Gerd-Rüdiger Puin
Gerd-Rüdiger Puin (* 1940 in Königsberg ) is a German Islamic scholar and Yemen expert at Saarland University .
Life
Puin studied Islamic studies , economic geography and economic policy in Bonn from 1962 to 1969 and was the first non-Muslim to attend the university in Riyadh for seven months in 1964/65 . He received his doctorate and then worked at the German Orient Institute in Hamburg before coming to Saarland University in 1972. From 1981 to 1984 he headed the project “Restoring and cataloging Arabic manuscripts” in Sana'a , in which he worked on the oldest known fragments of the Koran, which were found during construction work on the Great Mosque of Sana'a in 1972. This made him a recognized authority on the history of the Koran text in Western Islamic studies . On the basis of philological analyzes, he put forward the thesis that the hard-to-understand passages from the Koran - he estimates them to be 20% of the text - must be read taking into account the influence of the Aramaic language at the time the Koran was written. This approach was systematically developed by Christoph Luxenberg .
With his research approach, Puin is a representative of the " Saarbrücker Schule ", which in turn is part of the revisionist school of Islamic studies .
Fonts
- The Dīwān of ʿUmar ibn al-Ḫaṭṭāb. A contribution to the early Islamic administrative history. Dissertation at the University of Bonn 1970, DNB 482444347 .
- Gerd-Rüdiger Puin: Observations on Early Qur'an Manuscripts in San'a ' . In: Stefan Wild (Ed.): The Qur'an as Text . Brill, Leiden 1996, ISSN 0169-8729 .
- Hans-Caspar Graf von Bothmer, Karl-Heinz Ohlig and Gerd-Rüdiger Puin: New ways of researching the Koran . In: magazine research . University of Saarland. ISSN 0937-7301 , No. 1/1999, pp. 33-46
- Karl-Heinz Ohlig and Gerd R. Puin (eds.): The dark beginnings. New Research on the Origin and Early History of Islam . Hans Schiler Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89930-128-5 .
Web links
- Islamic scholar from Saarbrücken: "About a fifth of the Koran has to be read again!"
- To Puin and the research project in Sanaa
- Islam in the Caucasus ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- http://www.uni-saarland.de/verwalt/presse/campus/1999/3/20-UdS_neues_zentrum.html
- Saarbrücker Islamic scholar: "Islam is more than a religion" , Saarbrücker Zeitung, 5th October 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saarbrücker Islamic scholar: "About a fifth of the Koran has to be read again!" Retrieved November 3, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Puin, Gerd-Rüdiger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German scholar of Islam |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |