Most of early Meccan surahs are found on the final pages of the Qur’an. They are likely to be missed by Western readers who are only superficially interested in the Muslims’ Holy Book; altogether impossible to properly perceive. Most of the earliest surahs are short and hardly understandable at all; enigmatic, often scary and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Navid Kermani’
A Latent Crisis
Posted in Book Review, tagged Angelika Neuwirth, Corpus Coranicum, early Meccan surahs, Navid Kermani, Nicolai Sinai, Qur'an, Tilman Nagel on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A Rhetorical Triumph
Posted in Academics, Book Review, Islam, tagged Ahmad Milad Karimi, Angelika Neuwirth, Christianity, congregation, Corpus Coranicum, Europe, Hartmut Bobzin, Holy Bible, Holy Qur'an, Judaism, Karl-Heinz Ohlig, Koran, Madinah, Makkha, Markus Gross, Muhammad, Navid Kermani, Tanakh, Tilman Nagel on February 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Angelika Neuwirth has presented a monumental analysis of the Holy Qur’an [1] which provides a number of convincing arguments that the scripture must not be regarded as fait accompli but had rather developed as a liturgical text during permanent and critical, well, polemical disputes with an audience/congregation more or less or highly knowledgeable of [...]
Still Waning
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Farid ud-Din Attar, Heinrich Heine, Hellmut Ritter, Job, Navid Kermani on December 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
These days I was thinking, among other things, of German Orientalist Navid Kermani’s ‘Terror of God’, his moving and stunning PhD thesis of 2005. Besides Biblical (and Qur’anic) Job, German poet Heinrich Heine and many other sufferers (not least members of his own family) Kermani writes much about the classical Persian poet Farid ud-Din Attar [...]
The Light Verse
Posted in Islam, Religion, tagged i‛ğāz, Light Verse, Navid Kermani, Pentecost, Qur'an on May 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Pentecost might be the right holiday for asking this simple question: Can Christians, or even agnostics, be touched by verses of the Holy Qur’an? Yes, they can (we are not in Obama’s campaign here). Some years ago, when I had just moved to Kuwait, which is a very conservative Islamic country, I got a gift [...]
Interreligious Incompetence
Posted in Christianity, Germany, Islam, Judaism, Religion, tagged Fuad Sezgin, Karl Lehmann, Kulturpreis, Navid Kermani, Peter Steinacker, Salomon Korn on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Celebrated German-Iranian scholar of Islamic Sciences, novelist, essayist and journalist Navid Kermani was denied Hesse’s highest cultural award, the Kulturpreis. As he tells us, he was second choice anyway after Professor Fuad Sezgin, Director of the Institute of Arabic-Islamic Sciences at Frankfurt University, who had been nominated first, had already declined; allegedly because of some [...]
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