Tag: review
(Deutsch) Rezension: Christen und Muslime: So nah, und doch so fremd
(Deutsch) Frische bewegten beim Schreiben des Buches die Fragen: Wie werden sich in Zukunft die Staaten Europas und Nordamerikas und die sie mitverantwortenden Christen zum Islam verhalten? Wo haben wir Platz zu machen – räumlich, damit Menschen eine Unterkunft finden, in der Arbeitswelt, damit Menschen in Arbeit und Brot kommen, dann auch jeder Einzelne in seinem täglichen Leben, in seinem Herzen und in seinem Kopf? Drängende Fragen, denen Hartmut Frische engagiert, umsichtig und mit offenem Herzen nachgeht.
(Deutsch) Rezension: Islam und Islamkritik
(Deutsch) Dieser Sammelband umfasst 17 Vorträge und Aufsätze zum Thema Islam in Europa. Sein Herausgeber, Ralph Ghadban, ist deutscher Islamwissenschaftler und promovierter Politologe mit libanesischen Wurzeln, der seit 1992 Migrationsforschung mit Schwerpunkt Islam in Europa betreibt (www.ghadban.de).
(Deutsch) Rezension: Understanding Islamic Theology
(Deutsch) Auf 466 Seiten bietet Patrick Sookhdeo eine umfassende Einführung in die islamische Theologie, sowohl die sunnitische als auch die schiitische. Auf den ersten 75 Seiten erklärt er, wie die Haupttexte des Islam benutzt wurden, um das Schariarecht zu entwickeln, ein nicht kodifiziertes System von detaillierten Gesetzen und Normen, das Leben und Alltag von Muslimen regiert.
(Deutsch) Rezension: Im Namen Allahs? Christenverfolgung im Islam
(Deutsch) Aachen/Freiburg (epd). In der Islamischen Welt findet laut der Aachener Islamwissenschaftlerin
Rita Breuer eine „Reislamisierung“ statt. Darunterleiden vor allem Christen. Sie brauchen ihrer
Ansicht nach von der westlichen Welt noch mehr Unterstützung als bisher.
The Christian Doctrine of God in the East from the Beginnings of Islam to the Present
This volume gathers papers presented at the symposium on the Christian Doctrine of God in the Mashriq held at the graduate school of the George August University of Göttingen under the title “Images of God, Gods and the World.” With it Martin Tamcke, expert in Eastern Church studies and History at the University, has broken fresh ground for “a theological history of the diverse traditions of the Christian Orient” (p. VIII).
My God is Now Allah and I Gladly Follow His Laws
Cornelia Filter studied German literature and history. She worked for various newspapers and magazines, such as Die Zeit, Frankfurter Rundschau, Brigitte, and above all Emma. Today, she is a public relations consultant for SOLWODI, an organization that is active on behalf of foreign-born girls in Germany, who have fallen victim to forced prostitution, arranged marriages and domestic violence.
The Koran. Arabic-German. Translation and commentary by Adel Theodor Khoury
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.
(Deutsch) Rezension: The Islamist: Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left
Mohamed M. Husain’s book is a protest against political Islam. It is based on his own experience as a British Muslim of Indian descent who grew up in London, rebelled against the traditional Islam of his parents and became an extremist. He eventually saw the error of his concepts and activities. The book is captivating and extremely timely. Why are young educated British Muslims becoming extremists?
Stefan Wild: God, Man and Prophet in the Koran
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.
Christoph Burgmer (Ed.): The Koran in Dispute. The Luxenberg Thesis: The Debate so Far
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.
The noble Qur’an and the translation of its meaning into the German language
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.
Günter Kettermann: Atlas on the History of Islam
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.
Ursula Neumann (Ed.): Islamic Theology: International Contributions to the Hamburg Debate
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.
Hans Zehetmair (Ed): Islam in Tension between Conflict and Dialogue
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.
Hamid Molla Djafari: God Has the most Beautiful Names
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.
Hans-Georg Eber (Ed.): Articles on Islamic Law
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.
Andreas Feldtkeller: Die ‘Mutter der Kirchen’ im ‘Haus des Islam’
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.
H. H. Elsäßer; I. Goldmann: Wortschatz Politik – Wirtschaft – Geographie
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.
Murad Hofmann: Der Islam im 3. Jahrtausend. Eine Religion im Aufbruch
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.
Hans Zirker: Der Koran. Zugänge und Lesarten
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.
