Ömer Özsoy

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Ömer Özsoy (born May 17, 1963 in Bünyan ( Kayseri ), Turkey ) is an Islamic theologian. Since 2006 he has been the first Muslim theology professor to hold a chair in Germany. Since 2012 he has held the professorship for Koran exegesis in the Department of Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Life and accomplishments

After graduating from high school in Kayseri in Ankara, Ömer Özsoy studied at the theological faculty of Ankara University in the department of Islamic theology and philosophy. In 1991 he received his doctorate on the subject of the shift in meaning of a Quranic expression: sunnatullāh . In 1996 he became a lecturer in Koran exegesis at the Theological Faculty of Ankara University, where he has been a professor since 2004. In 2005 he conducted research as a scholarship holder at the Department of Arabic Studies at the University of Göttingen . From 2006 to 2012 he was an endowed professor for Islamic religion, then for genesis and exegesis of the Koran at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. Since 2012 he has been a full professor of Koran exegesis.

The Institute for Studies in the Culture and Religion of Islam has existed at the Frankfurt Goethe University since 2009 in the Faculty of Linguistics and Cultural Studies . The endowed professorship established there and the endowed visiting professorship were financed by the Turkish Presidium for Religious Affairs ( Diyanet Isleri Baskanligi ). In 2012, the Center for Islamic Studies (ZEFIS) was founded as part of a cooperation between the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , which has since been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . Ömer Özsoy holds one of the five professorships combined in the center; the two endowed professorships financed from Turkey no longer exist.

The theological direction represented by Özsoy is called the Ankara School . About his theological positions it says: “Only about ten percent of what the Koran wants to say can also be found in the text, the rest is in need of interpretation against the background of the respective time. Özsoy therefore does not consider the Koran to be timeless and universally valid. And with this historical-critical perspective, the Koran expert offends conservative Muslims, who basically claim all Koranic instructions for the present. "

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  1. ↑ Ömer Özsoy: CV. Retrieved January 10, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Ömer Özsoy: CV. Retrieved January 10, 2016 .
  3. ↑ For the financing by the DITIB cf. Arno Widmann in the Frankfurter Rundschau on June 9, 2008 ( memento from July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ): "The Frankfurt Chair for Islamic Religion, financed by Turkey, creates more problems than it seems to solve."
  4. ↑ The institute in profile. Institute for Studies in the Culture and Religion of Islam, accessed January 10, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Portrait of the Turkish Koran expert Ömer Özsoy: Modern understanding of Islam instead of missionary thought - Qantara.de . In: Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World . ( qantara.de [accessed on January 10, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Özsoy, Ömer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish university professor, theology professor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bünyan , Kayseri