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?

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(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.

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(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.

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(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.

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(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.

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(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.

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(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.

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