Fatima Grimm

Fatima Grimm (* July 25, 1934 as Helga Lili Wolff in Munich ; † May 6, 2013 in Hamburg ) was a German translator , author and speaker on the subject of Islam . She gained fame through her commitment as a convert in Germany's Muslim community , for example as a functionary in the German Muslim League Hamburg .

Live and act

Fatima Grimm was born as the daughter of SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS Karl Wolff . On her 26th birthday in 1960, she made her Islamic creed in Ibrahim Gacaoglu's Munich apartment . In 1962 she moved to Pakistan with her then husband Omar Abdul Aziz, a Czech Muslim whom she met in 1958 and married in 1960 . Three years later she returned to Germany with her husband, where she became involved in the Munich community. In 1983 the marriage was divorced by mutual agreement. On April 1, 1984, she married the widowed German convert Abdul Karim Grimm (1933–2009), whose children she had met at an raUmra , and moved to live with him in Hamburg.

For the first time Grimm appeared publicly, then still Fatima Heeren-Sarka , in the minutes of April 11, 1971 of the General Assembly of the Munich Mosque Construction Commission (forerunner of the Islamic Community in Germany ) as "Secretary" in the newly elected "Executive Committee". In the decades that followed, she wrote and translated various books and authored numerous articles, some of which appeared in the journal Al-Islam . In her journalism she mainly devoted herself to topics such as upbringing and the role of women in Islam. The children's magazine Du und der Islam (1978–1984, absorbed into Al-Islam ), which only existed for a short time, was supervised by her. She was also responsible for Al-Islam for several years .

In addition, she worked on a German translation of the Koran in a group of mostly women, including Halima Krausen and Eva-Maria El-Shabassy . It was originally conceived as a translation of the English translation of the Koran by Abdullah Yusuf Ali . The translation contains detailed comments by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Muhammad Asad , al-Qurtubī , Sayyid Qutb , Daryābādī, Ibn Kathīr , Mawdūdī , al-Suyūṭī and Abdul Hameed Siddiqi , which were taken directly and translated; comments from Sufis or Shiites have been omitted . It was published over 16 years in 24 issues by Al-Islam and finally in five volumes by Abdel-Halim Khafagy in SKD Bavaria Verlag . Along with Muhammad Rassoul 's translation, Grimm's translation is one of the two Koran translations recommended by the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD) in its 1999 curriculum for Islamic religious instruction . In the guideline “ORIENTATION” of the Institute for Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin , Grimm's translation is described as strongly traditionalistic and interpretive as well as “ oriented towards the purposes of mission ”; for the course it is “not recommended”. On the ZMD's islam.de website, Hamida Behr names Grimm's translation of the Koran along with contemporary comments as her “probably greatest legacy”. It is the first translation of the Koran into German developed and published jointly by Sunnis and Shiites. “Islamic scholars have not yet dealt with their work”, but their comment can be found “in the new departments for Islamic theology”.

A few weeks before his death in 1984, Grimm's father Karl Wolff made the Islamic creed; at the grave, the daughter said the funeral prayer in the presence of representatives of the Islamic Center Munich (IZM) .

Since April 1999 at the latest, Grimm was an honorary member of the ZMD's advisory board. In addition, she sat (with her husband Abdul Karim) on the board of the German Muslim League eV Hamburg, was a member of the Liberal-Islamic Association and was involved in the Islamic Center Hamburg ; There was a small mosque of their own on their property in Hamburg. With her husband Abdul Karim she was present several times at meetings of German-speaking Muslims . In the summer of 2002 Grimm accompanied Nadeem Elyas and other representatives of the ZMD on a tour of the Islamic World League through Germany.

A lecture first given by Grimm in 1975 received special attention, which was published by the IZM as a brochure under the title The Upbringing of Our Children in 1995 and has been disseminated again and again since then (for example at the Berlin Mevlana Mosque book fair in 2007). This “most controversial publication by Fatima Grimm” because of the family portrait expressed in it using terms such as jihad and dār al-Harb , portrays the growing up of children into a “mass of half-educated nationalists , communists or humanists ” as a horror picture in the absence of an Islamic upbringing . Another part of upbringing is to teach children who are open to it from the age of 15 on the concept of jihad as a defense of the faith: “This includes that we as mothers are not cowardly and anxious to protect our sons from any danger. To [...] Rather, we should give them always keep in mind what it is a great honor for every Muslim, fighting for the cause of Islam with the weapon in his hand. "The Constitutional Protection Report 2010 of the State Office for State Protection Baden-Wuerttemberg is found that an IZM publication written by Grimm advocates the reintroduction of the Hadd penalties . In a brochure published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in 2003, it is stated that Grimm has "meanwhile distanced himself from her work". In a conversation conducted with Nadeem Elyas in 2005 and published by the Institute for Islamic Issues in 2006 , the latter said that Grimm had taken a position and said that the text was 30 years old, that by no means did she mean the armed struggle and that she meant it for the Definitely do not advocate the present.

