Enes Karić

Enes Karić

Enes Karić (born May 16, 1958 in Travnik ) is a Bosnian Islamic scholar , university professor and writer.

Professional background

Enes Karić studied Islamic studies, politics and philosophy at the University of Sarajevo . In 1981 he was elected assistant in the Koran Hermeneutics department at the Faculty of Islamic Studies , where he began teaching in 1986 and was appointed lecturer in 1989. In 1986 he made his master's degree in philosophy (subject: connection between Greek and Islamic philosophy in the encyclopedia of Iḫwān aṣ-ṣafāʾ ). At the University of Belgrade he received his doctorate in 1989 on the subject of Hermeneutički problemi prevođenja Kur'ana na srpskohrvatski jezik) in the translation of the Koran into the Serbo-Croatian language . In 1991 he was appointed associate professor in the subject Koran exegese ( Tafsīr ) at the University of Sarajevo, where in 1999 he was also appointed professor for Koran studies and the history of the interpretation of the Koran. After the Bosnian War , he worked from 1994 to 1996 as Minister for Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Several times he was at al-Azhar University in Cairo (Egypt) to specialize, as well as at Yale University (USA) and the University of Oxford (England). In 2002 he spent a summer semester as a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA). In October 2003 he was elected dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies and held this position until October 2007. In the academic year 2002/2003 he taught the subject of Islamic Culture at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) . In the 2008/09 winter semester he took on a visiting professorship for Islamic and Jewish Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). In 2009 he entered the election of the Grand Mufti (Reisul-ulema) of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the most important candidate against the then incumbent Mustafa Cerić . Currently, Dr. Karić at the University of Sarajevo as a full professor, where he works in his specialty, the history and methodology of Koran exegesis.

Act

Enes Karić participated in numerous symposia on philosophy, hermeneutic research, the history of the interpretation of holy scriptures (especially the Koran), globalization and various other topics; including in Tunis (1997), Paris (1997), Leiden (1998), Riyadh (2001), Cambridge (1997), Tokyo (1999), Graz (2000) etc. At the world exhibition EXPO 2000 in Hanover, he was part of the Lecture series Discourse of World Religions a lecture entitled Philosophical Dialogue of Religions instead of Clash of Cultures in the Process of Globalization: An attempt at a synthesis from an Islamic point of view . He was invited several times to give lectures by the Institute for Religious Studies at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz (KFU). Karićs study the historical and civilizational importance of the mystical interpretation of the Koran (The Significance of Sufism in the History of Islamic Civilization: Its place and value in the universal and Perennial Process of Spiritual Inquiry) was in the program of UNESCO was added, and in particular, different Publications devoted to aspects of Islamic culture appear ( The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture ), edited by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu . Since 1990 Enes Karić has been a council member of the Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation founded by Ahmed Zaki Yamani in London , a foundation for the preservation of the Islamic heritage . He is also a council member of the Islamic Studies Journal (Pakistan) and the American Journal of Social Sciences (Herndon, USA). In the summer of 2002 he was elected an active member of the Royal Aal-al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (Jordan). In 1976 and 1977 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Zemzem , and in 1989/1990 he worked in the same position for the magazine Islamska misao (Islamic Thought). He was a member of the editorial board of several other journals, including Zbornik Faketa islamskih nauka (collective publication of the Faculty of Islamic Studies), Muslimanski glas (Muslim voice), Ljiljan (lily), as well as Anali (annals) of the Gazi Husrev Beg library in Sarajevo. From 1984 to the present day he wrote numerous treatises, translations (from Arabic and English), essays, polemics and book presentations, which were published in various magazines in Sarajevo, Zagreb and Belgrade. He also wrote works in Arabic address the Islam in Europe, the meeting of cultures and the Euro-Islamic heritage (published in the daily journal Asharq al-Awsat , the Kuwaiti Al-Mujtama'a Magazine and the Al-Faisal magazines from Riyadh). He also conducted and published dozens of interviews with well-known professors in Islamic studies such as B. Seyyed Hossein Nasr , Annemarie Schimmel , Abdalwahab Bouhdiba, Abdulhakim Murad , as well as with the King of Morocco, Hassan II . In 1995, Enes Karić's translation of the Koran into Bosnian was published. In 2009 he published his first novel Pjesme divljih ptica (Songs of Wild Birds), which has been translated into several languages; a German translation appeared in July 2015. He then published other novels: Jevrejsko groblje (Jewish cemetery, 2011) and Slučajno čovjek (Random Human, 2013).

Positions

In his most important study, Hermeneutics of the Koran , Enes Karić writes of the “openness of the Koran text” and the Islamic-theologically based variety of reading styles of the Koran. From this aspect of Islam he derives the need for a worldwide dialogue between religions and cultures. In an anthology published by the Georges Anawati Foundation , for example, he explains the principle of neighborhood as a dignified interaction between the followers of the world religions. He refers to both Immanuel Kant's “Universal Hospitality” and the positive tradition of the “Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain”, as portrayed by María Rosa Menocal in her work The Ornament of the World . Enes Karic is also not afraid to express himself critically on current issues of Islamic extremism and asks an open question to the Muslim community "What actually offends the Prophet Mohammed: the caricatures or the slaughter of Muslims among themselves and their violence against innocent people" the west "!?"

