Mustafa Cerić

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Mustafa Cerić

Efendi Mustafa Cerić (born February 5, 1952 in Visoko ) is a Bosnian scholar of Islam and has been president of the Bosniak World Congress since December 29, 2012 and co-founder of the Bosniak Academy of Sciences and Arts. Until November 2012, Cerić was Reisu-l-ulema ( Grand Mufti ) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was replaced in this function on November 15, 2012 by Husein Kavazović , formerly Mufti of Tuzla .

Life

Mustafa Cerić attended the Gazi-Husrev-Beg Medresa in Sarajevo and studied theology and philosophy from 1974 to 1978 as a scholarship holder at the Cairo al-Azhar University . Then he returned to Yugoslavia .

In 1981 Cerić accepted a position in the USA as Imam of the Islamic Cultural Center in Northbrook (Illinois) and did his doctorate with Fazlur Rahman at the University of Chicago in 1987 on the theology of Abu Mansur al-Maturidis . At the end of the 1980s, Cerić was Imam in the White Mosque in Gračanica and Imam in the Mosque of Zagreb and taught at the Faculty of Islamic Sciences in Sarajevo.

In 1990 Cerić was a founding member of Izetbegović's "Party of Democratic Action" ( Stranka demokratske akcije , SDA). From 1991 to 1993 he taught at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) of the Islamic University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur , founded by Muhammad Naquib al-Attas , where he also acted as Izetbegović's representative.

Cerić was provisionally appointed Bosnian Grand Mufti during the Bosnian War on April 28, 1993 under circumstances that are described by critics as a "coup meeting" against Jakub Selimovski.

He was confirmed in August 1995 and re-elected in November 1998 and 2005. According to the constitution of the Islamic Religious Community of Bosnia-Herzegovina (Islamska zajednica, IZ BiH) from 1997, Reisu-l-ulama can only be re-elected once after a 7-year term of office; Cerić was replaced in his office as Grand Mufti by his successor at the end of 2012.

Cerić works and lives in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. His place of work was the imperial mosque .

Act

Cerić has been a founding member of the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR) since 1996 . This association of Muslim legal scholars has set itself the task of formulating Islamic law ( Fiqh ) for the modern western world. Its chairman is Yusuf al-Qaradawi . The Islamic Community Millî Görüş from Germany takes part in the ECFR work.

Cerić is a member of the European Council of Religious Leaders (ECRL), a sub-organization of the World Conference of Religions for Peace .

In his books and public declarations, Cerić developed his ideas for Muslims and for the future of Islam in Europe . In 2006 he wrote a “Declaration of European Muslims” and took part in a conference of European imams and pastors in April 2006 which passed a “Vienna Declaration”. In July 2006 he presented the "Topkapi Declaration" in Istanbul. The Zeit journalist Jörg Lau saw his “application for the post of a European Grand Mufti” , an assessment that was also published in the NZZ ( “claim to leadership over Europe's Muslims” ) and Le Monde diplomatique ( “Ceric is envisioning, under his spiritual guidance to unite all Islamic organizations in a region ” ). In Bosnia, Cerić has long been accused of making strong political claims.

On October 13, 2007, Cerić and 137 other Muslim scholars published a 29-page open letter (“ A common word between us and you ”) to Christian religious leaders, in which they called for a dialogue about common ground between the two religions. The initiative is considered to be a historic event in which Muslim leaders from different directions and countries came together for the first time.

His article in the journal European View by the European think tank Center for European Studies , which is closely related to the European People's Party , received much attention and criticism , in which he campaigned for an imamate and a single Muslim authority in Europe in 2007 and because in a theological context he declared the Sharia “as eternal, non-negotiable and infinite ”. He was succeeded by Kristina Schröder criticized the way for a "European with this demand caliphate plans to open". Cerić wrote an open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel in which, according to the dialogue website Qantara.de, he "clearly acknowledges his basic democratic convictions".

