Zekirija Sejdini

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Zekirija Sejdini

Zekirija Sejdini (born October 21, 1972 in Vrapčište , SR Macedonia , SFR Yugoslavia ) is an Austrian Islamic theologian and religious educator with North Macedonian roots. Since 2014 he has been the first university professor for Islamic religious education at the University of Innsbruck . He is the founder and director of Austria's first institute for Islamic theology and religious education at the University of Innsbruck, which opened on January 1, 2017.

Life

Zekirija Sejdini comes from the Albanian minority of North Macedonia . After graduating from high school in 1991, he studied at al-Azhar University in Cairo and Marmara University in the fields of Islamic theology, philosophy and religious education. In 2002 a teaching position followed at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Ludwigsburg with a focus on Christian-Islamic dialogue. In 2004 he became department head for teaching at the Islamic Religious Education Academy in Vienna and specialist inspector for Islamic religious instruction at the general compulsory schools in Vienna. From 2009 he held the positions of deputy head of the education office of the Islamic Faith Community Austria (IGGÖ) and the specialist inspector for Islamic religious instruction at Viennese high schools. At the same time he taught as a lecturer at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck, at the Catholic University of Education in Vienna / Krems and at the University of Education in Vienna . Sejdini received his doctorate in 2012 from the University of Heidelberg on the understanding of the Sufi mystic Abu Talib al-Makki (died 996 in Baghdad) in his treatise Qūt al-qulūb (Food of the Heart). Between 2011 and 2014 he was chairman of the shura council and media officer of the Islamic Faith Community Austria (IGGÖ). In 2014 he was appointed the first university professor for Islamic religious education at the University of Innsbruck.

Sejdini has headed the newly founded Institute for Islamic Theology and Religious Education at the University of Innsbruck since 2017. In 2018 he was awarded the Kurt Schubert Memorial Prize for Interreligious Understanding for his services to academic research and teaching of Islamic doctrines .

Positions

He advocates an "anthropological turnaround" in Islamic theology and religious education in order to be able to rethink both from the current context. For this he sees the need to question the traditional image of man and the classical understanding of theology and education. In order to achieve the turning points mentioned above, in Islamic theology and religious education, a critical examination of the current understanding of tradition and revelation in Islam is required. Neither the Koran should be regarded as the only source of revelation in the general sense, nor the Islamic tradition as eternally valid. Subject orientation and contingency awareness are two key categories that form the basis of Sejdini's theological and religious-pedagogical thinking. As one of the few Muslim theologians and religious educators , he can be said to be close to constructivism .

In his research, Sejdini places particular emphasis on interreligious religious education. He is of the opinion that a genuine Islamic theology can only be thought of in an interreligious way, especially taking into account the monotheistic tradition.

literature

  • Sejdini, Zekirija; Kraml, Martina; Scharer, Matthias: Becoming Human: An interreligious religious didactics from a Muslim-Christian perspective. Studies on interreligious religious education, vol. 1. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-17-031489-4 .
  • Sejdini, Zekirija: The nourishment of the heart: Faith and knowledge in Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī. Lang-Ed., Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-62555-2 .
  • Sejdini, Zekirija (Ed.): Islamic theology and religious education in motion: new approaches in Europe. transcript, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3395-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Introduced: A coexistence of religions , imagination and vita on the side of the University of Innsbruck. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  2. ↑ Univ.- Prof. Mag. Dr. Zekirija Sejdini CV on the website of the University of Salzburg. Retrieved February 8, 2018 (PDF)
  3. ↑ Kurt Schubert Memorial Prize 2018 Announcement of the 5th award ceremony on weltreligionen.at. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  4. ↑ Islam: A possibility to be human Article in the Tiroler Tageszeitung from March 19, 2016. Retrieved on March 5, 2020.
  5. ↑ Islam Discussion: Always reinterpreting the Koran Article by Jutta Berger from February 3, 2015 on derstandard.at. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  6. ↑ Diocesan Day : Together of Christians and Muslims Article from April 28, 2015 on religionen.orf.at. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Sejdini, Zekirija
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Islamic theologian and religious educator with North Macedonian roots
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Vrapčište , North Macedonia