Works

Selection of Dr. Karić's books published in Bosnian

• Neki aspekti enciklopedije Ihvanus-Safa , (Some aspects of the encyclopedia of Iḫwān aṣ-ṣafāʾ), Master's thesis at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Sarajevo, 1986
• Uvod u tefsirske znanosti , (Introduction to the sciences of Koranic exegesis), Ed. Islamic Theological Faculty, Sarajevo, 1986
• Kako tumačiti Kur'an , (The way in which the Koran is interpreted), expanded edition of the work Hermeneutika Kur'ana (Hermeneutics of the Koran) - Dr. Karić's dissertation, Tugra Publishing House, Sarajevo, 2005, ISBN 9958-660-08-3
• Bosna sjete i zaborava , (The Bosnia of Melancholy and Oblivion), collection of essays, Durieux Verlag, Zagreb, 1988

Chrestomathies, edited and edited by Dr. Karić

• Politička i ideologijska tumačenja Kur'ana i islama , (Political and ideological interpretations of the Koran and Islam), a selection of texts by Western Orientalists, translated from English, together with texts by Islamic authors, Zagreb, 1990
• Kur'an u savremenom dobu , (The Koran in the Modern Age), two volumes of selected texts by Western and Islamic authors, translated from English, German and Arabic, foreword and some translations of the texts from Arabic by Dr. Karić, Svjetlost, Sarajevo, 1991.
• (together with Mujo Demirović): Reis Džemaludin Čaušević: Prosvjetitelj i reformator , (Reis Džemaludin Čaušević: Enlightener and reformer), Ljiljan, Sarajevo, 2002
• Ljudska prava u kontekstu islamsko-zapadne debate , (Human rights in the context of the Islamic-Western debate), most of the texts translated by Dr. Karić, Faculty of Law, Sarajevo, 1996
• Tumačenje Kur'ana u modernom Egiptu , (Koran interpretation in modern Egypt), JJG Jansen, ed. Glasnik VIS-a, 1987
• Šerijatsko pravo u savremenim društvima , (Sharia law in contemporary societies), Selected texts by several authors, translated by Dr. Karić and Prof. Fikret Karčić, Faculty of Law, Sarajevo, 1998
• Islamski fundamentalizam - Šta je to? , (Islamic Fundamentalism - What is it?), Compilation of discussions and articles edited by Dr. Karić and Nusret Čančar, Sarajevo, 1990

Literary works

• Crni tulipan , (The Black Tulip), Tugra Publishing House, Sarajevo, 2008
• The black tulip - travel notes of a Bosnian Mecca pilgrim (German edition), Edition Avicenna, Munich, 2009, ISBN 978-3941913004
• Pjesme divljih ptica , (Songs of Wild Birds), Tugra Publishing House, Sarajevo, 2009.
• Songs of wild birds (German edition) , Verlag Hans Schiler, Berlin, 2015, ISBN 9783899300048
• Jevrejsko groblje , (The Jewish Cemetery), Tugra Publishing House, Sarajevo, 2011
• Minhenska godina , (My Munich Year), Dobra knjiga publishing house, Sarajevo, 2012
• Slučajno čovjek , (Random Human), Tugra Publishing House, Sarajevo, 2013

Articles and posts

• Philosophical dialogue of religions instead of clashes of cultures in the process of globalization , P. Koslowski (ed.), Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich, 2001. (Lectures by several authors in the context of the discourses of world religions , EXPO 2000 Hanover), ISBN 978-3770536344

Web links

• Islamic and Jewish Studies: Defusing International Conflicts through Understanding Religions and Cultures
• Karic: Germany needs a local Islamic culture , November 5, 2008
• The Christian East and the Islamic West , interview for Diwan Magazine, Luxembourg, April 2014
• Short biography (in Bosnian language)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Enes Karic is Allianz visiting professor at LMU , October 15, 2008, accessed on May 4, 2012.
2. ↑ Philosophical dialogue of religions instead of clashes of cultures in the process of globalization: Attempting a synthesis from an Islamic point of view ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , EXPO 2000, Fifth Expo Discourse, Research Institute for Philosophy Hanover  
3. ^ The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture, UNESCO
4. ^ Songs of wild birds , Verlag Hans Schiler, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89930-004-8
5. ↑ Muslim voices from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georges Anawati Foundation (ed.), Verlag Herder, Freiburg, 2013 ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ The Ornament of the World by María Rosa Menocal ( Memento November 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), accessed June 12, 2006
7. ↑ Who actually offends God's prophet Mohammed? (in Bosnian) , Preporod magazine, October 15, 2012