Angelika Hartmann (Islamic scholar)

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Angelika Hartmann (2013)

Angelika Hartmann (born December 3, 1944 in Kassel ) is a German scholar of Islamic studies and until her retirement in 2009 was a professor at several universities, most recently as professor of Islamic studies / Arabic studies at the Philipps University in Marburg

Career

Angelika Hartmann studied Islamic Studies, German Studies, Comparative Literature and Philosophy at the Universities of Göttingen, Hamburg and Istanbul. In 1971 she completed her doctorate at the University of Hamburg with the grade summa cum laude on the subject of an-Nasir li-Din Allah (1180–1225). Politics, religion, culture in the late Abbasid period . This work examines the history of Islam in the Middle Ages using the caliphate and religious-political currents in Baghdad. In 1982 she completed her habilitation at the University of Hamburg, where Hartmann worked as a research assistant from 1971 to 1989, and from 1982 also as a private lecturer with the license to teach Islamic studies / Arabic studies. The subject of the habilitation thesis was an Arabic text edition and analysis on the relationship between Islamic orthodoxy and philosophy with the title: `Umar as-Suhrawardis Rasf an-nasa'ih al-imaniya wa-kasf al-fada'ih al-yunaniya .

In 1986/87 Hartmann held the chair for Oriental Studies at Saarland University . From 1989 to 1993 she held the C3 professorship for Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Würzburg , and from 1990 to 1993 she was also the university women's representative. Subsequently, until 2006 she was C4 professor for Islamic studies with special emphasis on Arabic studies at the University of Giessen and head of the Institute for Oriental Studies. From 2006 to 2008 she was head of the Islamic Studies department at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Marburg.

From 1973 she held numerous guest lectures and took on projects, board and advisory board activities at home and abroad, including working (1987–1989, 1996–2002) on Documents relatifs à l'histoire des croisades of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , Paris. From 2000 to 2008 she was a sub-project leader in the Collaborative Research Center for Cultures of Remembrance of the German Research Foundation at the University of Giessen.

Her research interests are the cultural history of Islam in the Middle Ages, Arabic and Persian mysticism, theology and concepts of rule, Islamism and civil society, educational advice.

Scholarships and Awards

Publications

  • An-Nasir li-Din Allah. Politics, religion, culture in the late Abbasid period. (= Studies on the language, history and culture of the Islamic Orient. NF Volume 8). Berlin / New York 1975.
  • as publisher: History and memory in Islam (= forms of memory. 15). Göttingen 2004.
  • with S. Damir-Geilsdorf and B. Hendrich (eds.): Mental Maps - Space - Memory. Cultural studies approaches to the relationship between space and memory. (= Cultural studies: research and science. 1). Munster 2005.
  • with Konrad Schliephake (ed.): Applied interdisciplinary research on the Orient. Status and prospects in western and eastern Germany. (= Communications from the German Orient Institute. 14). Hamburg 1991.

Angelika Hartmann has published more than 40 articles in specialist journals and edited volumes. The focus is on historical as well as contemporary cultural studies. Selection:

  • An orthodox polemic against philosophers and free thinkers - a contemporary text against Hafiz? Mu'in ud-din Yazdi and his Targuma-yi Rasf an-nasa'ih. In: Islam. 56, 1979, pp. 274-293.
  • Siyah Qalem. Painting from the Mongolian-Turkish steppe area. In: HR Roemer u. A. Noth (Ed.): Studies on the history and culture of the Middle East. Festschrift B. Spuler. Leiden 1981, pp. 141-166.
  • Comments on the manuscripts of `Umar as-Suhrawardi, real and supposed autographs. (= Festschrift A. Dietrich). In: Islam. 60, 1983, pp. 112-142.
  • Sur l´édition d´un texts arabe médiéval. Rasf an-nasa'ih al-imaniya wa-kasf al-fada'ih al-yunaniya de `Umar as-Suhrawardi, composé à Baghdad en 621/1224. In: Islam. 62, 1985, pp. 71-97.
  • Al-Malik al-Mansur (d. 617/1220), an Ayyubid regent and historian. In: ZDMG . 136, 1986, pp. 570-606.
  • Les ambivalences d´un sermonnaire hanbalite. Ibn al-Gawzi (m. En 597/1201), sa carrière et son Kitab al-Hawatim. In: Annales Islamologiques. 22, 1986, pp. 51-115.
  • Islamic preaching in the Middle Ages. In: Saeculum. 38, 1987, pp. 336-366.
  • Isma`ilite theology in Sunni `ulama´ of the Middle Ages? In: L. Hagemann, E. Pulsfort (ed.): But you are all brothers. Festschrift A. Th. Khoury. Würzburg / Altenberge 1990, pp. 190-206.
  • Cyclical thinking in Islam. On the historical picture of Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406). In: E. Ruhe (Ed.): Europe's Islamic neighbors. Studies on the literature and history of the Maghreb. Würzburg 1993, pp. 125-159.
  • Cosmogony and theory of the soul in `Umar as-Suhrawardi (st. 632/1234). In: D. Bellmann (Ed.): Commemorative letter W. Reuschel. Stuttgart 1994, pp. 135-156.
  • Islamic "fundamentalism". Perception and Reality of a New Development in Islam. In: From Politics and Contemporary History. Supplement to the weekly newspaper Das Parlament, B 28/97, July 4, 1997, pp. 3–13.
  • On the term “secret” (sirr) in Islamic mysticism. One try. In: A. Spitznagel (Ed.): Secret and secrecy. Göttingen / Bern 1998, pp. 67–96.
  • Islam and Europe. About the need for a critical dialogue. In: Giessener Universitätsblätter. 33, 2000, pp. 17-30.
  • Pluralism and tolerance from the perspective of Islam. In: Chr. Augustin, J. Wienand, Chr. Winkler (eds.): Religious pluralism and tolerance in Europe. Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 123-186.
  • Islam and Europe. Historic interactions re-evaluated. In: S. Kenan (Ed.): The Ottomans and Europe. Istanbul 2010, pp. 387-397.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Hartmann own homepage, accessed on October 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ Angelika Hartmann ( memento of October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Philipps University of Marburg , accessed on April 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ Angelika Hartmann ( memento of July 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Justus Liebig University of Gießen , accessed on April 13, 2013.
  4. ↑ Angelika Hartmann on the website of the University of Mainz , accessed on April 13, 2013.
  5. ↑ Angelika Hartmann own homepage, accessed on October 11, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Angelika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar of Islam and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel