Christine Schirrmacher

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Christine Schirrmacher (born May 2, 1962 in Lörrach ) is a German Islamic scholar , author, professor and consultant on Islamic issues.

life and work

Christine Schirrmacher studied Islamic Studies , History and Modern German Literature in Giessen from 1982 to 1985 and Islamic Studies, History and Comparative Religious Studies in Bonn from 1985 to 1988 . She completed her studies in 1988 with an MA . She then completed a doctoral degree in Bonn, where she studied the Christian-Islamic controversy in the 19th and 20th centuries and the history of the impact of the so-called Barnabas Gospel for Dr. phil. in Islamic Studies. In 2012 she completed her habilitation in the Islamic Studies department of the University of Bonn on the subject of “'There is no compulsion in religion ' (Sura 2,256). The apostasy from Islam in the judgment of contemporary Islamic theologians. Discourses on apostasy, religious freedom and human rights ”.

She is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn and, since 2005, Professor of Islamic Studies at the Evangelical Theological Faculty (ETF) in Leuven / Belgium. In 2013/2014 she held a professorship at the Institute for Human Geography (focus on political geography and conflict research) at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , and in 2013 a substitute professorship at the Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Erfurt . Since 2007 she has been continuously working as a guest lecturer at state and federal security policy authorities.Since 2001 she has been teaching annually at the Foreign Service Academy (formerly: Diplomatenschule) of the Foreign Office in Berlin and holds in-house seminars at federal ministries and government-related institutions. From 2003 to 2015 she was an adjunct lecturer in Islamic studies at the Free Theological University (FTH) Gießen.

She is also the scientific director of the Institute for Islamic Issues of the German Evangelical Alliance in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland as well as spokeswoman and advisor for Islamic issues of the World Evangelical Alliance .

In addition, she is

She gave guest lectures as well as study and lecture trips to numerous Islamic countries. Schirrmacher is (as of 2017) involved in leading dialogue initiatives such as a reply to the “ Open Letter from 138 Muslim Theologians to the Leaders of Christian Churches” (2007) and, at the invitation of the Yale University's “Yale Center for Faith and Culture”, also at the follow-up conference “ Loving God and Neighbor in Word and Deed: Implications for Muslims and Christians ”or the“ Berlin Forum for Progressive Muslims ”(2011; 2013), a specialist conference of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . In addition, she worked several times as an expert on the Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid Committee of the German Bundestag.

The Institute for Islamic Issues , which she heads, comes to the conclusion (as of 2007) that no Islamic country today grants Christians real religious freedom ; see also the World Persecution Index . Rather, they are socially discriminated against and harassed in numerous countries . Anyone who converts from Islam to Christianity will e.g. Sometimes even threatened with death (see apostasy in Islam ). Even Europe stand in the age of globalization and migration of new challenges. This also includes the preservation of religious freedom as “a trademark of Europe” (Tom Königs) within the framework of the free-democratic basic order. Anyone who fights this cannot, however, claim freedom of religion.

Private

Schirrmacher has been married to the sociologist of religion and human rights activist Thomas Schirrmacher since 1985 . You have two children.

Publications (selection)

