Muhammad Rassoul

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Muhammad Ahmad Rassoul , also Abū r-Riḍā Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rasūl (born April 22, 1929 in Maʿsarat Samalut, al-Minya Governorate , Upper Egypt ; † April 14, 2015 ), was an author, translator and active in the Cologne and Düsseldorf area Publisher of Islamic literature.

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The Egyptian and German-Egyptian legal scholar studied at Azhar University before settling in Cologne.

Rassoul wrote dozens of books on Islamic subjects. He published most of them in his own "IB Verlag Islamische Bibliothek", but some were also published by the Bonn branch of the World Islamic Call Society or by the Marburg Muslim Student Association (MSV). The publisher also published the articles of the “Meetings of German-speaking Muslims” in the “Haus des Islam” association .

In a research report by Ralph Ghadban , Rassoul is described as the "most widely used author and probably also the most widely read" author of Islamic media material in Germany.

On September 21, 1978, the Association Islamic Center Cologne (IZK) was founded in Cologne under the chairmanship of Rassoul . The IZK (dissolved in 2001) maintained close contacts with Millî Görüş (then AMGT, now IGMG) and the Islamic Community in Germany . According to Ursula Spuler-Stegemann , Rassoul was also head of a “mission institute in Cologne” and “is said to have split off from Millî Görüş (then AMGT) together with the right-wing extremists ”; In addition, there are indications of close contacts with Saudi Arabia .

In 1986, Rassoul submitted a translation of the Koran into German under the title The Approximate Meaning of the Qurʾān Karīm in German (for details see there ). Around this time Rassoul was also active as an imam in a Cologne mosque. In the guideline “ORIENTATION” of the Institute for Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin , Rassoul's translation, which is also offered online by the Central Council of Muslims in Germany via its website islam.de, is due to its strong “reference to the Arabic language and with a tendency towards euphemistic apologetics "Rated as" rather less recommendable ". The translation received particular attention from the Koran distribution campaign initiated in Germany by the Salafist Ibrahim Abou-Nagie in late 2011 , which uses Rassoul's translation (with a comment by the German convert Frank Bubenheim ). It was noted from various sides that the translation largely corresponds to the translation of the Ahmadiyya .

Rassoul's 1993 book Das “German Caliphate” also attracted attention , in which he sharply opposed democracy and Christians, prophesied the demise of democracy and propagated the establishment of a German caliphate . In this context, Mathias Rohe names Rassoul's writings in a row with those of Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi , Sayyid Qutb and Ahmad von Denffer , which contained “more than just admissible criticism of civilization” and “rather the propagation of a counter-society with extreme segregation tendencies” and “accordingly dangerous ". Ursula Spuler-Stegemann describes the German caliphate as "[n] icht less explosive than the writings of the two chaplains" ( Cemaleddin and Metin Kaplan ), "[the] content of these evil pamphlets" reinforces "Christian readers' prejudices against Islam" and stir up "hatred among Muslims against Christians and Europeans."

In its 824 page long and after keywords (such as "menstruation", "breast milk", "reading the newspaper", "on the toilet", "body odor", "discharge", "pets", "cross", "crying", "funeral" der Frau ”,“ Mischehe ”) ordered reference work The German Mufti (1997), Rassoul deals with numerous topics from an Islamic perspective, including the question of whether and how Muslims should organize themselves in Germany (e.g. in public corporations Right ), whereby he speaks out against the fact that the German state would give the wrong impression that Islam is structurally organized in a similar way to the Christian churches; This false impression was created in 1993 when Ali Yüksel (Millî Görüş IGMG chairman, later) from the Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany in Soest for Scheichülislam had been appointed. Another theme is the relationship between women and men, between which friendship is forbidden in Islam according to Rassoul; in modern society the friendship between man and woman is referred to as " marriage without a certificate ", which equates to fornication ; the only bond between a man and a woman should only be established through marriage. The book only contains rules of conduct for visiting a doctor for women. According to Rassoul, these should be examined by a Muslim doctor. If there is none, a non-Muslim doctor, then a male doctor in the presence of a nurse, is also possible in order to avoid forbidden togetherness with a man with decreasing preference. Ursula Spuler-Stegemann assesses the book as "aggressive and anti-Christian".

Rassoul was also the editor of Signs on the Path , one of the best-known books by the Muslim Brotherhood theorist Sayyid Qutb. In the 2006 report by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Baden-Württemberg , it was stated in connection with the portrayal of Islamist extremism that Rassoul's translation of Signs on the Path in the cover picture , published in May 2006, contained the emblem of January 2006 under the leadership of al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia founded Shura council of the mujahideen in Iraq. In the same report for the protection of the constitution it is also mentioned that various of Rassoul's books can be found on the homepage of Hizb ut-Tahrir . Last year's report quoted from an interview with Rassoul broadcast by the ARD magazine Monitor on October 13, 2005, in which the latter rejected the participation of Muslim children in birthday celebrations as "spoiling". He died in April 2015 at the age of 85.

