Islam / Islamic Matters

 

 


Eigene Artikel / Articles of mine

o        Ist der Islam ein Monotheismus?

o        Is Islam a Monotheism (tawhîd)?

o        Warum kein islamischer Religionsunterricht an öffentlichen und privaten Schulen?

o        Islamisches Recht (šarī‘a) – mit dem Grundgesetz vereinbar? (Veröffentlicht in Theologisches – Katholische Monatsschrift Jahrgang 41, Nr. 03/04 März/April 2011, 249-262)

o        yā muḥammad – kein „o Mohammed“, und wer ist ‛alī? (Veröffentlicht in MARKUS GROß, KARL-HEINZ OHLIG (Hg.), Schlaglichter: Die beiden ersten islamischen Jahrhunderte, Berlin (Verlag Hans Schiler) 2008, pp. 278-292)

 

Interessante Verbindungen / Interesting Links

o        Answering Islam (eine riesige Sammlung an Islam-Kritik / a vast collection of Islam critique)

o        Muhammadanism (eine Seite mit der Wiedergabe wichtiger älterer gelehrter Werke zur Islam-Kritik / another site representing important elderly scholarly works contributing to Islam critique)

o        Islam Unveiled (eine ebenfalls reichhaltige Seite, besonders mit Material über für den Islam eher peinliche Aspekte / again a rich site, especially with material concerning matters embarrassing for Islam)

o        The Debate (Seite der Hyde Park Christian Fellowship, wissenschafts- und dialogorientiert / site of the Hyde Park Christian Fellowship, scholarship and dialogue oriented)

o        Verbindung zu arabischen und islamischen Seiten unterschiedlicher Qualität / Links to Arabic & Islamic Pages of Various Quality

o        "Freethought Mecca" – Articles, satires, and rebuttals of the "Great Religions" with varying levels of seriousness

o        "Verein contra Fundamentalismus (VcF)" – Eine schweizerische Initiative für die Menschenrechte und gegen islamistische Anmaßungen mit einer Anzahl guter Beiträge / A Swiss initiative in favour of Human Rights and against Islamists' presumptions with a number of good articles

o        Documents sur les origines de l'islam – ein Füllhorn an traditionellen Texten zur Entstehung des Islams / a cornucopia with traditional texts concerning the origin of Islam

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.

o „yā muḥammad“ – no „o Mohammed“!

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:

o Textkritik am Koran / Textual Criticism applied to the Koran

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"


Bücher / Books