Hamideh Mohagheghi

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Hamideh Mohagheghi (born November 15, 1954 in Tehran ) is a lawyer, Islamic theologian and religious scholar from Iran. She is a co-founder of the Islamic women's network Huda , former chairwoman of the Muslim Academy in Germany and research assistant at the Center for Comparative Theology and Cultural Studies for Islamic Theology at the University of Paderborn .

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After graduating from Asefi High School in Tehran , she studied law at the National University of Iran (today Shahid Beheschti University ) in Tehran until 1976 . In 1977 she immigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany and studied law and religious studies at the University of Hanover . After many years of informal training in Islamic theology , from 1994 to 1997 she took part in the training and further education in Islamic theology of the Initiative for Islamic Studies in Hamburg.

Mohaghegi is known in specialist circles for her extensive lectures on topics of Islam, in particular the position of women in Islam and Islamic life in Western societies.

She was a regular speaker at Protestant Church Days and Catholic Days. Hamideh Mohagheghi is a member of the “Christians and Muslims” working group in the Central Committee of German Catholics and the Board of Trustees of the Christian-Islamic Society . She also gave a lecture on the television program Wort zum Freitag . Mohaghegi was appointed by the then Federal Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maizière as a participant in the second German Islam Conference . On October 4, 2016, she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by Federal President Joachim Gauck .

She is married and has two daughters.

Selected publications

  • Fatima and Zainab: Role models for women on the move - theological foundations of Shi`a for the participation of women in society using the example of Iran. In: Janbernd Oebbecke, Muhammad Sven Kalisch , Emanuel Towfigh (ed.): The position of women in Islamic religious instruction . Documentation of the conference on July 6, 2006 at the University of Münster (= Islam and Law. Vol. 5). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-56352-6 , pp. 87-94.
  • as editor with Daniela Kästle and Martina Kraml: Heilig - Tabu. Christians and Muslims dare to meet (= communicative theology. Vol. 13). Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7867-2784-2 .
  • with Dietrich Steinwede : What the Koran tells us. For children in simple language. Bayerischer Schulbuchverlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7627-0421-8 .
  • with Klaus von Stosch : Modern Approaches to Islam. Plea for a dialogical theology (= contributions to comparative theology. Vol. 2). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76966-4 .
  • Diversity of religions as an opportunity for peaceful coexistence - from an Islamic perspective. In: Wolfram Weiße, Hans-Martin Gutmann (Ed.): Religious difference as a chance? Positions, controversies, perspectives (= religions in dialogue. 3). Waxmann, Münster et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-8309-2342-8 , pp. 119-130.
  • with Dietrich Steinwede: His are the most beautiful names. Texts of the Koran in simple language. Selected and transferred. Patmos, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-8436-0002-6 .
  • Religion-sensitive school culture from the perspective of Muslim families. In: Gudrun Guttenberger, Harald Schroeter-Wittke (ed.): Religionssensible Schulkultur (= studies on religious education and practical theology. Vol. 4). IKS Garamond, Jena 2011, ISBN 978-3-941854-54-3 , pp. 307-314.
  • Equal Participation of Women in Society - Insights into the Qur'an and historical examples. In: Christine Gerber, Silke Petersen, Wolfram Weisse (eds.): Indescribably feminine? New questions on the gender difference in religions (= theological research on women in Europe. Vol. 26). Lit, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11069-5 , pp. 177-194.
  • Ruth In: Bernhard Dressler , Harald Schroeter-Wittke (Hrsg.): Religious educational commentary on the Bible. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-374-03031-6 , pp. 97-102.
  • "Islam" in Navid Kermani's literary writings. In: Michael Hofmann, Klaus von Stosch (eds.): Islam in the German and Turkish literature (= contributions to comparative theology. Vol. 4). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77133-9 , pp. 259-266.
  • The dialogue of religions. Motor of successful integration and change in society. In: Jürgen Manemann , Werner Schreer (ed.): Religion and Migration Today. Perspectives - positions - projects. (Norbert Trelle, Bishop of Hildesheim, on his 70th birthday) (= sources and studies on history and art in the diocese of Hildesheim. 6). Schnell + Steiner et al., Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2672-9 , pp. 28-38.
  • “We are critics, not opponents”. Thoughts of liberation by Mohammad Mojtahed Schabestari and Hojatolislam Mohsen Kadivar. In: Klaus von Stosch, Muna Tatari (ed.): God and Liberation. Liberation theological concepts in Islam and Christianity (= contributions to comparative theology. Vol. 5). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77317-3 , pp. 77-89.
  • as editor and commentator: Women for Jihad. The manifesto of the IS fighters. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-34832-7 (in Arabic and German).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2012 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.huda.de
  2. ^ Muslim Academy in Germany: Board of Directors
  3. ↑ http://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Berichte/DE/Joachim-Gauck/2016/10/161004-Verdienstorden-Tag-der-deutschen-Einheit.html?nn=2236336 .

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personal data
SURNAME Mohagheghi, Hamideh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian lawyer and Islamic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran