Patrick Franke

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Patrick Franke (* 1967 ) is a German scholar of Islam . He holds the chair for Islamic Studies at the University of Bamberg .

Career

Franke studied Islamic studies, law and Semitic studies at the University of Bonn from 1988 to 1994 . His academic teachers here included Stefan Wild and Reinhard Schulze . Franke spent the academic year 1990/1991 at the University of Aleppo , where he studied Arabic as a guest student . During this time he researched Sulaimān Murschid and the beginnings of the Murschidīya movement he founded. From 1995 to 1998 Franke was a scholarship holder of the DFG graduate college "Intercultural Religious and Religious-Historical Studies" in Bonn , headed by Hans Waldenfels . In 1999 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on al-Chidr . From 1999 to 2006 Franke worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Oriental Studies at the University of Halle . From 2006 to 2008 he was a substitute professor at the Universities of Hamburg, Leipzig and Jena.

In 2008, he completed his habilitation in the areas of Islamic studies and Arabic studies with a thesis on the Meccan scholar ʿAlī al-Qārī . From December 2008 to September 2009 Franke was a Heisenberg fellow . Since 2009 he has held the chair for Islamic Studies at the University of Bamberg. From 2013 to 2017 Franke was managing director of the Center for Interreligious Studies (ZIS) at the University of Bamberg.

Franke has also been involved in the German-language Wikipedia since 2011 . In 2016, he brought together his articles on the subject of Islam in the Bamberg Islam Encyclopedia. At the Wikiversity he also offers the Bamberg Introduction to the History of Islam (BEGI) as an OER course , an interactive overview of the history of Islam in 14 chapters.

Publications (selection)

  • “The Thought of Jihad in Medieval Islam” in Ingrid Bennewitz, Klaus van Eickels (Ed.): Richard Löwenherz. A Christian ruler in the age of confrontation with Islam. Medieval perceptions and modern reception . Bamberg University Press, Bamberg, 2018, pp. 95–117.
  • "On dealing with Islamic norms on health, body and sexuality: Recommendations for health care" in Health Promotion, Vol. 21. Cultural Sensitivity in Health Education - Cultural Differences in Communication: Barriers, Chances, Solutions. Contributions to the workshop discussion between the BZgA and universities on November 3, 2016 in Cologne. Federal Center for Health Education, Cologne, 2017. pp. 8–29.
  • What is forbidden in Islam, what is allowed? Religious expert opinions on questions of sexual ethics on the Internet. In: Forum sex education and family planning 2-2016, pp. 21–24 ( online version ).
  • Are the parents of the Prophet in Hell? Tracing the history of a debate in Sunnī Islam. In: Lale Behzadi u. a. (Ed.): Bamberger Orientstudien. University of Bamberg Press, Bamberg 2014, pp. 135–158 ( PDF ).
  • Islam: State and Religion in Modern Europe. In: European History Online , ed. from the Institute for European History , 2012.
  • Before scientia sexualis in Islamic culture: ʿIlm al-bāh between erotology, medicine and pornography. In: Social Identities 18/2, 2012, pp. 161–173.
  • On the future positioning of Islam at German universities - an Islamic studies position paper on the recommendations of the Science Council of January 29, 2010. In Hasan Karaca (Ed.): Bachelor-Imam? Considerations for the establishment of Islamic theological faculties in Germany. Cologne 2010, pp. 25–39 ( online version ).
  • The Islamic Sexual Ethics before the Challenges of Sexual Modernity: Defensive Reactions, Attempts to Adjust and Counter-Drafts In: U. Busch (Ed.): Sexual and reproductive health and rights. National and international perspectives. Baden-Baden 2010, pp. 85–110.
  • The Ego of the Mullah: Strategies of Self-Representation in the Works of the Meccan Scholar ʿAli al-Qārī (d. 1606). In: Ralf Elger, Yavuz Köse (Ed.): Many Ways of Speaking about the Self. Middle Eastern Ego-Documents in Arabic, Persian, Turkish (14th – 20th century). Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 185-200.
  • Cross-reference as self-testimony - individuality and intertextuality in the writings of the Meccan scholar Mullā ʿAlī al-Qārī (st. 1014/1606). In: St. Reichmuth, Fl. Schwarz (Ed.): Between everyday life and written culture: horizons of the individual in Arabic literature of the 17th and 18th centuries. Beirut texts and studies 110. Beirut-Würzburg 2008, pp. 131–163.
  • Meeting with Khidr. Source studies on the imaginary in traditional Islam. Ergon-Verlag, Beirut / Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-89913-231-9 ( digitized version ).
  • Divine career of a Syrian shepherd. Sulaimān Muršid (1907–1946) and the beginnings of Muršidiyya. Schwarz, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87997-234-6 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Julius Heinrichs: Wiki and the strong man / Anyone who wants to contribute to the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia. That is why it is largely of no interest to researchers. The Islamic scholar Patrick Franke wants to change that. In: Sonntag, supplement to the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) of February 3, 2018, p. 6; also varies on the HAZ website from February 2, 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official website of the Bamberg Islam Encyclopedia
personal data
SURNAME Franke, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar of Islam
DATE OF BIRTH 1967