Abbas Hosseini Ghaemmaghami

Ayatollah Seyyed Abbas Hosseini Ghaemmaghami (* 1965 ) is an Islamic theologian and legal scholar as well as a philosopher and social scientist .

He was born the son of Seyyed Mehdi, a descendant of the well-known political family of Ghaem Magham Farahani from Tehran , former Prime Minister under Mohammed Shah . This in turn derives his family tree from Imam Zain-ul-Abedin over 34 generations .

Studies and career

In addition to the official school, Ghaemmaghami studied religious studies at the theological university in Tehran. At the universities of Tehran and Qom he was trained in Islamic law, philosophy and mysticism and was qualified as a mujdahid to find the law independently . At the theological university in Tehran, Ghaemmaghami lectured for several years in Islamic law and philosophy, and also at several universities in Tehran on the fundamentals of mysticism and philosophy, political thought and comparative scholastic theology.

In the works of Ghaemmaghami some theories have been drafted and investigated. The most important is the explanation and clarification of the legitimized methodological role of human reason in the process of proving the Islamic provisions, the separation between subjective legitimation and objective legitimation, with the emphasis on the need for objective legitimation in political rule and the Analysis of the methodology of ijtihād based on the foundations of worldview should be mentioned.

In 1988 Ghaemmaghami published several articles. With these investigations in the free field of Islamic legislation, a template for a minimum of Sharia law based on the accepted principles (axioms) in Ijtihad and the technical basis of Islamic law is made available for the first time. In 1998 the collection of Islamic legal theories in the volume Islamic Legal Research was chosen as Book of the Year by the theological college in the fields of “Islamic Law” and “Usul”.

Ghaemmaghami has published more than 100 articles and books on the subjects of philosophy , mysticism , law and especially Islamic law . In 1998 Ghaemmaghami was the youngest candidate for the elections to the Expert Council .

In 1994 the Department of Middle East Research at Berkeley University invited Ghaemmaghami to teach higher education in the subjects of mysticism and theology.

Work in Europe

From 2004 to 2008 Ayatollah Ghaemmaghami worked as an imam and head of the Islamic Center Hamburg (IZH). For example, Ghaemmaghami condemned the violent protests in the course of the cartoon dispute and declared in a fatwa after the attacks in London in 2005 that terrorism and Islam were incompatible.

As chairman of the Islamic-European Union of Shia Scholars and Theologians (IEUS), which he was elected chairman in 2006 by members from 16 European countries, he represents moderate positions. According to its own statements, the main goals of this union are efforts to achieve greater understanding with European societies and the representation of an Islam that is based on reason and rejects extremist behavior and actions by fundamentalists. At the EU Interfaith Meeting, he also expressed his willingness to work with Jewish scholars on specific issues.

Ghaemmaghani published a statement in the FAZ in November 2010 with the title: Does the Koran permit adulterers to be stoned to death ? In it Ghaemmaghani states that there is no confirmation of this punitive method in the Koran . The penalty for fornication would be one hundred lashes, but - according to the Koranic view - could be reduced to half. Similarly, Ghaemmaghani asks what the “half of a stoning” is and comes to the conclusion “that stoning cannot be acceptable from a Koranic point of view”.

literature

• Seyyed A. Ghaemmaghami: European Islam or Islam in Europe? Schiler Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-89930-282-0 .

Web links

• Abbas Hosseini Ghaemmaghami's website
• Website of the Islamic Center Hamburg
• Website of the Islamic-European Union of Shia Scholars and Theologians (IEUS)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Islamic Center Hamburg: Head of the IZH ; accessed on August 20, 2016.
2. ↑ Mohammed cartoons: Imam castigates excesses . taz, February 8, 2006
3. ↑ Verena Frick: “We don't want a parallel society”. Open doors: How Muslim communities seek dialogue with their neighbors ; Parliament issue 50, 2007.
4. ↑ Islamic-European Union of Shia Scholars and Theologians (IEUS)
5. ↑ Jewish leaders buoyed by EU interfaith meeting  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Jerusalem Post, June 4, 2006.  
6. ↑ Abbas Hosseini Ghaemmaghami: Islamic Law: Does the Koran permit stoning? Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 17, 2010; accessed on faz.net on February 22, 2013
7. ↑ Review: Heinz Odermann: It is moral to protect life. Islam in Europe: Ayatollah SA Hosseini Ghaemmaghami pleads for reform ; on the website ag-friedensforschung.de, from: Neues Deutschland, March 10, 2011