Center for Islamic Theology (University of Tübingen)

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Center for Islamic Theology in the Villa Köstlin
Villa Köstlin in an old photograph

The Center for Islamic Theology is an institution of the University of Tübingen . Lectures began in the 2011/2012 winter semester.

tasks

At present there ( winter semester seven 2019/20) departments , namely the Koran sciences , "Islamic Practical Theology (pastoral)", hadeeth nanosciences and Prophetic Tradition, Sharia , "Islamic doctrine", "Islamic history and contemporary culture" and "Islamic Religious Education" . About 220 people study here.

In addition to Islamic scholars , the Tübingen Center also trains imams and German-speaking religion teachers who can then be employed at general schools as soon as the federal states have created curricula for Islamic religious instruction.

criticism

The center has come under fire for alleged links with Islamists , including the Muslim Brotherhood . A lecturer is to be observed by the Baden-Württemberg constitutional protection. It also reports on misogynist discrimination, on offensive requests to keep the fast in Ramadan or to pray. Professor Abdelmalek Hibaoui is said to have participated in a conference in Turkey which called for the destruction of Israel, among other things . The university management commented on these and other allegations and has announced that they will take action against them. At the request of the FDP parliamentary group in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament, the responsible ministry of science also issued a statement.

building

The facility is located in the Villa Köstlin , which was commissioned by the couple Christian Reinhold Köstlin and Josephine Caroline Lang in 1842/43 and is now a listed building at Rümelinstrasse 27, close to the Protestant Theological Faculty and the Catholic Theological Faculty . Offices, a meeting room, a room for a reference library and a large and two smaller seminar rooms were set up there. In the medium term, a new building is to be built in the immediate vicinity of the existing Theologicum .

background

The federal states ensure that Christian religious instruction is provided across the board. So far, this does not apply to religious instruction for Muslim children. Since, according to an estimate by the Federal Ministry of Education, 2,000 teachers are needed for around 700,000 Muslim students, a start should be made with the four centers. It was not until February 2011 that the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia was the first to reach an agreement with Islamic organizations to develop a common curriculum .

While the state itself controls the institutions for studying Protestant theology and Catholic theology in cooperation with the churches, the training of Islamic theologians and religion teachers was not regulated in the 16 federal states. In fact, the Turkish government trained numerous imams, sent around 100 of them to Germany for around four years and paid them. The disadvantages: The imams often do not have full command of the German language, do not represent all denominations of Islam and are not fully familiar with the reality of life in the host country. The Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion (DİTİB) also does not represent non-Turkish Muslims.

The state is based on the experience that religious instruction has been taking place for a long time, for example within the framework of mosque associations. There is no compulsory participation of Islamic students in Protestant or Catholic religious instruction; an Islamic exists in the rarest of cases.

The German Science Council recommended the facilities of the centers: They should cooperate with Islamic studies, the theological faculties and other humanities subjects. In 2008, the German Islam Conference had already spoken out in favor of comprehensive religious instruction.

In addition to Tübingen, three other locations were selected for studying Islamic theology, namely Osnabrück in cooperation with Münster , Frankfurt in cooperation with Gießen and Erlangen-Nuremberg . The other centers did not start work until 2012. The federal government is funding the centers for up to five years with up to four million euros each. In addition to an eight-semester bachelor's degree , a teaching degree should also be possible.

On April 11, 2015, the heads of the centers in Münster and Tübingen were among the first to sign the declaration on the establishment of the liberal Muslim Forum Germany . The forum wants to give the humanist-minded Muslims a voice and to help shape society and defend human rights.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Article in the daily newspaper of October 1, 2011 , accessed on October 4, 2011
  2. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten of September 2, 2019
  3. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten of September 2, 2019
  4. ↑ Die Welt from September 19, 2019
  5. ↑ https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/156?tx_news_pi1 [news] = 42727
  6. ↑ https://www.kath.net/news/68740 report on kath.net
  7. ↑ https://www.landtag-bw.de/files/live/sites/LTBW/files/dokumente/WP16/Drucksachen/6000/16_6748_D.pdf Application from the FDP parliamentary group and statement from the ministry, LT-Drs. 16/6478 of August 2, 2019
  8. ↑ Martin Schreier: Responsible for questions of faith. Reutlinger Generalanzeiger, May 5, 2011.
  9. ↑ Press release of the University of Tübingen from September 30, 2011 (PDF; 293 kB), accessed on October 4, 2011
  10. ^ Report in the WELT of February 22, 2011 , accessed on October 4, 2011
  11. ^ Sabine Ripperger: First Center for Islamic Theology. , Deutsche Welle of October 10, 2011 , accessed on October 11, 2011
  12. ^ Document of the Science Council: Recommendations for the further development of theologies and religion-related sciences at German universities. from January 29, 2010, p. 84 (PDF; 834 kB) , accessed on October 4, 2011
  13. ↑ Islamic religious instruction - a topic of the DIK ( Memento from July 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  14. ↑ Press release of the Federal Ministry of Education from October 2012 ( memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 13, 2013
  15. ↑ Information from the Federal Ministry of Education , accessed on October 11, 2011
  16. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung of October 1, 2011 , accessed on October 4, 2011
  17. ↑ Founding declaration
  18. ^ Report from the Süddeutsche Zeitung
  19. ^ Domradio: Critical Voice

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