Independent publications

  • with Thomas Schirrmacher: "Prophet" from the desert: Mohammed. Schwengeler, Berneck 1984, ISBN 3-85666-283-9 .
  • With the enemy's weapons. Christian-Muslim Controversies in the 19th and 20th Centuries. (Dissertation) Klaus-Schwarz-Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87997-247-8 .
  • The islam. History, teaching, differences from Christianity. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 1994, vol. 1 ISBN 3-7751-2132-3 , vol. 2 ISBN 3-7751-2133-1 ; 2003.
  • Small lexicon on the Islamic family. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2002.
  • Challenge Islam. Islam between war and peace. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2002.
  • with Ursula Spuler-Stegemann : Women and the Sharia. Human rights in Islam. Hugendubel, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-72052527-9 .
  • The islam. An introduction. SJD, Lahr 2005, ISBN 3-501-05253-7 .
  • Islam and Christian Faith. A comparison. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2006, ISBN 3-7751-3666-5 .
  • Islamic human rights declarations and their critics. Objections by Muslims and non-Muslims to the validity of Sharia law. Institute for Legal Policy at the University, Trier 2007.
  • Murder in the “name of honor” between migration and tradition. Institute for Legal Policy at the University of Trier, Trier 2007.
  • Sharia. Law and Law in Islam. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7751-4657-9 .
  • Islamism - When religion becomes politics. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7751-5259-4 .
  • The question of the voluntary nature of Islamic marriage: Sharia law requirements and social practice, taking into account the phenomenon of forced marriage . Legal Policy Forum - Legal Policy Forum, 61st Trier: Institute for Legal Policy at the University of Trier, 2012 ( PDF )
  • Islam and Democracy: A Contrast ?. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-7751-5451-2 .
  • Oppressed women. SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2014. ISBN 978-3-7751-5480-2 .
  • Justice of the Peace, Arbitrator, Sharia Court of Justice: Can the role of mediator be transferred to the secular constitutional state? (= Legal Policy Forum. Vol. 62). Institute for Legal Policy at the University of Trier, Trier 2013 ( PDF ).
  • Political Islam and Democracy: Areas of Conflict. SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7751-5655-4 .
  • There is no compulsion in religion (sura 2,256): The apostasy from Islam in the judgment of contemporary Islamic theologians. Discourses on apostasy, religious freedom and human rights (additional revised version of the habilitation thesis, University, Bonn 2012). Ergon-Verlag , Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-95650-084-8 .
  • The question of the voluntary nature of Islamic marriage: Sharia law requirements and social practice, taking into account the phenomenon of forced marriage. Legal Policy Forum, 61. Trier: Institute for Legal Policy at the University of Trier, 2012 ( PDF ).
  • Political Islam and Democracy: Areas of Conflict . Hänssler: Holzgerlingen, 2015.
  • L'islam. Histoire - Doctrines - Islam et Christianisme (Islam. History - Doctrine - Differences to Christianity. Hänssler: Neuhausen, 1994/2003), 2 volumes. Charols / FR, 2016.
  • "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (Sura 2: 256). Apostasy from Islam as Judged by Contemporary Islamic Theologians. Discourses on Apostasy, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights . Wipf & Stock, Eugene / Oregon / VKW, Bonn 2016 ( PDF ).
  • Arab Spring, “Islamic State” (IS), Christians in the Middle East and the search for a political future. Special print No. 12: Institute for Islamic Issues, Bonn, 2016 (40 pages).
  • with Haggag Ali and Stephan Conermann (eds.): Can Freedom Be Unlimited? Examples of Censorship in Middle Eastern Societies in the 19th and 20th Centuries . EB-Verlag: Berlin, 2017.
  • with Harald Meyer and Ulrich Vollmer (eds.): The Bonn Orient and Asian Studies in the 20th Century: Representatives and Milestones . East Asia Publishing House: Gossenberg, 2018.

