Muhammad Salim Abdullah

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Muhammad Salim Abdullah (* 1931 in Bad Salzuflen ; † October 26, 2016 ) was a German-Bosnian journalist and senior director of the central institute Islam-Archiv-Deutschland , founded in Berlin in 1927 , on whose initiative the Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in Berlin in 1986 . He was a German as well as a Bosnian-Herzegovinian citizen.

Life

Abdullah was a Muslim , he worked as a journalist and specialist consultant for Islam in the interreligious field. Among other things, he contributed to the development of the curriculum for Islamic religious instruction in North Rhine-Westphalia and was jointly responsible for the theological training of Turkish teachers / moderators at the North Rhine-Westphalian State Institute for Schools and Further Education. He was also an employee of Deutsche Welle (Islam division) and editor-in-chief of the “Muslim Review”, the “Islam Echo” news service and the historical study series “ZeitZeichen”.

Abdullah was a co-founder of the Christian Islamic Society in 1982 . On the occasion of his 75th birthday, a working biography was published under the title “Bridge Builders - Genesis of the Dialogue of the Abraham Serbs in Germany”.

Abdullah was a member of the Islamic World Congress , for many years a member of the Executive Council of the Congress, represented the Congress at the United Nations and most recently was one of its Vice-Presidents.

Together with Adel Theodor Khoury , he was the editor of a translation of the Koran into German , which is used today for citation in German publications by Saudi Arabian institutions; in Iran this translation of the Koran received an award in 2009.

Although controversial in certain Islamic organizations in the Federal Republic, Muhammad Salim Abdullah could for a long time be regarded as one of the leading representatives of Islam in Germany, both in terms of commitment and public perception. Two assassinations were carried out on him during his tenure in the World Islamic Congress. After a death threat from the Turkish extremist Metin Kaplan , his family was under police protection for years.

Publications

  • Jesus - life, mission and death. Edited by the Ahmadiyya Mission of Islam. Hamburg 1960. (32 pages.)
  • The Presence of Islam in the Federal Republic of Germany , CIBEDO Documentation No. 1. Frankfurt am Main 1978.
  • Introduction to Islam. Evangelical Academy Haus Ortlohn. Iserlohn, 2nd edition 1979.
  • Why Koran schools? CIBEDO Documentation No. 3. Frankfurt am Main 1979.
  • The Nurdschuluk Movement . CIBEDO Texts No. 2. Frankfurt am Main 1980.
  • Three Muslim umbrella organizations in the Federal Republic of Germany . CIBEDO Texts No. 6. Frankfurt am Main 1980.
  • The Presence of Islam in the Federal Republic of Germany II . CIBEDO Documentation No. 9. Frankfurt am Main 1980. (Together with Franz GIERINGER.)
  • History of Islam in Germany . (Series: Islam and Western World Vol. 5.) Graz-Vienna-Cologne 1981. ISBN 3-222-11352-1
  • Crescent under the Prussian eagle. The history of the Islamic community in Prussia (1731–1934) . Altenberge 1984.
  • (with Adel Theodor Khoury) Mohammed for Christians. A challenge . Freiburg 1984.
  • Islam - for talking to Christians . Altenberge 1984.
  • ... And gave them his king's word. Berlin - Prussia - Federal Republic. An outline of the history of the Islamic minority in Germany . Altenberge 1987
  • What does Islam want in Germany? Gütersloh 1993.
  • Jochen Klepper is a “real” source , in: Moslemische Revue 1994, 1, pp. 12-16.
  • Muslim identity and ways to talk . Düsseldorf 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The incorrect spelling Mohammed is occasionally found . Abdullah has always written his first name in his works since 1960 as Muhammad .
  2. ↑ MS Abdullah, History of Islam in Germany , Graz 1981, p. 6 (short biography); MS Abdullah and Adel Theodor Khoury: Mohammed for Christians. A challenge , Freiburg 1984, p. 2 (short biography).
  3. ↑ Tarek Bae: Muhammad Salim Abdullah deceased: Islam in Germany loses a pioneer. In: Islamic Newspaper . October 27, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Iran honors the German Koran . KNA article on the Nordwest-Zeitung website , February 25, 2009, accessed October 28, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Abdullah, Muhammad Salim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abdullah, Mohammad Salim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Muslim, journalist, specialist in the interreligious field
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Salzuflen
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 2016