Abdoldjavad Falaturi

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Abdoldjavad Falaturi ( Persian عبدالجواد فلاطوری Abdoldschawad Falaturi , DMG ʿAbd-al-Ǧawād Falāṭūrī ; * January 19, 1926 in Isfahan ; † December 30, 1996 in Berlin ) was an Iranian - German scholar of Islam . In Germany he was particularly involved in research into Shiite Islam and in Christian-Islamic dialogue .

Life

Falaturi graduated from a German-Persian school in 1943. He then studied Islamic sciences ( Arabic literature , Islamic law , Islamic history , theology, logic, philosophy) at madrasas in Isfahan (two years), Tehran (two years), Mashhad (six years) and again Tehran (another three years). After completing his studies with an Idschtihād degree in 1950 and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy in 1954, he moved to Germany in 1954, where he studied philosophy , comparative religion (with Gustav Mensching ) and psychology as well as Greek and Latin in Mainz , Cologne and Bonn . In 1962 and 1964 Falaturi did his doctorate with Gottfried Martin with a thesis on the interpretation of the Kantian ethics in the light of respect .

While he was working on his habilitation, Falaturi taught Persian and Islamic studies at the universities of Hamburg (1961–64) and Cologne (1964–1973). The habilitation took place in 1973 with the reshaping of Greek philosophy through the Islamic way of thinking . From 1974 to 1991 he taught Islamic philosophy, theology and jurisprudence at the University of Cologne .

From 1965 to 1975 Falaturi was significantly involved in the establishment of the Schia library at the Oriental Seminary at the University of Cologne, which was founded during the time of the then seminar leader Erwin Gräf and whose leadership was continued after Falaturi by Werner Diem .

After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Falaturi was one of the few Persian religious scholars who remained in contact with the authorities of Azhar University . So he became a member of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs at Azhar University.

Falaturi was a founding member of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany in 1986 and co-founder of the Cologne “Islamic Scientific Academy for Research into the Interrelationships with Occidental Intellectual History and Culture” (ISWA; dissolved in 1997), which financed the Schia library from 1986 to 1992.

Falaturi founded the Cologne textbook analysis project, which from 1981 examined all approved textbooks in Germany for their image of Islam. In 1988 this project was internationalized as Islam in Textbooks .

In 1991, the Festschrift for Falaturi, edited by his long-time colleague Udo Tworuschka, was published. God is the Orient - God is the Occident. Festschrift for Abdoldjavad Falaturi on the occasion of his 65th birthday (= Cologne publications on the history of religion . 21) near Böhlau with contributions by Angelika Neuwirth , Albrecht Noth , Ernst Klingmüller , Axel Köhler , Jamal al Dîn Mohammad Mahmud , Roswitha Badry , Smail Balić , Werner Ende , Ingrid Craemer-Ruegenberg , Hans Daiber , Gerhard Endreß , Egbert Meyer , Tilman Nagel , Bert G. Fragner , Ulrich Haarmann , Klaus Kreiser .

Falaturi suffered a heart attack in October 1996, of which he died three months later. He is buried in his place of birth in the "Rose Garden of the Martyrs" cemetery. His literary estate is in the Imam Ali Mosque of the Islamic Center Hamburg .

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Falaturi's death, on April 27 and 28, 2007, an international conference of scientists and representatives of Muslim associations ( Udo Tworuschka , Reinhard Kirste , Mohamed Baqer Talgharizade , Nadeem Elyas , Ali Kızılkaya , Klaus Lefringhausen , Sabiha) took place at the University of Cologne El-Zayat , Mohamed Heidari , Tariq Ramadan , Hortense Reintjes-Anwari , Schams Anwari , Kamran Amir Arjomand , Houaida Taraji , Ali Rahbar , Bekir Alboğa , Marco Schöller , Navid Kermani ).