Articles & book contributions

  • The Influence of Higher Bible Criticism on Muslim Apologetics in the Nineteenth Century. In: Jacques Waardenburg : Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions. Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford 1999, pp. 270-279.
  • Islam and secularization: illustrated using the example of Islamic human rights declarations . In: Walter Schweidler (ed.). Post-Secular Society: Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Research. Verlag Karl Alber, Munich 2007, pp. 363-406.
  • Legal Concepts in Islam . In: Horst Dreier, Eric Hilgendorf (eds.). Cultural identity as the basis and limit of the right: files from the IVR conference from 28-30. September 2006 in Würzburg. Nomos in Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, pp. 339–364.
  • Highlights on the cartoon controversy and the ban on images in modern Islamic societies. In: Eckhard Leuschner; Mark R. Hesslinger (ed.). The Image of God in Judaism, Christianity and Islam - From the Old Testament to the cartoon controversy. Michael-Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, pp. 273-286.
  • "Converts to Islam: the more believers - the more radical?" In: Reinhard Hempelmann (ed.). Religious differences and religious dialogues: Festschrift - 50 years of EZW. Berlin: Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen, 2010, pp. 133–149.
  • Intellectual historical origins of Political Islam / Islamism. In: Johannes Kandel : "Political Islam" - "Islamism". Extremist Islam variants in the discussion 20. – 22. October 2011. Berlin Forum for Progressive Muslims. Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Berlin 2012, pp. 5–11 ( www.fes.de/cgi-bin/gbv.cgi?id=09185&ty=pdf PDF ).
  • The Role of Islamism in the Arab Revolution: A Snapshot. In: Austrian Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (Hrsg.): A turning point in the Arab world - what answers does Europe find? (= Dialog. Vol. 61). Lit, Vienna 2012, pp. 79–94.
  • “Sharia legal conceptions of religious freedom and women's rights in conflict with the secular constitutional state”. In: “'Islam' in the modern constitutional state - Realization and limitation of religious claims within the framework of the free democratic basic order”, ed. from the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Hesse on the occasion of its 60th anniversary, Wiesbaden, 2012.
  • "50 Years of Islam in Germany - Is Its 'Recognition' by the German State Overdue?" In: Steps into the Future. The relationship between state and church at the beginning of the 21st century. Edited by the Academy for Politics and Contemporary History / Hanns Seidel Foundation, Munich: 2012, pp. 87–97.
  • An “Islamic” phenomenon? The reign of terror of the “Islamic State” (IS) in Iraq and Syria In: Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte . 11/2014, pp. 45-48.
  • "Islam in Germany - Germany challenged?" In: Eckhard Jesse; Tilman Mayer (ed.). Germany challenged. Publication series of the Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung 105. Duncker & Humblot: Berlin, 2014, pp. 187–209.
  • Discourses on human and freedom rights in Islamic societies. Highlights of a wide-ranging debate. In: Michael Reder, Maria-Daria Cojocaru (ed.): On the practice of human rights. Forms, potentials and contradictions. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 133–155.
  • "Religious Roots and Perspectives: Islam". In: Anna Goppel; Corinna Mieth ; Christian Neuhäuser (ed.). Handbook of Justice. JB Metzler: Berlin, 2016, pp. 41–46.
  • "Sin and hell may be grieved": death and life in the Koran and in the Bible. In: Thomas A. Seidel; Ulrich Schacht (ed.): Death, where is your sting? Fear of death and lust for life in Christianity . Ev. Publishing house: Leipzig, 2017, pp. 83–110.
  • The ghost club of Bonn University - black magic circle or a professorial exchange of ideas? In: Jeanine Bischoff; Petra Maurer; Charles Ramble (ed.). On a Day of a Month of the Fire Bird Year. Festschrift for Peter Schwieger on Occasion of his 65th Birthay. Bonn, 2017, pp. 587–604.
  • Questions of identity - identity insecurities - endangering identity anchors: clarifications and positioning in Europe and for Europe. In: Andreas Hermes Kick (ed.) Identity. The search for identity in a changing world: why identity? Series Affekt - Emotion - Ethik, Vol. 17: Publications of the Institute for Medical Ethics, Basics and Methods of Psychotherapy and Health Culture Mannheim. Lit Verlag: Berlin, 2017, pp. 61–83.
