Islam / Islamic Matters
Eigene Artikel / Articles of mine
Interessante
Verbindungen / Interesting Links
Frühislam-Forschung
/ Research on Early Islam
Wenn in frühen Inschriften und auf frühen Münzen muḥammad zu
lesen ist, meint das in aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nicht einen Propheten
im abgelegenen Mekka/ When in early inscriptions or on early
coins muḥammad
is to be read, it most probably doesn't mean any prophet in
peripherical Mecca.
Textkritische
Koranstudien / Qur'an Criticism
Die üblichen Methoden der historisch-kritischen Textanalyse
sind
auf den Koran bei weitem noch nicht in dem Maße angewandt worden,
wie das zu erwarten wäre. Hier einiges zum Stand der Wissenschaft.
/ The usual methods of historical-critical textual analysis are
by
far not yet applied to the Koran as it might be expected. Here somewhat
with regard to the state of the art:
Terrorismus /
terrorism
One might be interested in the article by Prof. Hans G. Kippenberg,
University of Erfurt, Germany, "'CONSIDER THAT IT IS A RAID ON THE
PATH OF GOD': THE SPIRITUAL MANUAL OF THE ATTACKERS OF 9/11" in Numen, 2005, vol. 52, no. 1, pp.
29-58(30), published by Brill
Academic Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. It can be donwloaded as
pdf-file from this
site.
Abstract:
The document found with three of the four cells responsible for the
crimes of 9/11 is unique in providing specific information about how
the Muslim suicide terrorists conceived of their action. The document
shows that they found justification for violence by emulating the
moment in early Islamic history when Muhammad cancelled contracts with
non-Muslims and organized raids (ghazwa) against the Meccans in order
to establish Islam as a political order. No statement in the Manual
explicitly identifies the United States as the financial, military, and
political center of today's paganism; rather, such identification is
tacitly assumed, as was shown by the action itself. Instead, the Manual
prescribes recitations, prayers and rituals by which each member of the
four cells should prepare for the ghazwa, purify his intention and
anticipate in his mind the successive stages of the struggle to come.
Not the objective aim but the subjective intention is at the center of
the Manual. The article places this type of justification of violence
in the history of Islamic activism since the 1980s.
More about Prof. Kippengberg's related speech under the title "Terror
as Worship: The Spiritual Manual of the Perpetrators of September 11"
to the "International Conference on Religious Militancy and Security in
South Asia", jointly organized by BIISS, the German and the French
Embassies in Dhaka, Bangla Desh, 10-13 October 2004 and some hostile
reactions to it are to be found here.
Islamische
"Häretiker" / Islamic "Heretics"
- Die Drusen / The Druze (arabisch/Arabic:
درزي, derzī oder/or durzī, plural دروز, durūz)
sind eine im 11. Jahrhundert aus dem schiitischen Islam der Ismailiten
hervorgegangene Religionsgemeinschaft / are a religious community which
originated as an offshoot of the Ismaili sect of Islam. Sie sind
einzigartig in ihrer Verschmelzung von gnostischem, neuplatonischem und
anderem Gedankengut / They are unique in their incorporation of
Gnostic, neo-Platonic and other philosophies. Die Drusen verstehen sich
selbst als / The Druze consider themselves as ahl al-tawhîd ("Volk des
Monotheismus" / "People of Monotheism"). Nicht der Koran, sondern eine eine
Sammlung von "Weisheitsbriefen"
/ Not the Koran, but a collection of "Epistles of Wisdom"
(arabisch/Arabic: رسائل ألحكمة risâ'il
al-hikmah) ist ihre Heilige Schrift / is their Holy Book;
die Drusen betrachten es als streng geheim / the Druze consider
it as top secret, es ist jedoch in der Wissenschaft seit dem 19.
Jahrhundert bekannt / it is however known in scholarship since the 19th
century.
Bücher /
Books