Khadija Katja Wöhler-Khalfallah quotes Grimm from the work written by Aisha B. Lemu on Woman and Family Life in Islam as an example of fundamentalist , anti-secular and jihad-friendly polemics: “(...) This effort (jihad) can be in the hour of Emergency, both with the sword and with the pen, with the shovel as with the scalpel or even with the sewing machine or the wooden spoon. Jihad is a fight against all forces that attack Islam from within and without. Whether these attacks are aimed at mocking Islam, weakening its traditions and customs, or undermining its political power, they must be taken very seriously because they seek to destroy the roots of our heritage. "

In a research report by Ralph Ghadban , Grimm's book Islam through the eyes of a woman is named as one of the most popular titles by Muslim authors in Germany. In this context Ghadban names " Hofmann , von Denffer and Grimm" as belonging to the "current of the Muslim Brotherhood ", "whereby von Denffer and Grimm belonged to their most radical wing".

Grimm was the mother of a son and a daughter who died early from his first marriage, as well as three stepchildren from his second marriage. She died on the evening of May 6, 2013 after a long, serious illness in Hamburg.

Publications

• Sayyid Abū-l-Aʿlā Maududī : Weltanschauung and life in Islam (= Herder library. Volume 397). Translated from English by Fatima Heeren-Sarka. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1971. The Islamic Foundation , Leicester 1978. ISBN 0-86037-029-1 or ISBN 0-86037-028-3 .
• Family life in Islam. Speech delivered at the International Islamic Conference, London, on April 8, 1976. Mohammad Yusuf Khan, Lahore 1976. Translation in Danish: Islamisk familieliv. ISBN 87-87728-74-5 .
• with Aisha B. Lemu: Woman in Islam. Papers delivered at the International Islamic Conference, held in London from 3rd to 12th April, 1976. Islamic Council of Europe , Leicester 1976. ISBN 0-86037-004-6 . New edition Islamic Foundation, Markfield 2007. ISBN 978-0-86037-004-8
• Al-Islam (Ed.): Kurshid Ahmad : Principles of Islamic Education. (= Series of publications of the Islamic Center Munich. No. 3). Information brochure of the Islamic Center Munich. Edited in collaboration with The Islamic Foundation. Translated from English by Fatima Heeren. Islamisches Zentrum München, Munich 1976. 4th edition 1997 and 2005 respectively published there by the Islamic Community in Germany, ISBN 978-3-89263-003-6 and ISBN 3-89263-003-8 .
• with Aisha B. Lemu: Kvinden i islams verden. Scientific Research House, Kuwait and Islamisk Ungdomsforbund, Valby 1978. ISBN 87-980656-4-5 .
• Sound foundations of Muslim families at the most fundamental social unit of the Islamic community. MSA of US and Canada, Bloomington, Indiana 1978.
• Zakat. (= Series of publications of the Islamic Center Munich. No. 6). In cooperation with The Muslim Students Association of The United States & Canada, Islamic Correspondence Course and the Waterval Islamic Institute. Translated from English by Fatima Heeren. Islamic Center Munich, Munich 1978.
• Ahmad Kamil H. Darwish: What is Islam? In: Collaboration with Darqawi Siddigyyah Zawiah of Tanger, Morocco. Translated from English by Fatima Heeren. Islamisches Zentrum München, Munich 1978. New edition there, 1997. ISBN 3-89263-000-3 .
• Muhammad Manazir Ahsan: Islam, Faith and Life. Translated by Ahmad von Denffer and Fatima Heeren-Sarka. Islamic Foundation, Leicester 1978. ISBN 0-86037-034-8 .
• Fasting. (= Series of publications of the Islamic Center Munich. No. 5). Edited by the Islamic Center Munich in cooperation with The Muslim Students Association of the United States & Canada. Translated from English by Fatima Heeren. Islamic Center Munich, Munich 1978 (new edition 1982).
• Muhammad. (= Series of publications of the Islamic Center Munich. No. 7). In cooperation with The Muslim Students of the United States & Canada. Translated from English by Fatima Heeren. Islamic Center Munich, Munich 1978.
• Said Ramadan : Islamic Law. Theory and practice. Translated by Fatima Heeren. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1980. ISBN 3-447-02078-4 .
• Taha Jabir Al-Alwani : Draft of an alternative cultural plan. Translated by Fatima Grimm and Hanna Niemann. Muslim Student Association in Germany , Marburg 1992. ISBN 3-932399-12-9 .
