Sabiha El-Zayat

Sabiha El-Zayat (born 1970 in Cologne ) is a German doctor and personality of Islam in Germany and Europe .

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Sabiha El-Zayat was born in Cologne in 1970 , grew up in Ankara , Turkey and returned to Cologne when she was ten. She studied human medicine , Islamic studies , Protestant theology and ethnology at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn . Since 1999 she has been a lecturer in Islamic Hermeneutics and Didactics at the Center for Islamic Research and Promotion of Women (ZIF) in Cologne. She also works at the Center for Islamic Women Studies of the Institut Européen des Sciences Humaines (IESH / European Institute for Humanities) in Paris. She is a member of the European Muslim Network . Since 2001 she has been the deputy chairwoman of the Society of Muslim Social and Humanities scholars . The German Islamic scholar Guido Steinberg described her as a leading Islamist functionary .

El-Zayat is the niece of the Turkish politician Necmettin Erbakan (1926–2011), who is considered the father of the Islamic movement in Turkey, and the sister of Mehmet Erbakan (born 1967 in Cologne), head of Milli Görüs Germany . She is married to Ibrahim El-Zayat (born 1968 in Marburg ), the German businessman and functionary of Islamic organizations in Europe and son of the Egyptian Farouk El-Zayat, who worked as an imam in Marburg . The Spiegel journalist Andrea Brandt sees these personal connections as linking “two important currents”, namely “ political Islam with Turkish and Egyptian characteristics”.

El-Zayat and her husband are among the signatories of the Amman Message ( english Amman Message , 2004). Very few women signed it. In 2006 El-Zayat took part in the Table of Free Voices , a round table organized by the Dropping Knowledge initiative . The director Ralf Schmerberg processed recordings of this event in the documentary Problema , in which El-Zayat also has a say.

Publications (selection)

• On the way to a natural coexistence in a plural Europe. In: Muslims in the secular constitutional state (2001), pp. 29–36. Also in: Thomas Hartmann (ed.): Muslims in the secular constitutional state: new actors in culture and politics . 2001 ( a in Google Book Search; b in Google Book Search)
• Veiled, covered, protected - revealed, exposed, exposed, in: Junge Kirche, Uelzen, H. 3/2004, 6-10.
• The gender balance in Islam; In: Cultural Diversity - Discourse on Democracy. Political education in the multi-religious and multi-ethnic society / Menke, Barbara; Waldmann, Klaus; Wirtz, Peter. Schwalbach: Wochenschau Verlag, 2006
• Difference as an opportunity: Muslims in Germany and the role of the residential society - boell-hessen.de
• Reproductive medicine from a Muslim perspective: Basic ethical terms - gevth.de

References and footnotes

1. ↑ Guido Steinberg : "The Muslim Brotherhood in Germany", p. 149 ff. In: Barry Rubin: The Muslim Brotherhood: The Organization and Policies of a Global Islamist Movement. (Middle East in Focus). 2010, p.159, note 20
2. ^ Re: Sabiha El-Zayat. In: Die Tageszeitung , March 8, 2002.
3. ^ Signatory list of the Amman Embassy ("Institute for the Human Sciences (IESH)"). Co-signer Zuhair Mahmood works in the same institute.
4. ↑ eumuslim.net (team) - accessed on November 21, 2017.
5. ↑ Short biography ( House of World Cultures ) - accessed on November 30, 2017
6. ↑ Guido Steinberg: "The Muslim Brotherhood in Germany", p. 149 ff. In: Barry Rubin: The Muslim Brotherhood: The Organization and Policies of a Global Islamist Movement. (Middle East in Focus). 2010, p.159, note 20 ("a leading Islamist functionary")
7. ↑ The Lord of the Mosques . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , December 19, 2007
8. ↑ Andrea Brandt: Identity & Integration: Agile Weltmann. In: Spiegel Online , March 25, 2008. Accessed November 21, 2017.
9. ^ Problema. In: IMDb (English); Sabiha El-Zayat-Erbakan. In: IMDb (English).

Web links

• Sabiha El-Zayat-Erbakan
• taz.de: In real Islamic life everything will be fine? ( Sanem Kleff and Sabiha El-Zayat in a dispute)