Prof. Dr. Hartmut Bobzin
Alfried Krupp Senior Fellow
Born 1946 in Bremen
Studied Protestant Theology, Comparative Religion, Indian Studies and Semitic Studies in Marburg and Damascus
Professor of Islamic Studies at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
The Koran in Europe
The history of a holy book “abroad”
How do we get to know the Koran, the holy book of Muslims, in Europe? Why are we interested in it at all? Why was the Arabic text printed much earlier in Europe than in the Islamic Orient? Why did Martin Luther want to read the Koran, why did he encourage its publication (in Latin) and even translate some verses from Latin into German? How did Lessing come to quote a verse from the Koran in Nathan the Wise in order to invoke the equality of the three monotheistic religions? And what gave a Frankfurt judge the extremely controversial idea of citing a passage from the Koran apparently justifying violence against women in a verdict? The history of the Koran in Europe is first of all the history of its translation into various European languages. However it is also part of the history of European theology, literature and culture; it concerns the way Europeans have dealt with alterity, which as a result of migration has become part of our own present-day society and culture
Born 1946 in Bremen
Studied Protestant Theology, Comparative Religion, Indian Studies and Semitic Studies in Marburg and Damascus
Professor of Islamic Studies at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
The Koran in Europe
The history of a holy book “abroad”
How do we get to know the Koran, the holy book of Muslims, in Europe? Why are we interested in it at all? Why was the Arabic text printed much earlier in Europe than in the Islamic Orient? Why did Martin Luther want to read the Koran, why did he encourage its publication (in Latin) and even translate some verses from Latin into German? How did Lessing come to quote a verse from the Koran in Nathan the Wise in order to invoke the equality of the three monotheistic religions? And what gave a Frankfurt judge the extremely controversial idea of citing a passage from the Koran apparently justifying violence against women in a verdict? The history of the Koran in Europe is first of all the history of its translation into various European languages. However it is also part of the history of European theology, literature and culture; it concerns the way Europeans have dealt with alterity, which as a result of migration has become part of our own present-day society and culture
06/02/12
Deutsche Literatur 1930-1960 — Probleme der Periodisierung und der Interpretation
Alfried Krupp Fellow Lecture
13/02/12
Features and Functions of Human gamma/delta T-Cells
Vortragsreihe „Molekulare Mechanismen elementarer Lebensprozesse“