  • The "Islamic State" (IS), the proclamation of the caliphate and the war against the non-Muslim communities: Background to the current reorganization of the Middle East. In: Dorothea Weltecke (ed.). New Aramaic Studies (= Schola Nisibin - Beṯ Sefro da-Nsibin vol. 1). Research Center for Aramaic Studies at the University of Frankfurt. Peter Lang: Frankfurt, 2017, pp. 333–354.
  • The attractiveness of jihadism for young people in Europe: causes - explanatory models - countermeasures. In: Uwe Backes; Alexander Gallus; Eckhard Jesse (ed.). Yearbook Extremism and Democracy 29/2017. Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2017, pp. 43–67.
  • Freedom or Censorship: Opposites? Discourses on Freedom, Freedom of Religion, and Freedom of Belief in Middle Eastern Societies of the 20th Century In: Christine Schirrmacher; Haggag Ali; Stephan Conermann (ed.). Can Freedom Be Unlimited? Examples of Censorship in Middle Eastern Societies in the 19th and 20th Centuries. EB-Verlag: Berlin, 2017, pp. 19–46.
  • Surrogacy - Abortion - Organ Transplant. Inner-Islamic debates on bioethics as reflected in the globalization of medicine. In: Thomas Bahne; Katharina Waldner (ed.). The perfecting of man? Religious and Ethical Perspectives. Lectures of the Interdisciplinary Forum Religion of the University of Erfurt, vol. 13. Aschendorff: Münster, 2018, pp. 197–214.
  • Marie Kahle (1893–1948): Bonn professor's wife, educator and opponent of the Nazi regime. In: Andrea Stieldorf; Ursula Mättig; Ines nephews (ed.). But suddenly now emancipated, science wants to drive it. Women at the University of Bonn (1818–2018). V&R Unipress: Göttingen, 2018, pp. 137–164.
  • The Condemnation of Democracy as a 'Religion of Polytheism': The Salafist Discourse Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisis (born 1959) . In: Lutz Haarmann; Robert Meyer; Julia Reuschenbach (ed.). From the Bonn to the Berlin republic. Politics as reflected in practical science. Festschrift for Tilman Mayer on his 65th birthday, Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2018, pp. 113–126.
  • Paul Kahle (1875–1964): theologian and orientalist in the spokes of the Nazi dictatorship. In: Harald Meyer; Christine Schirrmacher; Klaus Vollmer (ed.) The Bonn Orient and Asian Studies in the 20th Century: Representatives and Milestones, Gossenberg, 2018, pp. 85–116.
  • The role of women in Islamism. In: Dossier Islamism. Federal Agency for Political Education, May 4, 2018 ( PDF ).
  • Dealing with IS returnees: new territory for our society and its institutions. In: Dossier Islamism. Federal Agency for Political Education, May 4, 2018 ( PDF ).
  • "Mr! Protect us from the punishment of hellfire ”(Sura 2,201): Judgment and Hell in the context of the Koran, Islamic theology and Salafism. In: Konrad Paul Liessmann (ed.). The hell. Cultures of the unbearable. Philosophicum Lech, Vol. 22. Paul Zsolnay Verlag: Wien, 2019, pp. 39–63.
  • Leaving Islam. In: Daniel Enstedt; Göran Larsson; Teemu T. Mantsinen (ed.). Handbook of Leaving Religion. Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion. EJ Brill: Leiden, 2020, pp. 81-95.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar Online . Retrieved May 20, 2016.
  2. ↑ Christine Schirrmacher: Was the true gospel of Christ found? .
  3. ↑ Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern languages at the University of Bonn .
  4. ↑ Christine Schirrmacher on the ETF website .
  5. ^ Scientific advisory board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education .
  6. ↑ Christine Schirrmacher appointed to the Board of Trustees of the German Institute for Human Rights (DIMR) , notification from the University of Bonn.
  7. ^ Scientific advisory board of the Association of German Detective Officers .
  8. ↑ See for example Christine Schirrmacher visits Islamic Dialogue Center in Singapore
  9. ↑ July 31, 2008 (PDF; 1 MB). Yale University
  10. ^ Situation of Christians and other religious minorities in North Africa and the Middle East - Catalog of questions of the Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag for the public hearing on May 9, 2012.
  11. ↑ Freedom of religion and the development of democracy - Written answer to the questionnaire of the Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag for the public hearing on December 2, 2015.
  12. ↑ Tom Königs: "The trademark of Europe is religious freedom"
  13. ↑ Christine Schirrmacher. A vague hope is not enough . In: Cicero 11/2016 .
  14. ↑ https://gebende-haende.de/chschmirrmacher.html
  15. ↑ “Islam and Democracy - A Contrast?” Interview with Christine Schirrmacher on the publication of her book of the same name.
personal data
SURNAME Schirrmacher, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar of Islam, author, consultant and professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Loerrach