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  1. ↑ Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rassoul died ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Obituary on schura-niedersachsen.de
  2. ↑ a b c Ursula Spuler-Stegemann : Muslims in Germany: Side by side or with each other ? (= Herder spectrum . Volume 4419). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, p. 91.
  3. ↑ a b c d Joseph Croitoru: All traces lead to Egypt . FAZ.NET, April 25, 2012 ( online ).
  4. ^ WA Shadid, PS van Koningsveld: Religious Authorities of Muslims in the West: Their Views on Political Participation . In: W. Shadid, PS van Koningsveld (Eds.): Intercultural Relations and Religious Authorities: Muslims in the European Union . Peeters, Leuven 2002, p. 159; interculturelecommunicatie.com (PDF).
  5. ↑ Ursula Spuler-Stegemann: Muslims in Germany: Side by side or with each other? (= Herder spectrum . Volume 4419). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, p. 258.
  6. ↑ Ralph Ghadban: Which Islam is represented in Europe? An investigation based on the publicly distributed material. The example of Germany . Berlin, June 2007, p. 29; ( ghadban.de ; PDF).
  7. ^ Thomas Lemmen : Islamic Organizations in Germany . Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Department of Labor and Social Policy, Bonn 2000, p. 60 ( FES Library, 2000 ).
  8. ^ Johann Büssow , Stefan Rosiny and Christian Saßmannshausen: ORIENTATION: A guide for (future) Islamic scholars at the Free University of Berlin . 7th edition, summer 2013, Berlin, p. 26 ( geschkult.fu-berlin.de ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ; PDF)).
  9. ↑ Florian Flade: A Koran in every German household . Die Welt, April 8, 2012 ( online ).
  10. ↑ So Eva Marie Kogel: In other words . In: zenith - Journal for the Orient , April 23, 2012 ( online ( Memento from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive )); Thomas Bauer in the Phoenix Round on April 17, 2012 (online here ( memento from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) or here )
  11. ^ The legal and Islamic scholar Mathias Rohe : Islamism in Germany. Some notes on the subject . In: Thorsten Gerald Schneiders (ed.): Glorification of Islam. When criticism becomes taboo . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, p. 180.
  12. ^ Mathias Rohe: Islamism and Sharia . In: Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Ed.): Integration and Islam (= Migration, Refugees and Integration . Volume 14). Nuremberg 2006, p. 131, FN. 25; bamf.de (PDF).
  13. ↑ Nina Wiedl: Daʾwa - the call to Islam in Europe . Hans Schiler Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 97.
  14. ^ Mathias Rohe: Islamism in Germany. Some notes on the subject . In: Thorsten Gerald Schneiders (ed.): Glorification of Islam. When criticism becomes taboo . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, p. 179.
  15. ↑ Ursula Spuler-Stegemann: Muslims in Germany: Side by side or with each other? (= Herder spectrum . Volume 4419). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, p. 92.
  16. ↑ a b Ursula Spuler-Stegemann: Muslims in Germany: Side by side or with each other ? (= Herder spectrum . Volume 4419). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, p. 254.
  17. ↑ Ursula Spuler-Stegemann: Muslims in Germany: Side by side or with each other? (= Herder spectrum , volume 4419). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, p. 227.
  18. ^ WA Shadid, PS van Koningsveld: Religious Authorities of Muslims in the West: Their Views on Political Participation . In: W. Shadid, PS van Koningsveld (Eds.): Intercultural Relations and Religious Authorities: Muslims in the European Union . Peeters, Leuven 2002, pp. 163-164; interculturelecommunicatie.com (PDF).
  19. ↑ Ursula Spuler-Stegemann: Muslims in Germany: Side by side or with each other? (= Herder spectrum . Volume 4419). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, p. 186.
  20. ↑ Necla Kelek : Marriage is not a question . In: Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (Ed.): Forced marriage in Germany (= research series of the Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth . Volume 1). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008, p. 88 ( bmfsfj.de ( Memento from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ; PDF)).
  21. ↑ Ursula Spuler-Stegemann: Muslims in Germany: Side by side or with each other? (= Herder spectrum . Volume 4419). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, p. 204.
  22. ^ Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Baden-Württemberg 2006 . Stuttgart 2007, pp. 20f, 58 ( urn : nbn: de: bsz: boa-a9a74dc1-7827-4e1a-8f41-ee0a08120e3a6 ).
  23. ^ Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Baden-Württemberg 2005 . Stuttgart 2005, p. 16 ( urn : nbn: de: bsz: boa-271a1a72-7eb7-43db-bab8-1803f62c98cb2 ).
  24. ↑ Author Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rassoul has died. Obituary on islamiq.de, April 16, 2015; accessed on April 16, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Rassoul, Muhammad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rassoul, Muhammad Ahmad; Ibn Rasūl, Abu ʾr Riḍā Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian author, translator and publisher of Islamic literature
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Maʿsarat Samalut, al-Minya Governorate , Upper Egypt
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2015