Werner Ende
Werner Ende (born September 22, 1937 in Wittenberg ) is a German scholar of Islam .
Life
From 1956 to 1958, Ende did a book trade apprenticeship in Halle (Saale) . From 1958 to 1964 he studied Arabic and Islamic studies in Halle, Hamburg and Cairo. He was born in Hamburg in 1965 with the work Europe picture and cultural self-confidence among Muslims at the end of the 19th century. Depicted on the writings of the two Egyptian writers Ibrahim and Muhammad Al-Muwailihi .
From 1969 to 1971 he worked as a scientific consultant at the Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society in Beirut. He completed his habilitation in 1973/74 with the text Arab Nation and Islamic History: The Umayyads as Judged by Arab Authors of the 20th Century .
From 1977 to 1983 he was professor for "contemporary Islamic studies" at the University of Hamburg and from 1983 to 2002 he held the chair for Islamic studies at the Oriental Seminar of the University of Freiburg .
The main research interests of Ende are Arabic historiography in modern times, Wahhabism , Salafism and the Twelve Shiites (especially Lebanon, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula).
Ende was editor of the Freiburg Islam Studies series and co-editor of the magazine Die Welt des Islams .
Fonts (selection)
- as editor
- with Udo Steinbach : Islam in the Present: Development and Spread - Culture and Religion - State, Politics and Law. Federal Agency for Civic Education, 5th edition, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-89331-625-6 .
- Arab Nation and Islamic History. The Umayyads as Judged by 20th Century Arab Authors . Beirut-Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-515-01841-7 .
- Specter and real threat: the "holy war" of the fundamentalists . Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-504-65006-0 .
literature
- Rainer Brunner, Monika Gronke , Jens Peter Laut , Ulrich Rebstock (eds.): Islam studies without end. Festschrift for Werner Ende on his 65th birthday (= treatises for the customer of the Orient. Vol. 54, 1). Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-89913-260-2 , pp. XIX – XXIX.
Web links
- Literature by and about Werner Ende in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage at the Oriental Seminar of the University of Freiburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | End, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German scholar of Islam |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wittenberg |