Angelika Neuwirth

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Angelika Neuwirth (born Kleinknecht ; born November 4, 1943 in Nienburg / Weser ) is a German humanities and cultural scientist. She is a university professor and holds the chair for Arabic studies at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

Angelika Neuwirth studied Persian literature at the University of Tehran in 1963 , then from 1964 to 1967 Oriental Studies ( Semitic and Arabic) and Classical Philology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . From 1967 to 1970 she studied Arabic and Islamic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and graduated with a Magister Artium. In 1972, she was at the University of Goettingen to the Dr. phil. PhD. From 1972 to 1975 Neuwirth received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation . In 1977 she completed her habilitation in Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Munich . After her habilitation, Neuwirth taught Arabic philosophy at the University of Jordan in Amman for six years . From 1981 to 1983 she headed a section at the Royal Academy for Islamic Civilization there . After a few professorships and visiting professorships, she took over the Chair of Arabic Studies at the Free University of Berlin in 1991. From 1994 to 1999 she was director of the Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society in Beirut and Istanbul. In 1999 she returned to her chair in Berlin. Angelika Neuwirth is associated co-director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin .

Neuwirth is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Jewish Cultural History at the University of Salzburg .

Research priorities

On the one hand, Neuwirth conducts research in the field of Classical Arabic literature, especially the Koran and its late antique context. On the other hand, she is active in research on modern Levant literature and literature on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . Neuwirth leads research projects at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , in the Collaborative Research Center Aesthetic Experience at the Free University of Berlin, at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

Angelika Neuwirth points out that the science of Judaism played an important role in Islamic research in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The historical-critical Koran research of German-speaking Jews of the 19th century begins with Abraham Geiger's dissertation “What did Mohammed take in from Judaism?” (1833) and Gustav Weil's “Historical-critical introduction to the Koran” (1844). This research, a later offshoot of the Jewish Enlightenment , was continued with Ignaz Goldziher's Muhammadan Studies and his lectures on Islam at the beginning of the 20th century, until the College for the Science of Judaism was closed in 1942 and this tradition was violently broken off the National Socialist regime.

Angelika Neuwirth has been the head of the Corpus Coranicum research project since 2007 , which aims to create a historical-critical documentation of the Koran text, including critical literary commentary . This project is largely based on a photo archive created by Gotthelf Bergsträßer , which Neuwirth received from her teacher Anton Spitaler . Spitaler had long claimed that the extremely important archive in Munich was burned in the Second World War .

Awards (selection)

Publications

Monographs

  • Abd al-Lathîf al-Bagdâdî's adaptation of the book Lambda of Aristotelian Metaphysics . Wiesbaden: Steiner 1976. (Publications of the Oriental Commission of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature 27.) ISBN 978-3-447-03563-7 (Revised version of the dissertation in Göttingen 1972)
  • Studies on the composition of the Meccan suras . Berlin and New York: de Gruyter 1981 (Studies on the language, history and culture of the Islamic Orient. New series. Volume 10) ISBN 3-11-007547-4 (Revised version of the habilitation in Munich 1976)
  • Studies on the composition of the Meccan suras. The literary form of the Koran. A testimony to its historicity? Second edition expanded by an introduction to the history of the Koran. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter 2007 (Studies on the history and culture of the Islamic Orient. New series. Volume 10) ISBN 978-3-11-019233-9
  • The Koran as a text from late antiquity. A European approach. Berlin: Verlag der Weltreligionen 2010. ISBN 978-3-458-71026-4 .
  • The Koran. Hand comment with translation. Volume 1: Early Meccan Suras. Poetic prophecy . Berlin: Verlag der Weltreligionen 2011. ISBN 978-3-458-70034-0
  • Koran Research - A Political Philology ?. The Bible, the Koran and the emergence of parliament in the mirror of late antique text politics and modern philology. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter 2014. (Litterae and Theologica. Volume 4.) ISBN 978-3-11-033927-7
  • The Koran. Hand comment with translation. Volume 2.1: Early Central Meccan Suras. The new people of God. Biblization of the old Arabic worldview . Berlin: Verlag der Weltreligionen 2017. ISBN 978-3-458-70039-5
  • How does a typeface come about in research and in history? The Hebrew Bible and the Koran. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-16-155242-7 (acceptance speech on receipt of the Lucas Prize).
  • The Koranic enchantment of the world and its disenchantment in history . Freiburg: Herder 2017. (Publications of the Pope Benedict XVI guest professorship at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Regensburg. Without volume) ISBN 978-3-451-34972-0

Editing

  • Cultural self-assertion of the Palestinians. Survey of Modern Palestinian Poetry. Edited by Angelika Neuwirth and others. Würzburg: Ergon 2001 (Beirut texts and studies. Volume 71) ISBN 978-3-89913-070-6
  • Arabic Literature - Postmodern Perspectives . Edited by Angelika Neuwirth and others. Munich: Edition text and criticism 2004. ISBN 978-3-88377-766-5 . Reprinted in London: Saqi 2010. ISBN 978-0-86356-694-3
  • Ghazal as world literature I. Transformations of a literary genre. Edited by Thomas Bauer and Angelika Neuwirth. Würzburg: Ergon 2005. (Beirut texts and studies. Volume 89) ISBN 3-89913-406-0
  • Ghazal as world literature II. From a literary genre to a great tradition. The ottoman gazel in context . Edited by Angelia Neuwirth and others. Würzburg: Ergon 2006. (Istanbul Texts and Studies. Volume 4) ISBN 978-3-89913-479-7
  • "In the full light of history". The science of Judaism and the beginnings of critical research into the Koran . Edited by Angelika Neuwirth and others. Würzburg: Ergon 2008. (Ex Oriente Lux. Volume 8) ISBN 978-3-89913-478-0 .
  • The Qurʾān in Context. Historical and literary investigations into the qurʾānic milieu . Edited by Angelika Neuwirth and others. Leiden and Boston: Brill 2009. ISBN 978-90-04-17688-1 (Second edition 2011.)
  • Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe . Edited by Angelika Neuwirth and Günter Stock. Berlin: Academy 2010. (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.) ISBN 978-3-05-004905-2
  • Late antiquity thinking space. Reflections on antiquity in the context of the Koran . Edited by Angelika Neuwirth and others. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2016. (Episteme in Motion. Volume 5.) ISBN 978-3-447-10599-6

Essays

  • On the structure of the Yusuf sura . In: Studies in Arabic and Semitic Studies. Anton Spitaler presented by his students for his seventieth birthday . Edited by Werner Diem and Stefan Wild. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1980, pp. 123-152.
  • Ha-roman 'Al-Mutasha'il' me'et Emil Habibi ke-nisayon ​​le-demitizatsiya shel ha-historiya . ( Emil Habibi's novel 'The Peptimist' as an attempt to demythize history.) In: Ha-Mizrah he-hadash. Jerusalem, 35, pp. 88-101 (1993) (Hebrew).
  • Miḥnat al-adab al-muzmina. Qiyam man yajib an tasūd fī l-mujtama '? Al-Qaḍiyya llatī taṭraḥuhā l-al-maqāma Ramliyya li ABI Muhammad al-Qāsim Hariri . (The endless malaise of the literary figures: whose values ​​should determine society? The legal case raised by the Maqama of Ramleh.) In: al-Adab, Beirut, 9-10 (1997), pp. 70-75, (Arabic)
  • You texte de récitation au canon en passant par la liturgie. A propos de la génèse de la composition des sourates et de sa redissolution au cours du développement du culte islamique . In: Arabica 47/2 (2000), pp. 194–229, (French)
  • On the archeology of a scripture. Reflections on the Quran before its compilation . In: Dispute over the Koran. The Luxenberg Debate. Viewpoints and backgrounds . Edited by Christoph Burgmer. Berlin: Schiler 2004, pp. 82–97.
  • Emblems of Exile. Layla and Majnun in Egypt, Palestine, Israel and Lebanon. In: Mélanges´de l'Université Saint-Joseph 58 (2005), pp. 163–190.
  • Biblical Books in Arabic Poetry. Mahmud Darwish's Palestinian reading of the biblical books Genesis, Exodus and Song of Songs. In: Journal for German Studies. New series 13 (2005) pp. 157-182.
  • Blood and ink, sacrifice and writing. Biblical and Koranic memory figures in the Middle Eastern martyr discourse . In: Ink and Blood. Politics, eroticism and poetics of martyrdom . Edited by Andreas Krass and Thomas Frank. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 2008, pp. 25–58.
  • La transmission de l'Ecrit Celeste. In: Religions & Histoire. Aux Origines du Coran 1 (2008) pp. 44-51 (French).
  • Puzzles. Mahmud Darwish between Hebrew and Arabic literary canon . In: Accents. Zeitschrift für Literatur, 5 (2009), pp. 411-431.
  • Time and eternity in the Psalms and in the Koran (Ps 136 and Sura 55) . In: Time and Eternity as Space for Divine Action. Religious historical, theological and philosophical perspectives. Edited by Reinhard Kratz and Hermann Spieckermann. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter 2009, pp. 319–342.
  • A European reading of the Koran. Koran science in the tradition of the science of Judaism . In: Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe . Edited by Angelika Neuwirth and Klaus von Stosch. Berlin: Akademie 2010, pp. 107–129.
  • The Qur'ân - Islamic Legacy and Legacy of Late Antiquity to Europe . In: Challenges to Islamic Theology in Europe. Challenges for Islamic Theology in Europe . Edited by Mouhanad Khorchide and Klaus von Stosch. Freiburg: Heder 2012, pp. 31–49.
  • Via causalitatis as a shared hermeneutical perspective in biblical wisdom texts and in the Qur'ân ?. Divine Speech in the book of job and in the qur'ânic creation records . In: Perspectives. Horizons of Jewish cultural history . Edited by Susanne Plietzsch and Armin Eidherr. Berlin: Neofelis 2018, pp. 75–93 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Angelika Neuwirth. Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin, archived from the original on December 7, 2013 ; accessed on February 22, 2018 .
  2. ^ The science of Judaism and the beginnings of historical-critical research on the Koran and Islam: A contribution to the German-Jewish history of science
  3. ↑ Andrew Higgins, The Lost Archive The Wall Street Journal , Jan. 12, 2008
  4. ↑ Press release from the Volkswagen Foundation on the “Pro Geisteswissenschaften” initiative idw-online.de, June 1, 2006
  5. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Angelika Neuwirth at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 15, 2016.
  6. ^ Report from the University of Bamberg. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  7. ^ Juliane Kaune: Fritz Behrens Foundation. Two important research awards from Hanover. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine from October 13, 2010. Retrieved on March 1, 2013.
  8. ↑ Appointment as an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. ( Memento from April 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Charlotte Brückner-Ihl: Prof. Angelika Neuwirth receives the Erwin Stein Prize 2017. Justus Liebig University Gießen, press release of March 10, 2017 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on March 10, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Neuwirth, Angelika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleinknecht, Angelika (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Arabist and Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Nienburg / Weser