1. Islamische Perspektiven zum interreligiösen Dialog
Alwani Ghazali / Muhammad Kamal:
Interreligious Dialogue Models
From the Life of the Prophet Muhammad
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London: Routledge 2024, 154 pp., index
ISBN-10: 1032474181 — ISBN-13: 978-1032474182
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How did the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) converse and engage with other religious believers? Did he start off with prejudice and mistrust? Or was he convivial and open-minded? This book analyses six models of the dealings in the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), specifically, but not restricted, to the siblings of Abrahamic religious believers. The six models of dialogue analysed in the book are dialogue with Ashamah, Najashi of Abyssinia, delegation of Najran Christians, different Jews of Yathrib, and emperors of Byzantine and Sassanid. The analysis applies Ibn Khaldun’s (d. 1406) historical approach which the author termed as Khaldunian Hermeneutics due to the similarity between his ideas to that of Johann Gustav Droysen (d. 1884), a German philosopher …
Wie unterhielt sich der Prophet Muhammad (PBUH = Friede sei mit ihm) mit anderen Gläubigen und wie ging er mit ihnen um? War er anfangs von Vorurteilen und Misstrauen geprägt? Oder war er kommunikativ und aufgeschlossen? Dieses Buch analysiert sechs Modelle des Umgangs zu Lebzeiten des Propheten Muhammad (PBUH), insbesondere, aber nicht nur, mit den Geschwistern der abrahamischen Religionen.
Die sechs Modelle des Dialogs, die in dem Buch analysiert werden, sind der Dialog mit Ashamah, Najashi von Abessinien, einer Delegation von Christen aus Nadschran, verschiedenen Juden aus Yathrib und den Kaisern der Byzantiner und Sassaniden. Die Analyse wendet Ibn Khalduns (gest. 1406) historischen Ansatz an, auf Grund der Ähnlichkeit seiner Ideen mit denen des deutschen Philosophen Johann Gustav Droysen (gest. 1884) …
The Authors / Die Autoren:
Alwani Ghazali is Senior Lecturer (Dozentin / Lehrbeauftragte) of the Department of Aqidah and Islamic Thought, Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya. She is a member of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) Fellowship. Her research interests are in the areas of religions, dialogue and peaceful coexistence, and she has published on topics such as interreligious dialogue and Prophetic Dialogue.
Muhammad Kamal is a Kurd from Iraq. He obtained his BA (Honours), MA and PhD degrees in Philosophy at the University of Karachi, Pakistan where he taught first as a lecturer and then as an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy. He went to Germany on DAAD scholarship for postdoctoral research and is currently a senior lecturer (Dozent / Lehrbeauftragter) at the University of Melbourne. He has published extensively in the area of Muslim philosophy.
2. Gegenwärtige Annäherungen zur Konzeptualisierung der Islamverständnisse
Frank Peter / Paula Schrode / Ricarda Stegman (eds.):
Conceptualizing Islam. Current Approaches
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London: Routledge 2025, 322pp., index
ISBN 9781032194721
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This volume brings together the perspectives of various disciplines to provides an overview of academic approaches to Islam, and offers its readers entry points to a more complex and refined understanding of Islam, but also to research processes within the study of Islam as well as religion in general.
Dieser Band führt die Perspektiven verschiedener Disziplinen zusammen, um einen Überblick über die akademischen Zugänge zum Islam zu geben, und bietet seinen Lesern Einstiegspunkte zu einem komplexeren und differenzierteren Verständnis des Islam, aber auch zu Forschungsprozessen innerhalb der Islamwissenschaft sowie der Religion im Allgemeinen.
Authors / Autoren
Frank Peter is a Research Fellow at FAU Centre for Islam and Law in Europe in Erlangen. His current research examines articulations of Islam in contemporary France with a focus on digital media. He previously published Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France: Secularism without Religion (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Paula Schrode is a Professor of the Study of Religion specializing in contemporary Islam at the University of Bayreuth. Her current research focuses on the transnational entanglements of Turkish Islam and, in particular, the involvement of Turkish religious NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ricarda Stegmann is a Lecturer in the Study of Religion at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and specializes in the fields of Islam in Europe and contemporary Sufism worldwide. Her particular research perspectives include discourse theory, colonial history, and a globally entangled history of religions.
Contents / Inhalt
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Frank Peter, Paula Schrode, and Ricarda Stegmann
Part I – Studying Islam and the ‚Western‘ Order of Things
Islam studieren und die „westliche“ Ordnung der Dinge
1. Historicising Colonial Islam: Religion and Law in German East Africa — Jörg Haustein
2. A Dynamic Triangle: Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Marshall G.S. Hodgson, and Toshihiko Izutsu’s Conceptualization of Islam — Armando Salvatore and Kieko Obuse
3. Who Invented Buddhism? Or: What Was Buddhism Before It Was Called Buddhism? — Christoph Kleine
4. Hinduism, Sanātana Dharma, and the Global Struggle About “True Religion” — Julian Strube
5. Framing Islam as Conceptual History — Reinhard Schulze
6. Decolonising ‘Islam’ — Sajjad Rizvi
7. Muslim Publics between Discourses of Religion and Islam — Abdulkader Tayob
Part II – Entangled Sites of Negotiation
Verwickelte Verhandlungssituationen
8. Conceptualising “Islam in Europe”: A Postcolonial Approach — Schirin Amir-Moazami
9. Beyond the Emic-Etic Distinction: Conceptualizing Islam in Our Inter-Connected World — Megan Brankley Abbas
10. Is “Progressive Islam” Still “Islamic”? Examining the Question through the Lens
of Shahab Ahmed’s Approach to Conceptualising Islam — Adis Duderija
11. Religion and/or Culture?: The Trouble with Conceptualizing Islam in Europe — Jeanette S. Jouili
Part III – Hegemonies and Peripheries
Vorherrschaften und Peripherien
12. Conceptualizing Muslim “Sectarianism“ — Adam R. Gaiser
13. Genealogies of Islam Noir: Racializing Islam — Robert Launay
14. Conceptualizing Islam in the Medieval Indian Ocean World — Sebastian Prange
Part IV – Conceptual Approaches in Research Practice
Konzeptuelle Annäherungen in der Forschungspraxis
15. God, Islam, and Anthropology — Amira Mittermaier
16. What Does Discourse Theory Contribute? Capturing Muslim Perspectives on Inheritance Law in Switzerland — Ricarda Stegmann
17. Global and Vernacular Patterns of Islamic Orthodoxy – A Discursive Perspective — Paula Schrode
18. Charisma, Embodiment and Continuous Revelation: Broadening the Concept of Islam — Markus Dressler
19. The Discursive Tradition Framework: New Directions for the Study of Islam after Talal Asad: “The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam” (1986) — Frank Peter
Index