Islamic Studies

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Islamic studies is since the winter semester 2010/2011 offered study in Germany . It goes back to recommendations of the Science Council from 2010, in which the establishment of a denomination-oriented Islamic theology at German universities was called for.

Differentiation from Islamic Studies

A distinction must be made between Islamic theology and the subject of Islamic studies : while Islamic scholars research Islam independently of their beliefs, Islamic theologians work from a religious perspective. Islamic theology is largely open to knowledge of Islamic studies and includes them in order to argue normatively based on them. However, Islamic studies can also develop theories that question belief itself; Islamic theology is mostly concerned with these apologetically .

history

As the first university to implement the recommendations of the Science Council, the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main started the Islamic Studies course in the 2010/2011 winter semester. The Institute for Studies of the Culture and Religion of Islam , established there in 2009, had already supervised a religious studies sub-course "Islamic Religion" that had theological content. Since 2011, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research has been promoting the establishment of four centers for Islamic theology at the universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Frankfurt am Main / Gießen, Münster / Osnabrück and Tübingen. The first center opened in 2011 was the Center for Islamic Theology in Tübingen. At the Humboldt University , the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology is to offer the bachelor's degree in Islamic theology from 2019 onwards, but only conservative Muslim associations and two independent scholars of the Muslim faith are to be represented on the institute's theology advisory board instead of liberal ones.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wissenschaftsrat: Recommendations of the Wissenschaftsrat for the further development of theologies and religion-related sciences at German universities (PDF; 834 kB), July 8, 2013
  2. ↑ Institute for Studies of the Culture and Religion of Islam: Profile of the Institute as of July 8, 2013
  3. ↑ BMBF: Islamic Theology at German Universities Status: July 8, 2013
  4. ↑ Islamic theology in Berlin: Conservative associations shape the new Islamic degree program at the Humboldt University , Der Tagesspiegel , December 11, 2017