• Taha J. al Alwani and Imad al Din Khalil: The Koran and the Sunnah. The time-space factor. Translated by Fatima Grimm and Maryam Reissmann. International Institute of Islamic Thought , Herndon, Virginia 1994 ( ISBN 1-56564-053-5 ) and Muslim Student Association in Germany, Marburg 1994 ( ISBN 3-932399-11-0 ).
• Sayyid Abu-l-A'la Maududi: Worldview and Life in Islam. (= Series of publications of the Islamic Center Munich. No. 24). Translated from English by Fatima Heeren-Sarka. Islamisches Zentrum München, Munich (also International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations, Kuwait) 1994. ISBN 3-89263-024-0 .
• Inner peace. (= Lectures on Islam. No. 2). 3. Edition. Islamic Center Munich, Munich 1995. ISBN 3-89263-602-8 .
• Information center Islamic Center Munich (ed.): The education of our children. (= Lectures on Islam. No. 3). Editor: Tilmann Schaible . Islamic Center Munich, Munich 1995. ISBN 3-89263-603-6 . 2nd edition revised by Tilmann Schaible. Dâr-us-Salâm, Garching near Munich 2000. ISBN 3-932129-63-6 .
• Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi: Islamic way of life. (= Series of publications of the Islamic Center Munich. No. 17). German by Ayisha Niazi and Fatima Heeren. Islamisches Zentrum München, Munich (also International Islamic Federation of Student Organization, Kuwait) 1996. ISBN 3-89263-017-8 .
• Said Ramadan: Islamic Law. Theory and practice. Translated by Fatima Heeren. 2nd edition, published by the Muslim Student Association in Germany eV in cooperation with the Islamic Council in Germany eV and edited by Amena El-Zayat. Muslim Student Association in Germany, Marburg 1996. ISBN 3-932399-00-5 .
• with others: Tarǧamat maʿāni ʾl-Qurʾān al-karīm ila ʾl-luġa al-almānīya = The meaning of the Koran. 5 volumes. SKD Bavaria, Munich 1996–1997. ISBN 3-926575-40-9 .
• with Aisha B. Lemu: Woman and Family Life in Islam. (= Series of publications of the Islamic Center Munich. No. 20); translated by Abdullah Hammam. 3. Edition. Islamic Center Munich, Munich 1999. ISBN 3-89263-020-8 .
• Tilmann Schaible (Eds.): Fatima Grimm and Timann Schaible: How do I do prayer in Islam? (= Elementary knowledge of Islam. No. 2). Dâr-us-Salâm, Garching near Munich 2000. ISBN 3-932129-02-4 .
• Islam through the eyes of a woman. 2nd, revised edition. SKD-Bavaria-Verlag, Munich 2002. ISBN 3-926575-92-1 .
• Selection from the Sea of ​​Mercy. The teachings of the Grand Sheikh of our Master Sheikh 'Abdullah ad-Daghestânî an-Naqshbandî. Explained by his representative and successor Nazim al-Qubrusi . Compiled, translated and edited by Hassan P. Dyck and Fatima Heeren. 2nd edition, revised by Abd al-Hafidh Wentzel. Warda-Publ., Hellenthal 2005. ISBN 978-3-939191-03-2 or ISBN 3-939191-03-5 .
• Muḥammad Aḥmad Rassoul (Ed.): Inner Peace. 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Islamic Library, Cologne 2006. ISBN 3-8217-0075-0 .
• Muhammet Mertek (Red.): Short suras from the Koran & some selected prayers. translated by Fatima Grimm. Fontäne-Verlag, Offenbach am Main 2009. ISBN 978-3-935521-50-5 .
• Ali Ünal (Ed.): The Koran and its translation. With comment and notes. translated by Fatima Grimm and Wilhelm Willeke. Fontäne-Verlag, Offenbach am Main 2009. ISBN 978-3-935521-45-1 or ISBN 978-3-935521-46-8 .
• as editor: cloth feeling. Stories of life with and without a headscarf. Narrabila Verlag, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-943136-06-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Fatima Grimm in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Stefan Meining : A mosque in Germany. Nazis, Secret Services, and the Rise of Political Islam in the West. Beck Verlag, Munich 2011, p. 151.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Stefan Meining: A mosque in Germany. Nazis, Secret Services, and the Rise of Political Islam in the West. Beck Verlag, Munich 2011, p. 152.
3. ↑ A look back at an eventful life: IZ in conversation with Fatima Grimm. In: Islamische Zeitung , July 27, 2010 ( online ( memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ). 
4. ↑ ZDB -ID 1245133-2
5. ↑ ^{a b} Curriculum vitae of Fatima Grimm from the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, November 24, 2013 ( online ).
6. ↑ ^{a b} Fatima Grimm: The complete translation of the whole Quran! Announcement on the former website of the SKD Bavaria Verlag ( online ( memento from September 30, 2002 in the Internet Archive )).
7. ↑ Ahmad von Denffer (Islamisches Zentrum München): History of the Translation of the Meanings of the Qur'an in Germany up to the Year 2000. A Bibliographic Survey , p. 34 ( PDF ); Denffer also refers to Ismet Binark and Halit Eren: World Bibliography of translations of the meanings of the Holy Qur'an: printed translations 1515-1980. Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture, Istanbul 1986, no.860/71.
8. ↑ Murad Wilfried Hofmann : German Translations of the Holy Qur'ān. In: Islamic Studies. Vol. 41, No. 1. Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad , Spring 2002, p. 93.
9. ^ Irka-Christin Mohr: Islamic religious instruction in Europe. A comparison of teaching texts as instruments of Muslim self-assessment. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2006, pp. 68-69.
10. ^ Johann Büssow , Stefan Rosiny and Christian Saßmannshausen: ORIENTATION: A guide for (future) Islamic scholars at the Free University of Berlin. 7th edition, summer 2013, Berlin, p. 25 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ). 
11. ↑ Fatima Grimm: Your life comments on the Koran - Hamida Behr's obituary. islam.de, May 13, 2013 ( online ).
12. ^ Committees and members of the ZMD. Status: 1999 ( online ).
13. ↑ ^{a b c} Liberal-Islamischer Bund eV: On the death of our member Fatima Grimm , May 7, 2013 ( online ).
14. ↑ Sulaiman Wilms: Veteran of Islam in Germany: Fatima Grimm has died. In: Islamische Zeitung , May 7, 2013 ( online ( memento of the original from August 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ). 
15. ^ Johannes Kandel: Organized Muslims in Germany between integration and demarcation. In: Islamism. Discussion of a complex phenomenon. Study series "In Focus". Senate Department for the Interior, Department for the Protection of the Constitution, Berlin 2005, p. 73f ( PDF ( Memento of the original dated January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. ). 
16. ^ ZDK Society for Democratic Culture gGmbH; Project area Center for Democratic Culture “Community Coaching ” (Eds.): Claudia Dantschke and Claudia Luzar: Aspects of the endangerment of democracy in Berlin-Mitte and possibilities of intervention. A municipal analysis in the Berlin district of Mitte. Follow-up study to the first study in 2004. Series of publications by the Center for Democratic Culture. ZDK Society Democratic Culture gGmbH, Berlin 2007, p. 35 ( PDF ).
17. ↑ So the assessment of Stefan Meining in (ders.): A mosque in Germany. Nazis, Secret Services, and the Rise of Political Islam in the West. Beck Verlag, Munich 2011, pp. 153f. Examples of critical take up of this text are Cornelia Filter: Islamism: The converts ... and who is behind it. In: Emma , July 1, 2002 ( online ); Ahmet Arpad: Islamism in Germany - Role of Women in German, Islamic Society. Presentation for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . Stuttgart, November 9, 2002 and Munich, February 14, 2004 ( PDF ); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Ed.): Johannes Kandel: “Better blue-eyed than blind?” Comments on the “dialogue” with Islam. (= Islam and society. No. 2). Berlin Academy Talks / Intercultural Dialogue. Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Political Academy, Berlin 2003, p. 13f ( PDF ); Hildegard Becker: "Pictures in the mind". Imaginations among Muslims and in their organizations. Presentation to the Migration Working Group in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Bonn July 2, 2003 ( online ( memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ); Forced marriage and honor killings of migrant women in Germany. Report from the conference "Leitkultur Humanism and Enlightenment" 2005 in Cologne. Website of the International Association of Non-Denominational and Atheists ( online ); Udo Wolter: You think German. The world of German converts to Islam and the urge for the absolute. In: Jungle World No. 38, September 20, 2007 ( online ); Herbert L. Müller: From Islamism to Jihadism. Attempted access. In: Enlightenment and Criticism , special issue 13/2007, pp. 49–51, 55 ( PDF ); Ursula Spuler-Stegemann : The 101 Most Important Questions - Islam. (= Beck series. 7005). 2nd, revised edition. Beck, Munich 2009, p. 126f; see also Jan Bielicki: Expert Interview. “The ban is important to send a signal” Interview with Ursula Spuler-Stegemann. In: Süddeutsche.de , May 11, 2010 ( online ). 
18. ↑ Fatima Grimm: The education of our children. Munich 1995, p. 2, quoted by Herbert L. Müller: From Islamism to Jihadism. Attempted access. In: Enlightenment and Criticism , special issue 13/2007, p. 49. ( PDF ).
19. ↑ Fatima Grimm: The education of our children. Munich 1995, p. 19, quoted by Herbert L. Müller: From Islamism to Jihadism. Attempted access. In: Enlightenment and Criticism , special issue 13/2007, p. 55. ( PDF ). The entire context of the quotation was available on the Internet on the Islamic website enfal.de ; now only archived under [1] . Ursula Spuler-Stegemann also quotes in a very similar way : The 101 most important questions - Islam (= Beck's series. 7005). 2nd, revised edition. Beck, Munich 2009, p. 127 and Stefan Meining: A mosque in Germany. Nazis, Secret Services, and the Rise of Political Islam in the West. Beck Verlag, Munich 2011, pp. 153f.
20. ↑ Interior Ministry Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Baden-Württemberg 2010. Stuttgart 2011, p. 70 ( urn : nbn: de: bsz: boa-ae12b5ae-8df7-4c7e-ace2-55e3b23d423f5 ). Compare Herbert Landolin Müller: Beyond the veil and headscarf: Islamist image of man and the role of women as a challenge to a free society? In: Armin Pfahl-Traughber , Monika Rose-Stahl: Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the School for the Protection of the Constitution and for Andreas Hübsch. (= Contributions to internal security. 31). Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration, Department of Public Safety, Brühl / Rhineland 2007, p. 384f ( PDF ( Memento of the original dated January 2, 2014 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 note. ), here this fact is stated in Grimm's wife and family life written with Aisha B. Lemu in a passage about fornication . See also Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Baden-Württemberg 2007. Stuttgart 2008, p. 51 ( urn : nbn: de: bsz: boa-bc13d0d2-4148-4ac7-84cb-97e6f607b63d5 ); Interior Ministry Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Baden-Württemberg 2006. Stuttgart 2007, p. 50 ( urn : nbn: de: bsz: boa-a9a74dc1-7827-4e1a-8f41-ee0a08120e3a6 ) and Interior Ministry Baden-Württemberg (ed. ): Report on the Protection of the Constitution Baden-Württemberg 2009. Stuttgart 2010, p. 67 ( urn : nbn: de: bsz: boa-40f40a41-4e66-4d41-a543-883d54f752588 ). 
21. ↑ Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (ed.): Johannes Kandel: “Lieber naiväugig als blind?” Comments on the “Dialogue” with Islam (= Islam and society. No. 2). Berlin Academy Talks / Intercultural Dialogue. Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Political Academy, Berlin 2003, p. 14 ( PDF )
22. ↑ Judith Wanner (Tübingen): "The true and the beautiful". In conversation with Dr. Nadeem Elyas, honorary member of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD). Institute for Islamic Issues 2006, p. 1f ( PDF ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) . 
23. ↑ Fatima Grimm in: The Islamic Community in Germany IGD (Hrsg.): Aisha B. Lemu and Fatima Grimm: Woman and Family Life in Islam. Series of publications by the Islamic Center in Munich, 2005, p. 43, quoted in Khadija Katja Wöhler-Khalfallah: Islamic Fundamentalism. From the original community to the German Islam Conference. Schiler, Berlin 2009, p. 227. Compare Herbert L. Müller: From Islamism to Jihadism. Attempted access. In: Enlightenment and Criticism , special issue 13/2007, p. 50f ( PDF ) and Herbert Landolin Müller: Beyond the veil and headscarf: Islamist image of man and the role of women as a challenge to a liberal society? In: Armin Pfahl-Traughber and Monika Rose-Stahl: Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the School for the Protection of the Constitution and for Andreas Hübsch. (= Contributions to internal security. 31). Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration, Department of Public Safety, Brühl / Rhineland 2007, p. 368 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 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 note. ). 
24. ↑ Ralph Ghadban: Which Islam is represented in Europe? An investigation based on the publicly distributed material. The example of Germany. Berlin, June 2007, pp. 27–28, quotations from p. 28 ( PDF ).
25. ↑ Recommended reading Islam. Retrieved September 2, 2014 .