Roswitha Badry

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Roswitha Badry (born January 17, 1959 in Thuine ) is a German scholar of Islam .

Life

She completed her studies (1977–1982) in Oriental Philology (Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu in addition to classical and modern subjects in Islamic studies), political science and medieval and modern history at the University of Cologne in 1982 as a Magistra Artium. After receiving her doctorate in 1985, she was a research assistant at the Oriental Seminary at the University of Tübingen from 1986 to 1992 ; several events in conjunction with the Political Science Seminar and the Seminar for Comparative Religious Studies; several events on behalf of the State Center for Political Education and adult education centers. Since 1992 she has been an Academic Councilor for Islamic Studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . After the Habilitation 1995 at the Cultural Studies in Tübingen ( teaching license for Islamic Studies) and the Habilitation 1997 it was 2002 unscheduled professor .

Her main research interests are the survival of classical or pre-modern Islam in the modern age (18th – 20th centuries), u. a. in the area of ​​social order, the issue of tolerance and violence (apostasy problem, "heresy" etc.), legal terminology and women- (gender) -specific topics, Shiite Islam (especially with a view to the theory of domination and scholarly biographies) and autobiographies , Memoirs and biographies of women.

Fonts (selection)

  • The development of the third universal theory (DUT) of Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfīs in theory and practice. From a history of ideas and historical point of view . Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-8204-9658-0 .
  • The contemporary discussion about the Islamic idea of ​​counseling (šūrā) under the special aspect of the continuities and discontinuities of the history of ideas . Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07048-6 .
  • Way out of the "demographic trap" or "conspiracy against Islam"? On the contemporary inner-Islamic discussion of birth control and family planning . Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-89173-050-0 .
  • as editor with Maria Rohrer and Karin Steiner: Love, sexuality, marriage and partnership - paradigms in transition. Contributions to orientalist gender research . Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, ISBN 3-939348-16-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Badry, Roswitha. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. degruyter.com, accessed on May 12, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated, restricted online edition).
personal data
SURNAME Badry, Roswitha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar of Islam
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Thuine