Publications

Books as an author
  • To interpret the Kantian ethics in the light of respect. With an appendix. Preparatory work for studies on a general Kant dictionary. Bonn 1965 (dissertation, University of Bonn, 1965).
  • Introductory course to the Persian language in 20 lessons. German Foundation for Developing Countries, Central Office for Foreign Studies, Bad Honnef 1971.
  • Islam in dialogue. Essays. 2nd Edition. Islamic Scientific Academy, Cologne 1979; 5th edition. 1996.
  • with AK Brohi, Erwin Graef, Reinhard May, Richard A. Debs, Farhat J. Ziadeh, Konrad Dilger: Contributions to Islamic legal thought (= studies on non-European legal theories. Volume 2). Editor R. May. Steiner, Wiesbaden / Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-515-04474-4 .
  • Al-Islām ka-māʿaraḍathu al-kutub al-madrasīya ad-dīnīya fī Ūrubbā. Islamic Scientific Academy, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-89108-007-7 .
    • English edition: Islam in religious education textbooks in Europe. Islamic Scientific Academy, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-89108-005-0 .
  • Muslim thoughts for teachers and textbooks authors. Translated by Herbert Schultze. Islamic Scientific Academy, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-89108-006-9 .
  • with Udo Tworuschka : Islam in the classroom. Contributions to intercultural education in Europe (= supplement to studies on international textbook research ). Diesterweg, Braunschweig 1991; 2nd Edition. 1992.
    • Translation: A guide to the presentation of Islam in school textbooks (= CSIC papers. Europe / Africa, No. 8). CSIC, Birmingham 1992, ISBN 0-946931-01-1 .
  • Western Concepts of Human Rights and the Koran: Lectures and Essays. Islamic Scientific Academy, Cologne 1992.
  • Basic concept and main ideas of Islam. Islamic Academy Germany, Hamburg 2002.
  • Dialogue between Christianity and Islam (= Islamic Academy Germany. Volume 1). 2nd edition. Islamic Academy Germany, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-9808229-1-5 .
Essays
  • The islam. A religion with social and political commitment. In: Contributions to conflict research. Psychopolitical Aspects. Volume 1 (1980), pp. 49-70.
  • Islam today and its relationship to the east and west. In: Theological quarterly . Volume 161 (1981), H. 3, pp. 209-219.
  • God and man from an Islamic point of view. In: Arab Cultural Center Cologne: In Conversation: Islam and Christianity. 1981, pp. 57-83,.
  • Spirituality - harmony of body, soul and spirit. In: Islamic Center Hamburg: Al-Fajr - The Dawn. Volume 20, pp. 34-36.
  • The islam. Religion of Rahma, of mercy. In: Abdoldjavad Falaturi, Jakob J. Petuchowski, Walter Strolz (ed.): Universal Fatherhood of God. Encounter of Religions (= Oratio Dominica Foundation. World Discussion of Religions. Series of publications on the great ecumenical movement. Volume 14). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau et al. 1987, ISBN 3-451-21098-3 , pp. 67-87.
  • The Sharīʿa - the Islamic legal system. In: Bavarian State Center for Political Education : World Power Islam. 1988, pp. 93-118.
  • Possibilities and limits of an intercultural conversation. In: Michael Klöcker , Udo Tworuschka (Ed.): Together - what else? Multicultural society in focus. Böhlau, Cologne 1990, pp. 45-47.
  • Tolerance and Peace Traditions in Islam. In: Peter Michael Pflüger (Ed.): Violence - why? Man: Destroyer and Shaper [... Papers at the 1991 annual congress of the International Society for Depth Psychology]. Walter, Olten 1992, pp. 62-81.
  • Islam and secular thinking. In: Dialogue of Religions. Vol. 5 (1995), pp. 122-129.
As editor
  • with Walter Strolz : Belief in the one God. Human experience of God in Christianity and Islam (= publications of the Oratio Dominica Foundation ). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau et al. 1975, ISBN 3-451-17363-8 .
  • with Jakob J. Petuchowski , Walter Strolz: Three ways to the one God. Experience of Faith in the Monotheistic Religions. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau et al. 1976.
  • with Walter Strolz, Shemaryahu Talmon : Hope for the future and expectation of salvation in the monotheistic religions (= publications by the Oratio Dominica Foundation. World Discussion of Religions. Volume 9). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau et al. 1983, ISBN 3-451-19893-2 .
  • with Michael Klöcker, Udo Tworuschka: The history of religion in public (= Cologne publications on the history of religion. Volume 1). Böhlau, Cologne and Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-412-04783-X .
  • Islam in the textbooks of the Federal Republic of Germany (= studies on international textbook research ). 7 volumes. Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research , Braunschweig and Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1986–1990.
  • with Jakob J. Petuchowski, Walter Strolz: Universal Fatherhood of God. Encounter of Religions (= Oratio Dominica Foundation. World Discussion of Religions. Series of publications on the great ecumenical movement. Volume 14). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau et al. 1987, ISBN 3-451-21098-3 .
  • Catalog of the library of Shiite literature in the Oriental Seminar of the University of Cologne. Saur, Munich et al. 1988, ISBN 3-598-10761-7 .

literature

  • Udo Tworuschka : On the way to a contemporary Islam. Memories of Abdoldjavad Falaturi. In: Thorsten Gerald Schneiders (ed.): Glorification of Islam. When criticism becomes taboo . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 253–258.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Tworuschka 2010, pp. 254–255.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Judith Pfeiffer: FALĀṬŪRĪ, ʿABD-AL-JAWĀD . In: Ehsan Yarshater (ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica . Volume IX (2), as of December 15, 1999, accessed on January 7, 2014 (English, including references)
  3. ↑ a b Abdoldjavad Falaturi's curriculum vitae on the pages of Udo Tworuschka on the website of the University of Jena ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b Kamran Amir Arjomand: The Schia library of the Oriental Seminary of the University of Cologne. In: Journal of the German Oriental Society. 146 (1996), pp. 173-174 ( PDF ).
  5. ↑ Tworuschka 2010, p. 253.
  6. ↑ 50 years of the Blue Mosque on the Alster - a reunion with friends from politics, religion, culture, science and business. ( Memento from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) izhamburg.com
  7. ↑ International conference and 8th annual conference on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the death of ( Memento of April 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Falaturi, Abdoldjavad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falaturi, Abdoldjawad; Falāṭūrī, ʿAbd al Ǧawād
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Persian Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Isfahan , Iran
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1996
Place of death Berlin , Germany