendiskriminierung.
(English) Stefan Wild: God, Man and Prophet in the Koran
(English) Wild’s essay provides a clearlywritten and useful summary of the Koranic view of God and human beings. His discussion of Islamic and non-Islamic concepts of revelation brings out clearly the immense gulf which continues to separate the two positions.
(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) “Islamic Charter” of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD) – A Comment
(English) On February 3, 2002, the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (German: Zentralrat der Muslime in Deutschland – ZMD) passed an “Islamic Charter”, which is supposed to be a Muslim “manifesto regarding the German state and society”.
(English) The noble Qur’an and the translation of its meaning into the German language
(English) Always remembering that according to the tenets of Islam the text of the Koran can never legitimately be translated, only its “meaning” (p. xi), this is certainly the most significant Islamic Arabic-German version to date, even if the Introduction (p. xii) implies at the first glance it is the first ever by completely passing over the Ahmadiyya translation which has been available for decades.
(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) “Da’wah” today: The Islamic call to Faith and Islamic PR Activities
(English) The concept of Da’wah derives its meaning from the Arabic verb da’a = to call, to invite. Da’wah is therefore an imperative duty for all Muslims, namely to invite others to accept the truth of Islam.
(English) Women in Islam: the Provisions of Islamic marriage law
(English) The public debate over women’s role in Islam tends in the West to centre round the issue of the head-scarf, seen as symbolizing women’s inferiority, yet not all practising Muslim women wear the scarf and not all of them are of the opinion that this is undispensable. In fact it is Islamic marriage law which cements women’s inferior legal status as divinely ordained.
(English) Islamic Feminism as an Effort towards Renewal and Modernization
(English) The events of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent reactions have moved the Islamic faith – and especially Islamic extremism into the public limelight and made it an on-going topic of discussion. While the opinions of politically active Muslims (Islamists) or extremists have increasingly become media topics, liberal Muslims are presented in much less detail. Islamic feminism may be considered one form of liberal Islam. It is characterized by the following aspects:
(English) Hans Zehetmair (Ed): Islam in Tension between Conflict and Dialogue
(English) The Berlin Wall no longer exists, and Hans Zehetmair hopes that there will not be any insurmountable hindrance between Islam and Europe in the future. The chairman of the “Hanns Seidel Foundation” has edited a collection of essays, which aims at offering background information as a necessary tool for those who want to build bridges between the Orient and the Occident.
(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) Andreas Feldtkeller: Die ‘Mutter der Kirchen’ im ‘Haus des Islam’
(English) This comprehensive post-doctoral thesis by religion and missiological theologian A. Feldtkeller, who now chairs at Humboldt University of Berlin, examines the coexistence of Christians and Muslims in Jerusalem and surrounding area from the time of the Arabic-Islamic conquest to the present.
(English) H. H. Elsäßer; I. Goldmann: Wortschatz Politik – Wirtschaft – Geographie
(English) In relation with globalisation the political vocabulary of the Arabic language has developed and changed. This dictionary is both recommendable and comprehensive and contains political as well as geographical terms, names of key figures of the international and Arab world and mentions news agencies and organisations.
(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.
