Karl Prenner

Karl Prenner (* 1950 ) is an Austrian scholar of religion .

Life

He taught as a professor of Islamic studies with a focus on Koran research at the Institute for Religious Studies at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the Karl-Franzens University in Graz . He is a board member and Vice President of the Austrian Society for Religious Studies (ÖGRW).

His work focuses on Islamic cultural history. Europe and Islam, cultural transfer between Orient and Occident, religion and religiosity in (post) modernity.

Fonts (selection)

Muhammad and Musa. Structural analysis and theological history studies on the Meccan Musa pericopes of the Qur'ān (= studies. Volume 6). Publishing house for Christl.-Islam. Literature, Altenberge 1986, ISBN 3-88733-064-1 (also habilitation thesis, Graz 1985).
with Karl Matthäus Woschitz and Manfred Hutter : The Manichean Urdrama of Light. Studies on Coptic, Central Iranian and Arabic texts . Herder, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-210-24962-8 .
The voice of Allah. Religion and Culture of Islam . Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-222-12914-2 .
as editor with Theresia Heimerl : Macht Religion Kultur. Can the world religions make a contribution to the formation of a world culture? (= Theology in cultural dialogue. Volume 12). Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7022-2578-1 .
as editor with Theresia Heimerl: Culture and Memory. Contributions to the history of religion, culture and theology. Festschrift for Karl Matthäus Woschitz . Pustet, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7917-1980-7 .
with Anton Grabner-Haider and Johann Maier: Cultural History of the Early Middle Ages. From 500 to 1200 AD Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-54006-0 .
as editor with Theresia Heimerl: Transience. Religious studies perspectives and theses on an anthropological constant (= Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. General scientific series. Volume 23). Leykam, Graz 2011, ISBN 978-3-7011-0217-4 .
as editor with Anton Grabner-Haider: Religions and Cultures of the Earth. A manual . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-25049-3 .
with Anton Grabner-Haider and Johann Maier : Cultural History of the Late Middle Ages. From 1200 to 1500 AD Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 3-525-53038-2 .
as editor with Ulrike Bechmann and Erich Renhart : Islam in the cultural memory of the West . Unipress Graz Verlag, Graz 2014, ISBN 978-3-902666-34-5 .
with Anton Grabner-Haider and Klaus Davidowicz : Cultural History of the Early Modern Era. From 1500 to 1800 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 3-525-54026-4 .
with Anton Grabner-Haider and Klaus Davidowicz: Cultural History of the 19th Century . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 3-525-53118-4 .
with Rolf Bergmeier and Anton Grabner-Haider: Politics and Religion in Christianity and Islam. A cultural historical analysis (= series of writings on cultural history . Volume 39). Publishing house Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 3-8300-9075-7 .

personal data
SURNAME	Prenner, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	1950