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Tag Archives: Navid Kermani
A Latent Crisis
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review
Tagged Angelika Neuwirth, Corpus Coranicum, early Meccan surahs, Navid Kermani, Nicolai Sinai, Qur'an, Tilman Nagel
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A Rhetorical Triumph
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, … Continue reading
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
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Still Waning
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Farid ud-Din Attar, Heinrich Heine, Hellmut Ritter, Job, Navid Kermani
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The Light Verse
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 … Continue reading
Interreligious Incompetence
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Germany, Islam, Judaism, Religion
Tagged Fuad Sezgin, Karl Lehmann, Kulturpreis, Navid Kermani, Peter Steinacker, Salomon Korn
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