Islamology

The Islamic Studies is an academic scientific discipline whose job a historical-social scientific study of Islam and its civilization is. In contrast to traditional Islamic studies , the discipline of Islamology deals with the social, political and historical realities of the Islamic world, not with the philological sources and religious writings of Islam. It is therefore not a doctrine of religious dogmatics in Islam. Bassam Tibi founded the sociological-historical Islamology in two German-language book trilogies since the 1980s and in a book trilogy (1998–2012) in English. Tibi outlines the history and content of the new discipline in his book Islam's Predicament with Modernity from 2009.

In his German-language book Islamic History and German Islamic Studies: Islamology and the Orientalism Debate (2017, ISBN 978-3-8382-1053-7 ), Tibi takes up Islamology and criticizes German Islamic studies, for which he calls for a paradigm shift.

Individual evidence

↑ An author with a doctorate in Islamic studies, Michael Lüders, defined Islamic studies as oriental studies and stated in Die Zeit of January 6, 1995: “The classical orientalist sees himself primarily as a philologist, he translates the Orient into grammar and lexicography [... ]. Most […] are clearly conservative, that is, philologically oriented ”.
↑ The first Islamological book trilogy by B. Tibi was published in the STW (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft) series of the Suhrkamp Verlag: B. Tibi, Der Islam and the problem of cultural coping with social change. (STW first 1985, 3rd edition 1991); Ders., From the kingdom of God to the nation state. Islam and Pan-Arab Nationalism (STW first 1987, 2nd edition 1991); Ders., The Crisis of Modern Islam. A pre-industrial culture in the scientific-technical age (STW 1991, based on an expanded version of the work published by Tibi in 1981 at CH Beck in Munich). The second Islamological book trilogy is: B. Tibi. The real imam. Islam from Mohammed to the present day (Munich: Piper 1996); Ders., Crusade and Jihad. Islam and the Christian world (Munich: Bertelsmann, 1999); Ders., Invitation to Islamic History (Darmstadt: Primus, 2001).
↑ The English book trilogy consists of: B. Tibi, The Challenge of Fundamentalism. Political Islam and the New World Disorder (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, current edition 2002), Ders., Political Islam, World Politics and Europe. Global Jihad vs. Euro-Islam (current subtitle: From Jihadist to Institutional Islamism ) (London and New York: Routledge, 2008, current 2014); Ders., Islamism and Islam (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012).

[1] An author with a doctorate in Islamic studies, Michael Lüders, defined Islamic studies as oriental studies and stated in Die Zeit of January 6, 1995: “The classical orientalist sees himself primarily as a philologist, he translates the Orient into grammar and lexicography [... ]. Most […] are clearly conservative, that is, philologically oriented ”.

[2] The first Islamological book trilogy by B. Tibi was published in the STW (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft) series of the Suhrkamp Verlag: B. Tibi, Der Islam and the problem of cultural coping with social change. (STW first 1985, 3rd edition 1991); Ders., From the kingdom of God to the nation state. Islam and Pan-Arab Nationalism (STW first 1987, 2nd edition 1991); Ders., The Crisis of Modern Islam. A pre-industrial culture in the scientific-technical age (STW 1991, based on an expanded version of the work published by Tibi in 1981 at CH Beck in Munich). The second Islamological book trilogy is: B. Tibi. The real imam. Islam from Mohammed to the present day (Munich: Piper 1996); Ders., Crusade and Jihad. Islam and the Christian world (Munich: Bertelsmann, 1999); Ders., Invitation to Islamic History (Darmstadt: Primus, 2001).

[3] The English book trilogy consists of: B. Tibi, The Challenge of Fundamentalism. Political Islam and the New World Disorder (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, current edition 2002), Ders., Political Islam, World Politics and Europe. Global Jihad vs. Euro-Islam (current subtitle: From Jihadist to Institutional Islamism ) (London and New York: Routledge, 2008, current 2014); Ders., Islamism and Islam (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012).