Rabeya Müller

Rabeya Müller , also Rabeya Müller-Haque (* 1957 in Mayen in the Eifel ) is a German scholar of Islam , Muslim theologian and religious educator .

Life

The then Catholic converted to Islam after graduating from high school in the late 1970s . After studying pedagogy , Islamic studies and ethnology in Germany, Canada and Asia, she published works on Islam and the position of women in Islam, on Islam and the disabled and on Muslims in Germany. At the Institute for Interreligious Pedagogy and Didactics , she designs textbooks for Islamic religious instruction, develops teaching materials and curriculum contents, develops interreligious and intercultural educational theories and teaching concepts, and trains religious educators and mediators . She works as a representative of a “ gender equitable Islam” in the Center for Islamic Research on Women and the Advancement of Women , which advises Muslim women in need, including victims of domestic violence , and develops courses in the areas of self-assertion training for Muslim girls and how to deal with Muslims . Against the background of gender research , she works on gender-specific pedagogy in Islam. Müller was the head of the Cologne Institute for Interreligious Education and Didactics .

Positions

“ Above all, she praises the Islamic image of God that it presupposes a mature believer. At the Islamic ethics appreciates in particular the centrality of justice . [She] describes herself as a "liberal, European Muslim."

- Rabeya Müller - the pious feminist in the world on Sunday

On the occasion of the circumcision debate from 2012 onwards, Müller said at the 99th German Catholic Day in 2014: “ Religions have to put up with questions, learn to deal with them, and don't always see them as an affront. "

Memberships

She is deputy chairwoman of the Center for Islamic Research on Women and the Advancement of Women , former chairwoman of the Conference of European Theologians initiative , first spokeswoman for 'interreligiones' - forum for interreligious education , member of the advisory board of the International Peace School , Cologne, member of Intra , member of the commission for Islamic religious instruction , Member of the Advisory Board “Chair for the Religion of Islam” of the Center for Religious Studies at the University of Münster , member of the World Conference of Religions for Peace , member of the preparatory committee for the Interreligious Summer University Loccum , member of the Christian-Islamic Forum of the Christian-Islamic Society and founding member of the Liberal Islamic Federation .

Honors

In 2009, the school book Saphir 5/6 , initiated by Müller and published together with Lamya Kaddor and Harry Harun Behr , was awarded the honorary prize of the Best European Schoolbook Award 2009 at the Frankfurt Book Fair . The reason given was: "It is recognized that Saphir presents Islam in an understandable and clear manner, connects the topics with the everyday life of young people in Germany and makes references to other religions." The book was published in August 2008 as the first German-language textbook for Islamic studies public schools. It was the first textbook that was approved by the German education ministries of the federal states for this class. It has been used in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Bremen since 2008. The book is published by Kösel-Verlag in Munich . A large number of educators and Islamic scholars contributed as authors to the book, which works with illustrations, graphics, photos, calligraphy and texts. The book received a lot of media coverage.

On November 15, 2017, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts awarded Rabeya Müller, Avishay Braverman , Mitri Raheb the tolerance rings based on Lessing's ring parable to representatives of the three Abrahamic religions to promote justice and tolerance between Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Publications

Books

• with Lamya Kaddor  : Islam for children and adults . Verlag CH Beck , Munich, 1st edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-64016-2
• with Lamya Kaddor: The Koran for children and adults . CH Beck, Munich, 3rd edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-57222-7 . ( Review of the first edition 2008 on Socialnet ).
• with Maryam Frenzel: Health and Illness in Islam . Huda - Network for Muslim Women, 2nd Bonn 1999, 4th edition 2004 ISBN 3-933872-01-4

Editorships

• with Asma Barlas, Nahide Bozkurt: The Koran Reread : Feminist Interpretations. Documentation. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , Politische Akademie - Interkultureller Dialog, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-89892-908-0 .
• with Maryam Frenzel-Hassan: The Islamic Cookbook. Frenzel-Hassan, Remagen 1992, ISBN 3-928801-00-7 .

School book

• (Ed. With Lamya Kaddor and Harry Harun Behr ): Saphir 5/6. Religious book for young Muslims. With photos and illustrations by Ulrike Bahl. Kösel-Verlag , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-466-50782-5 . (the first textbook for Islamic studies in German)
• (Ed. With Lamya Kaddor and Harry Harun Behr): Saphir 5/6. Religious book for young Muslims. Teacher's commentary With photos and illustrations by Ulrike Bahl. Kösel, Munich 2009

Articles and lectures

• Disability and Integration in Islam. In: Annebelle Pithan u. a. (Ed.): Handbook of integrative religious education - reflections and impulses for society, schools and communities. Publication of the Comenius Institute . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2002, pp. 184-188
• The Germans' fear of the Basic Law - On the coexistence of cultures in our society. In: Evangelische Frauenhilfe in Deutschland (Ed.): Working aid for passing on, enduring or shaping globalization? No. 3. Düsseldorf 2001, pp. 71-75
• The own and the foreign or the own foreign. In: Islam im Schulbuch - Documentation for the symposium “The Image of Islam in German School Books” 3rd – 5th April 2001, Bonn. Spohr, Kandern in the Black Forest 2001, pp. 62–72.
• Islamic religious instruction - with a difference. In: Islamic religious instruction at state schools in Germany, Practice - Concepts - Perspectives. Documentation of a technical discussion. Federal Government Commissioner for Foreigner Issues , No. 8, Berlin 2000, pp. 88–96.
• Basic ideas for interreligious teaching from an Islamic perspective. Short lecture at the Evangelical Academy in Mülheim an der Ruhr . IPD, May 2000.
• Spirituality and Ethics in Class. In: Johannes Lähnemann (ed.): Spirituality and ethical education - legacy and challenge of religions. Lectures and results of the Nuremberg Forum 2000. In: Pedagogical contributions to the cultural encounter. Volume 20. ebv, Hamburg 2000, pp. 322-332.
• Allah is great - and religious education is a broad field. In: Forum Buntes Deutschland. November 1999, pp. 33-36.
• Islamic religious instruction: "Dear Fatherland ...", or what does Islam have to do with Germany? In: Cibedo Contributions. 11, 2/3, 1997, pp. 67-70

Web links

• Rabeya Müller in WeltOnline on April 13, 2008
• Rabeya Müller on stream-tv (three films)
• Rabeya Müller in the Federal Agency for Political Education

Individual evidence

1. ↑ University of Hamburg : Rabeya Müller "Disability in Islam"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 145 kB).  
2. ↑ KCID - Coordination Council of Christian-Islamic Dialogue  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Rabeya Müller: inter religion (e) s ( memento of the original from August 10, 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. 
4. ^ Welt Online from April 13, 2008
5. ↑ kathikentag.de ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2014 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. 
6. ↑ BEST EUROPEAN SCHOOLBOOK AWARD 2009. Accessed November 16, 2017 . 
7. ↑ European Academy of Sciences and Arts: Invitation to the awarding of the tolerance rings and the school prize "Toleranz macht Schule" 2017. Accessed on November 16, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Cologne schools awarded a prize for tolerance. Retrieved November 16, 2017 . 
9. ^ Award for Imamin Rabeya Müller from Cologne. WDR, accessed November 16, 2017 .