Ahmad Milad Karimi

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Ahmad Milad Karimi (2013)

Ahmad Milad Karimi (born February 10, 1979 in Kabul ) is an Afghan - German religious philosopher, Islamic scholar, translator of the Koran , poet, publisher and co-editor of Kalliope. Journal of Literature and Art . Since July 2016 he has been a full professor for Islamic philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster. For his diversity and his “rise from refugee to professor” (ZDF), Karimi is in the media echoes as a “boy wonder” (Der Spiegel) , “ all-rounder ” (Badische Zeitung), “Germany's most active religious philosopher” (qantara), “one of the most prominent scholars of Islam Europe ”(ORF), and one of the“ formative minds of Islam in Germany ”(Deutschlandradio). Karimi was awarded the Rumi Prize for Islamic Studies (not to be confused with the international Rumi Awards ) for his work Dedication as the “most extraordinary” book of 2015 in the field of Islamic studies in German-speaking countries . In 2019, Karimi received the Voltaire Prize for "Tolerance, international understanding and respect for difference" from the University of Potsdam and the Friede Springer Foundation .

Life

Ahmad Milad Karimi was born in 1979 to Afghan parents; he is a German citizen. At the age of 13, he and his family fled Afghanistan due to the civil war there . After a long odyssey, he found his new home in Darmstadt . There he attended secondary school, vocational school and secondary school in order to finally do the Abitur at the Bertolt Brecht School . Karimi studied philosophy and Islamic studies in Darmstadt, Freiburg and New Delhi . From 2001 he was first a basic and then a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . Karimi received her doctorate with a thesis on Hegel and Heidegger at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . He was the co-founder of two publishing houses, Salam Children's and Young People's Book Publishing, which he also served as publishing director from 2009 to 2012, and Kalam Verlag for Islamic theology and religious education , where he was publishing director from 2010 to 2012. Before he became a full professor of Islamic philosophy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster in 2016 , he was a substitute professor for Kalām , Islamic philosophy and mysticism at the Center for Islamic Theology there . His autobiography is entitled Osama bin Laden asleep with the fish. Why I like to be a Muslim and why Marlon Brando had a lot to do with it . Karimi is married and has a son and a daughter.

Research priorities

Systematic: Islamic religious philosophy , Kalām / Neo-Kalām (dialectical theology), Islamic mysticism , aesthetics , hermeneutics , metaphysics and metaphysics criticism.

Historical: Ancient philosophy , Islamic philosophy of the Middle Ages, modern times and the 20th century, Muʿtazila , Aschʿarīya and Māturīdīya , German idealism and the criticism of idealism, philosophies of the 20th century.

Koran

In October 2009, Ahmad Milad Karimi submitted a complete new translation of the Koran , which was published by Herder-Verlag in Freiburg. Karimi consistently seeks the closest possible proximity to the original in his translation and emphasizes the poetic quality of the Koran. For him, as he remarks in the epilogue of his translation, the focus is "in addition to the philological accuracy and above all the aesthetic atmosphere of the Quran singing". Karimi is concerned with conveying that “aesthetic-poetic experience” that “fundamentally determines the religiosity of Muslims.” Accordingly, his translation is one that is declared intended for recitation (and accordingly provided with breath marks). By expressly avoiding bulky or dark passages, which also characterize the Arabic original for many listeners, or trying to make them more understandable in his translation, Karimi wants to convey the idea of ​​the Koran to the reader as an open, aesthetic and poetic work of art, which characterizes the reception of the Koran, especially in the theological sense.

The Protestant theologian Reinhard Kirste writes in his review: “Now an Islamic scholar, philosopher and poet, Ahmad Milad Karimi, who originally came from Afghanistan, has set out to bring this revealed treasure in its poetic power to light again. So what happened theologically and poetically between the poet and scientist can certainly be seen, even if the reviewer cannot check the original text, but has to question the publisher's advertising, where it is a literal translation. And it remains to be seen whether it is really closer to the Arabic original than ever before, because there are some dark spots in the crane [sic] that translators and commentators have dealt with in very different ways. Anyone concerned with the problem of translations, especially from the Semitic language area , knows that every translation can only be an approximation of the available revelation text. But this translation already has a dialogic quality thanks to the work of the translator and editor. Karimi also makes it clear that the linguistic power and linguistic beauty of the Arabic original can be understood in German. "

Awards

  • Rumi Prize 2015, for the publication Dedication. Basic questions of systematic Islamic theology . Laudation: Bernhard Uhde
  • Voltaire Prize 2019, for "Tolerance, international understanding and respect for difference", laudation: Florian J. Schweigert
  • German Dialogue Prize 2019 in the "Science and Education" category. Laudation: Karl-Josef Kuschel

Works (selection)

Web links

Commons : Ahmad Milad Karimi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Milad Karimi's autobiographical book. ZDF, "Forum am Freitag", January 24, 2014.
  2. ↑ Suras in the final spurt. Der Spiegel , No. 26/2009 of June 22, 2009
  3. ↑ Integrating Islam into democracy. Badische Zeitung , July 3, 2010.
  4. ↑ Breaking through the strangeness of the Koran. Qantara, February 4, 2016.
  5. ↑ [(ORF) http://oe1.orf.at/programm/424420 A new Lessing? - Milad Karimi in portrait. ] ORF , “Time fulfilled”, January 17, 2016.
  6. ↑ Ahmad Milad Karimi, author and publisher. Deutschlandradio , series: "Formative heads of Islam - close-ups from Germany", August 15, 2012
  7. ↑ Germany to grant Rumi Award 2015 in Islamic Studies. More news agency from February 6, 2016.
  8. ↑ Voltaire Prize Winner 2019: Ahmad Milad Karimi . University of Potsdam. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
  9. ↑ Milad Karimi: Finally a real professor. wn.de, July 19, 2016, accessed on July 5, 2018.
  10. ↑ Islamic scholar, philosopher and poet: Milad Karimi. domradio.de, broadcast: “People”, July 16, 2010
  11. ↑ Review as part of a seminar at the TU Dortmund, winter semester 2009/2010 by Reinhard Kirste, December 16, 2009
  12. ^ Awarding the Rumi Prize to Dr. Ahmad Milad Karimi. University of Munster
  13. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ahmad Milad Karimi. German Dialogue Prize
personal data
SURNAME Karimi, Ahmad Milad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karimi, Milad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan-German philosopher, Islamic scholar, publisher, translator and poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabul