Reichmuth / Rüsen / Sarhan Humanism and Muslim Culture

Historical Heritage and Contemporary Challenges
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-86234-937-1
Verlag: V&R unipress
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E-Book, Englisch, Band Volume 002, Part, 188 Seiten

Reihe: Reflections on (In)Humanity

The papers of this volume move from the abstract scheme of an intercultural humanism of the future to concrete cultural expressions of humanism within the Muslim culture of different times up to the present. They concentrate on three issues. The first is related to contemporary attempts to develop a humanist and historical hermeneutics of the Qur'an and of Islamic history. The second discusses the humanist heritage and the humanitarian trends of Muslim religious and literary culture. The third highlights the discussion on Humanism and Islam as a topic within European identity politics, covering the role of this discussion for the history of Islamic Studies in Europe and America, and the contemporary polemics around Islam in the Netherlands. Taken together, the contributions of the volume attempt to provide the groundwork for an assessment of the roots and prospects of an intercultural humanism with respect to the Muslim world.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichmuth lehrt am Seminar für Orientalistik und Islamwissenschaften der Universität Bochum.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reichmuth, Stefan

Rüsen, Jörn

Sarhan, Aladdin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Biesterfeldt, Hans-Hinrich

Kreutz, Michael

Wild, Stefan

Kemper, Michael

Schäbler, Birgit

Würsch, Renate

Antohi, Sorin

Rüsen, Jörn

Huang, Chun-chieh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;3
2;Copyright;4
3;Table of Contents;7
4;Body;9
5;Stefan Reichmuth//Aladdin Sarhan: 1. Foreword;9
6;Stefan Reichmuth//Aladdin Sarhan: 2. Humanism and Muslim Culture: Historical Heritage and Contemporary Challenges;11
6.1;1. Universal concept of humanity;13
6.2;2. Centrality of the human being: Anthropocentrism;14
6.3;3. Human dignity as a basic value of cultural orientation;15
6.4;4. Equality of all human beings in respect to their essential dignity;15
6.5;5. Fundamental reference to responsibility and otherness in human existence;16
6.6;6. Individuality and social responsibility;16
6.7;7. Humanity and Transcendence;17
7;The present book;18
8;Part I: A humanist hermeneutics of Islam?;20
9;Part II: Debates on humanist elements in Islamic culture;21
10;Part III: Humanism and Islam in European identity politics: German and Dutch cases;22
11;Bibliography;24
12;Part I: A humanist hermeneutics of Islam?;25
13;: 3. The Concept of Man in the Qur'an. Non-Muslim Perspectives;27
13.1;Introduction;27
13.2;Part I: The social background of the Qur'anic text;30
13.3;Part II: Humanistic Hermeneutics of the Qur'an;35
13.4;Bibliography;38
14;: 4. Rethinking the Qur'an: Towards a Humanistic Hermeneutics;39
14.1;1. The Qur'an as `Discourse';41
14.2;2. The Qur’an versus the Mu..af: the spoken and the silent;43
14.3;3. The `Text' Reconstructed and Manipulated;44
14.4;4. Polyphonic not Monophonic; Who Speaks and Who Listens?;47
14.5;5. Dialogue;50
14.6;6. Negotiation;53
14.7;7. From Negotiation to Disputation;55
14.8;Conclusion;59
14.9;Bibliography;60
15;: 5. The Vicissitudes of Ethics in Islamic Thought;61
15.1;The two sources of ethics;63
15.2;1) From the tensions between reason and belief to an ultraliberal pragmatism versus Islamic fundamentalism;65
15.3;2) From the ethics of to the expansion of Islamic fundamentalism: which specific lessons?;73
15.4;3) Where do the Values Go? Commanding the Right and Prohibiting the Wrong (al-amr bi-l-ma‘ruf wa-l-nahy ‘ani-l-munkar);78
15.5;Instead of a Conclusion: Postulates and Systems of Truth;82
15.6;Bibliography;84
16;Part II: Debates on humanist elements in Islamic culture;87
17;Renate Würsch: 6. Humanism and Mysticism – Inspirations from Islam;89
17.1;Bibliography;99
18;Hinrich Biesterfeldt: 7. The Perfect Man – a Humanist?;101
18.1;1. The Perfect Man in Ibn al-.Arabi’s thought and al-Jili’s system;102
18.2;2. Various personifications of the Perfect Man in Islamic religious thought;105
18.3;3. The Perfect Man – a Humanist?;108
18.4;Bibliography;112
19;Stefan Reichmuth: 8. Humanism in Islam between Mysticism and Literature;115
19.1;Bibliography;125
20;Michael Kreutz: 9. Understanding the Other: on Reason and Individualism;127
20.1;Heritage in an Age of Criticism;129
20.2;From to ;132
20.3;A Plea for Human Reason;136
20.4;From Reason to Faith;139
20.5;Bibliography;142
21;Part III: Humanism and Islam in European identity politics: German and Dutch cases;145
22;Birgit Schäbler: 10. Humanism, Orientalism, Modernity: A Critique;147
22.1;From Humanism to Neo-Humanism;148
22.2;Writing Islam out of Modernity;150
22.3;Global Modernity;156
22.4;Bibliography;159
23;Michael Kemper: 11. The Cracks in Civilizations: The Dutch Public Discourse on Humanism and Islam;163
23.1;, Fitna (2008);165
23.2;, Islam for Pigs (2008);170
23.3;Kader Abdolah, The Koran./The Messenger (2008);173
23.4;Conclusion;176
23.5;Bibliography;177
24;About the Contributors;179

Über Autor(innen)

Huang, Chun-chieh
Prof Dr Chun-chieh Huang is National Chair Professor and Dean of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, and Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Reichmuth, Stefan
Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichmuth lehrt am Seminar für Orientalistik und Islamwissenschaften der Universität Bochum.

Rüsen, Jörn
Prof Dr Jörn Rüsen ist Senior Fellow am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut der Universität Essen und Professor emeritus an der Universität Witten/Herdecke.

Rüsen, Jörn
Prof Dr Jörn Rüsen ist Senior Fellow am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut der Universität Essen und Professor emeritus an der Universität Witten/Herdecke.

Sarhan, Aladdin
Aladdin Sarhan ist Lehrbeauftragter an der Fakultät für Kulturreflexion, Universität Witten/Herdecke. Er promoviert am Religionswissenschaftlichen Seminar / Lehrstuhl für Islamwissenschaft der Universität Erfurt.