Cerić rejects the terms " Euro Islam from" and "European Islam" and prefers to speak of a "European horizons of Islam" ( "European experience of Islam" ). Europe is neither the “House of Islam” ( Dār al-Islām ) - because different religions live together on an equal footing - nor the “House of War” ( Dār al-Harb ), which must be conquered by Islam. Europe must be understood by the Muslims as the “house of the social contract”, with which Cerić refers to the contrat social Jean-Jacques Rousseau . Tariq Ramadan takes a similar approach, which refers to Islamic orthodoxy, but strives for modernization .

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CHANGE OF OFFICE IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA ( Memento from June 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Biography of Mustafa Ceric ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , IslamOnline.net @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.islamonline.net
  3. ↑ "L'islam bosniaque, entre identité culturelle et idéologie politique» ( MS Word , 111 kB), in: balkanique Xavier Bougarel / Nathalie Clayer (dir.), Le nouvel Islam. Les usulmans, acteurs du post-communisme, Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 2001, pp. 79-132
  4. ↑ a b CONTEMPORARY ISLAM IN EAST EUROPE (PDF; 99 kB) Gyorgy Lederer, Nato.int, May 1999, page 6-7
  5. ↑ IZ BiH / Rijaset Constitution of 1997 Article 58
  6. ↑ a b The Islamic Reformer Brief portrait of Ceric by Jörg Lau, Die Zeit , November 30, 2006, No. 49
  7. ↑ World Conference of Religions for Peace: http://www.wcrp.org/
  8. ^ Mustafa Cerić: Declaration of European Muslims from 2006
  9. ^ "Vienna Declaration" ( memento of July 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) of the Conference of European Imams and Pastoralists Vienna 2006
  10. ↑ Topkapi declaration text : Conference Urges EU Governments, Muslims to Bridge Gap Ali Al-Halawani, IslamOnline.net July 3, 2006
  11. ^ Claim to leadership of Reis Ceric , NZZ February 9, 2006
  12. ↑ The Influence of Islam ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 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. Jean-Arnault Dérens, Le Monde diplomatique, September 12, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.monde-diplomatique.de
  13. ^ The State Religion ( Memento from July 9, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) by Gojko Beric, Bosnian daily Oslobodjenje April 1996
  14. ↑ Theodor Heuss Prize to Mustafa Ceric - important figure of integration ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Zoran Arbutina Deutsche Welle May 15, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.qantara.de
  15. ↑ “… has personal political ambitions” SARAJEVO: A JOURNEY TO AN INTERRELIGIOUS FUTURE ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2008 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. Leonard Swidler and Paul Mojzes, Dec 1995 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / astro.temple.edu
  16. ^ "A Common Word Between Us and You"
  17. ↑ Christian W. Troll: Our souls are in danger , DIE ZEIT, October 18, 2007, p. 14
  18. ↑ Ingo Koll: Sleepy Dialogue? ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), religious-pedagogical Internet platform of the Evangelical Church in Germany
  19. ^ A b Mustafa Ceric: The Challenge of a single Muslim authority in Europe . In: European View (2007) 6: 41-48. doi : 10.1007 / s12290-007-0004-8
  20. ↑ Article in CDU-affiliated journal calls for Sharia law in Europe By Ansgar Graw, Die Welt, May 13, 2008
  21. ^ Mustafa Ceric, Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina - bridge builder or fundamentalist in disguise? ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Zoran Arbutina qantara.de November 25, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.qantara.de
  22. ↑ Interview: “Patriots in the Name of Islam” ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Erich Rathfelder, taz, April 16, 2004 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.qantara.de
  23. ↑ Islam: Bosnian Cleric Sees Unique Role For Europe's Muslims Dzenana Halimovic interview RFE / RL March 15, 2006
  24. ^ Association of Muslim Social Scientists in Great Britain (AMSSUK) LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD TO REISU-L-ULEMA DR. CERIĆ Bosniaks.Net, May 14, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Cerić, Mustafa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian-Herzegovinian Islamic theologian, Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Visoko