Muhammad Nafi Chelebi Prize
The Muhammad Nafi Tschelebi Peace Prize (Mohammad Nafi Tschelebi Award) is a prize to promote interreligious dialogue between religions, traditions and cultures, especially between the Abrahamic religions , Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The prize takes its name from Muhammad Nafi Tschelebi , who died in 1933 , a Syrian citizen living in Berlin and founder of the Berlin Islam Institute in 1927. The prize is not endowed and has been awarded every autumn by the Central Islam Archive since the end of the 1990s -Germany awarded to non-Muslims.
aims
The MNT Prize recognizes people who strive for peace by reporting factually about global Islam, presenting intra-Islamic discourses and developments that promote conversations between Jews, Christians and Muslims and in this way contribute to the multiple obstacles in the To reduce the coexistence of people of different religions and origins. In the opinion of the award givers, such obstacles can be politically intended, but they can also be based on a mere ignorance of the other.
The jury
The Muhammad Nafi Tschelebi Peace Prize is awarded by the “Central Institute Islam Archive Germany - Amina Abdullah Foundation” in Soest. According to the statutes, the composition of the jury should reflect the interreligious and intercultural goals of the Peace Prize. Its members in 2014 are: Muhammad Salim Abdullah (Chairman), Fatma Görkem, Asyl Özdemir and Fuad Hartit.
The winners
The prize is awarded in three forms:
- annually to one person in Germany
- every two years to a person living abroad
- since 2009 to an initiative in Germany
People in Germany
- 2015 Peter Antes , Markus Lewe
- 2014 Rabbi Tovia Ben-Chorin , House of One; Laudator Thomas Dreessen
- 2013 Angelika Neuwirth , Head of Corpus Coranicum ; Laudator Tuba Isik
- 2012 Romani Rose , Chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma ; Laudator Wilhelm Solms
- 2011 Walter Homolka , rabbi, rector of the Abraham Geiger College at the University of Potsdam; Laudator Aiman Mazyek
- 2010 Konrad Raiser , former general secretary of the World Council of Churches ; Laudator Hans Ucko
- 2009 Fritz Schramma ; Laudator Manfred Erdenberger
- 2008 Johannes Lähnemann , religious educator, Erlangen-Nuremberg; Laudator Beyza Bilgin, Ankara
- 2007 Christian Troll , religious scholar; Laudator Adel Theodor Khoury , Laer
- 2006 Barbara John , former immigration officer for Berlin; Laudator Yasemin Karakaşoğlu , Bremen
- 2005 Henry G. Brandt , former regional rabbi of Westphalia-Lippe, Augsburg; Laudator Muhammad Salim Abdullah
- 2005 Special Prize: Gerhard Jasper, formerly Wuppertal; Laudator Bernd Neuser
- 2004 Michael Lüders , publicist; Laudator Rupert Neudeck
- 2003 Klaus Lefringhausen , former integration officer for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia; Laudator Matthias Schreiber
- 2002 Annemarie Schimmel , Islamic scholar; Laudator Mohammed Aman Herbert Hobohm , Zentrum Moderner Orient ZMO
- 2001 Rolf Wischnath, Protestant general superintendent of Cottbus ; Laudator Detlef Leissner
- 2000 Donata Kinzelbach , publisher
- 1999 Maria Voetlause, journalist, Osnabrück
- 1998 Karl-Josef Kuschel , religious scholar, collaborator on the “Global Ethic” project, Tübingen; Laudator Fuad Kandil, Karlsruhe
- 1997 Lutz Hoffmann , sociologist and cath. Theologian, emeritus at Bielefeld University since 2000
International personalities
- 2014 Valeria Heuberger , Austrian Academy of Sciences; Laudator Petrus Bsteh
- (2012 not awarded)
- 2010 Donald Reeves, Anglican Pastor, Assoc. from “Soul of Europe”, London; Laudator Paul Oestreicher
- 2008 Thomas Michel SJ , Vatican; Laudator Jan Slomp, Leusden
- 2006 Mitri Raheb , Protestant pastor in Bethlehem; Laudator Manfred Erdenberger
- 2004 Michael Fitzgerald , Archbishop, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue; Laudator Adel Theodor Khoury
- 2002 Michael Benckert (posthumously), Protestant theologian, Zurich
- 2000 Jan Slomp, Protestant pastor, Leusden; Laudator Mohammed Salim Abdullah
- 1998 Petrus Bsteh, cath. Theologian, Vienna; Laudator Mehmet Kilinc
Group price
- 2015 Baden-Württemberg newspaper
- 2011 Interreligious Calendar Project Group "Together: Jews - Christians - Muslims" ; Laudator Hamideh Mohagheghi
- 2010 House of Religions, Hanover; Laudator Johannes Lähnemann
- 2009 Christian-Islamic Working Group Marl ; Laudator Wolf-Dieter Just
notes
- ↑ Muslims under the swastika ( Memento from August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) by Gerhard Höpp
- ↑ Details about the winners of the individual years in the Islam Archive ( Memento from April 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ About your person ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2013 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.
- ↑ From 2011 at intervals of 2 years
- ↑ a b Mechtild Freiin v. Münchhausen: Religious scholar Professor Antes receives peace prize. Leibniz Universität Hannover, press release from November 4, 2015 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on November 4, 2015.
- ↑ ZIIAD press release, November 2014 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (PDF)
- ↑ In honor
- ^ Pastor, leader and founder of the joint advice center for Christian-Islamic encounters between the Evangelical Churches in the Rhineland and Westphalia, died September 17, 2007 at the age of 80. Since 1971 Jasper had started to establish a network for cooperation between Christians and Muslims.
- ^ Deutsche Welle 2002
- ↑ ZIIAD press release, November 2014 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (PDF)
- ↑ The civil war in Syria is the reason why no winners have been identified
- ↑ until November 2009 chairman of the Shura, Islamic religious community in Bremen
- ↑ Annual publication by Luther-Verlag Bielefeld
- ↑ Prize has been awarded since 2009