Gernot Rotter

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Gernot Rotter (born May 14, 1941 in Troppau ; † June 9, 2010 in Stade ) was a German orientalist , Islamic scholar , journalist and politician.

Life

Rotter was born the son of the journalist Walter Rotter (1905–1978), who was an editor at Main-Echo . His brother is the medieval historian Ekkehart Rotter, with whom he wrote the book Venus, Maria, Fatima in 1999 . Wie die Lust zum Teufel wrote, which deals with the sexuality and misogyny of Islamic and Christian traditions.

Gernot Rotter received his doctorate from the University of Bonn on the position of the negro in Islamic-Arab society up to the 16th century. Century . His teacher in Bonn was Gustav Mensching . The habilitation took place in 1977 at the University of Tübingen with a thesis on the Umayyads . His teacher in Tübingen was Josef van Ess .

1980 to 1984 he was director of the German Orient Institute in Beirut . He then became professor for contemporary oriental science at the oriental seminar at the University of Hamburg . In 2005 he retired. Rotter published the library of Arabic classics . Rotter was a sharp critic of Gerhard Konzelmann , whom he accused of being a plagiarist.

politics

From 1987 to 1991 he was a member of the Greens in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament . In 1988 he applied to the state parliament to remove the death penalty from the text of the state constitution. After the Gulf War of 1991, he criticized the German media because, in his opinion, they were spreading a distorted image of Islam. In 2001, Rotter was one of the first to sign the Berlin appeal.

Rotter was a member of the Council for Migration . Rotter described himself as an atheist . He was of the opinion that theology was not a science and had no place in the university .

Works

  • The position of the negro in the Islamic-Arab society up to the XVI. Century. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn 1967.
  • The Umayyads and the Second Civil War (680–692). German Oriental Society. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1982.
  • Allah's plagiarist. The journalistic forays of Middle East expert Gerhard Konzelmann . Palmyra Verlag , Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-9802298-4-X .
  • The life of the prophet , Tübingen 2004.
  • Middle East Lexicon. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict from AZ . Palmyra Verlag , Heidelberg 2006

Articles and essays

  • The cruel logic of martyrdom. When fighting Islamist terror, its socio-political causes must not be lost sight of. In: The time. September 16, 2001.
  • The caliphs' guilty conscience . Kemalism, Nasserism, Baath Party: Islam separates religion and state differently than the West. In: The time. No. 41, 2001.
  • Good man Mohammed . The hysteria of the Islamist mob against a few critical caricatures is terrifying. In: taz. February 7, 2006.

Translations from Arabic

  • Muslim islands off East Africa. A 19th century Arabic Comoros chronicle. (= Beirut texts and studies. Volume 18). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1976.
  • Usama ibn Munqidh: A life fighting crusader armies. Horst Erdmann Verlag, Tübingen 1978.
  • Al Mas'ûdî : To the limits of the earth. Excerpts from the “ Book of Gold Panning , transferred and edited. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-442-08775-9 .
  • Abu al-Faraj : And the caliph gave him plenty of presents . Excerpts from the book of songs . From the Arab. transferred and edited. Edition Erdmann, Lenningen 2004, ISBN 3-86503-015-7 .

As editor

  • The worlds of Islam. Twenty-nine suggestions for understanding the unfamiliar , Fischer: Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3596114802 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Patient paper. Death penalty in the state constitution. In: time online. April 22, 1988.
  2. Berlin appeal. Politicians, scientists and artists condemn the war in Afghanistan. Friday November 2, 2001
  3. ^ Albrecht Metzger: religious instruction in Hamburg. An academy of world religions. Qantara.de, 2006.