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The IU series (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen) was founded in 1969 by the Klaus Schwarz Verlag. Since then, it has become one of the most important venues for publications in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Its more than 350 volumes cover a broad range from early Islamic to contemporary topics and address a wide range of topics from the fields of history, culture, and social studies. With a regional scope that includes Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority societies of West Asia and North Africa as well as in neighboring regions and contexts of migration, the IU series promotes research that draws on primary source material from these regions and critically engages with knowledge production in the field.
The series features monographs, edited volumes, scholarly editions of and translations from source languages, collection catalogues and is open for other formats. We welcome contributions from multiple disciplines (Islamic Theology, History and Philology, Political and Social Sciences, Anthropology, Religious Studies, etc.), including first books, e.g., revised dissertations or habilitations. We publish in English, German, French, and occasionally other languages.
For submissions, please contact the Acquisitions Editor Torsten Wollina (torsten.wollina@degruyterbrill.com).
Author / Editor information
Dr. Björn Bentlage, University of Bern
Prof. Dr. Lisa Maria Franke, Ghent University
Prof. Dr. Barbara Henning, Hamburg University
Dr. Dženita Karić, University of Amsterdam
PD Dr. Georg Leube, University of Bayreuth
Hedwig Klein was a brilliant scholar of Islam whose life and career were tragically cut short by the Holocaust. Born in Antwerp in 1911 and raised in Hamburg, Klein studied at the University of Hamburg under Rudolf Strothmann, Walter Windfuhr, Arthur Schaade, and others from 1931 until 1935. In 1937, she earned the highest possible grades for her oral exams and her doctoral dissertation, an edition of a historical Ibāḍī text. But her dream of an academic career was shattered in 1938 when she was barred from receiving her doctoral degree on account of being Jewish. As the grip of Nazism tightened, Klein’s life took a tragic turn. She secured a visa for India in 1939 and left Hamburg, but her hope of escape was cruelly dashed when her ship was ordered to return to Germany because of the imminent outbreak of World War II. Trapped in Hamburg, Klein found herself without prospects for survival or escape. For a few months in 1941–42, she worked on the Harrassowitz project to compile a dictionary of modern Arabic, but her fate was sealed. On July 11, 1942, Klein was deported to Auschwitz, where she was likely murdered upon arrival. In 1947, five years after her death, she was awarded the doctoral degree she had been denied. On August 10, 1951, she was officially declared dead.
Klein’s story has sparked renewed interest since the early 2000s. This interest has focused on her involvement in the Harrassowitz dictionary project, eventually published as Hans Wehr’s Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart, and on the dictionary’s alleged connection to efforts to produce an authorized Arabic translation of Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
Drawing on archival material from Germany, Israel, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland, and elsewhere, this study uncovers Klein’s biography, including her family background, her upbringing, and her contribution to scholarship, in order to honor her legacy and address misconceptions about her work. It also reconstructs the early history of Wehr’s dictionary and Klein’s contribution to it in great detail to demonstrate that the dictionary project was unrelated to earlier endeavors to translate Mein Kampf into Arabic.
Der vorliegende dritte Band der Gesamtbibliographie Dreihunderdreißig Jahre Wissenschaft zu Qur’an und Islam umfasst Einträge aus den Jahren 2005 bis 2024.
Die Gesamtbibliographie besteht aus vier Bänden und verzeichnet knapp zwanzigtausend Einträge aus den Jahren 1694 bis 2024 (plus Nachträge).
Die Einträge sind konsequent chronologisch angeordnet und wurden sämtlich im Autopsie-Verfahren überprüft. Sie enthalten neben vollständigen Autornamen und Titeleinträgen detaillierte Informationen zum Gegenstand und zum Publikationsort. Sämtliche Einträge sind ins Deutsche übersetzt und kommentiert. Komplimentiert werden sie durch ein Register, das im vierten Band geliefert wird.
Diese Bibliographie stellt für die Forschung ein unverzichtbares Standardwerk dar.
Der vorliegende zweite Band der Gesamtbibliographie Dreihundertdreißig Jahre Wissenschaft zu Qur'ân und Islam umfasst Einträge aus den Jahren 1975 bis 2004.
Die Gesamtbibliographie besteht aus vier Bänden und verzeichnet knapp 20.000 Einträge aus den Jahren 1694 bis 2024 (plus Nachträge). Es folgen im dritten Band Einträge aus den Jahren 2005 bis 2024. Die Einträge sind konsequent chronologisch angeordnet und wurden sämtlich im Autopsie-Verfahren überprüft. Sie enthalten neben vollständigen Autornamen und Titeleinträgen detaillierte Informationen zum Gegenstand und zum Publikationsort. Sämtliche Einträge sind ins Deutsche übersetzt und kommentiert. Komplimentiert werden Sie durch ein Register, das im vierten Band geliefert wird.
Diese Bibliographie stellt für die Forschung ein unverzichtbares Standardwerk dar.
Der vorliegende erste Band der Gesamtbibliographie Dreihundertdreißig Jahre Wissenschaft zu Qur’ān und Islam umfasst Einträge aus den Jahren 1694 bis 1974.
Die Gesamtbibliographie besteht aus vier Bänden und verzeichnet knapp zwanzigtausend Einträge aus den Jahren 1694 bis 2024 (plus Nachträge). Es folgen als zweiter Band Einträge aus den Jahren 1975 bis 2004 und als dritte Band Einträge aus den Jahren 2005 bis 2024.
Die Einträge sind konsequent chronologisch angeordnet und wurden sämtlich im Autopsie-Verfahren überprüft. Sie enthalten neben vollständigen Autornamen und Titeleinträgen detaillierte Informationen zum Gegenstand und zum Publikationsort. Sämtliche Einträge sind ins Deutsche übersetzt und kommentiert. Komplettiert werden Sie durch ein Register, das im vierten Band geliefert wird.
Diese Bibliographie stellt für die Forschung ein unverzichtbares Standardwerk dar.
The banishment and murder of Sheikh Said Barzanji who was the family head of Sadaat al-Barzanjiyya as the most influential religious organization of region, created a critical threshold in the history of Mosul. As the urban shootout on January 5 turned into a provincial bloodshed, Kurdish Sayyids, tribes and religious orders consolidated and revolted against the Ottoman authorities. Governors who were polarized as Anti Sâdât and Pro Sâdât allegedly misconducted their offices and misguided the authorities of law enforcement and judiciary.
By overcoming the historical rupture between Ottoman Mosul and Modern Iraq, the book introduces an analytical framework to associate the origins of collective violence and ethnic fragmentation experienced in today’s Iraq with the past.
The best way to behave in the cosmos, which according to the Islamic doctrine is constantly being created by Allah, is to renounce all selfish impulses and become friends with God. This volume analyzes what this means for both individual and society by looking at the writings of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʿrānī. It paints a unique picture of the Muslim worldview and method of coping with existence, the principles of which still apply today.
The idea that the world can be explained on the basis of itself is self-evident in European thinking and includes interpretations of being human. In Islam, it is different. The Quran announces Allah as the unremitting creator of the cosmos and human fate. By looking at numerous sources, the author shows how this truth of faith has been interpreted in the history of the Islamic understanding of the human.
Recentering the Sufi Shrine is a study of ritual, Sufi eschatology, and vernacular theopoetics of pilgrimage to Sufi shrines in the Indus region of Pakistan. The book examines the distinction between two different ritual contestations over pilgrimage to Sufi tombs: (1) an exposition of Ṭariqa-i Muhammadiyya’s millenarian Scripturalist reform of Sufism, and (2) Bulleh Shah’s (d. 1767) vernacular Sufism, a hard-hitting Sufi-poet of textual ("bookish") knowledge of religious scholars. This is the first work examining the legal theology of ritual intervention in using scripture to regulate the resurrected bodies of saints, on the one hand, and the ritual metaphysics of presence in understanding the significance and meaning of Sufi shrines, on the other.
In the last ten years, Islamic theology has established itself as a new subject at German universities. This volume examines the historical resources, the challenges, and the results generated from this process so far and situates them within the context of Islamic cultures of teaching and learning. The authors are Islamic studies scholars and Islamic theologists who enter into dialogue with each other in this volume.
Al-Māturīdī is one of Islam’s most significant theologians, and his intellectual impact continues to this day. Although his rational theology became influential and is of great theological significance, al-Māturīdī’s religious thought has received relatively little scholarly attention in the German-speaking context. This volume delves into the trajectory of al-Māturīdī’s thinking historically and systematically.
Thema der Monographie sind Genese, Aufbau und Methode des schiitischen Korankommentars al-Mīzān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān des iranischen Gelehrten ʻAllāma Saiyid Muḥammad Ḥusain Ṭabāṭabāʼī (gest. 1981). Obwohl sich al-Mīzān im Rahmen etablierter Traditionen der Koranexegese bewegt, vertritt er bei der Definition von tafsīr und taʼwīl eine spezifische, den herrschenden Lehrmeinungen diametral widersprechenden Auffassung.
This work focuses on two Islamic legal concepts, the “abode of Islam” (Dār Al-Islām) and the “domain of war” (Dār-Al-Arab). It starts from a chronological presentation of the history of these concepts from the time of early Islam. Based on this history, it then analyzes the opinions of contemporary Islamic legal scholars, and concludes with an overview of modern interpretations.
The complete transliteration and translation of the Cadi-Court minutes of Mārdin 247 and critical commentary on the text sources form the basis for the study of this Northern Mesopotamian city. Using statistical analytic methods, detailed case reviews, and brief prosopographies, the author reveals the 18th century micropolitical and micro-historical details of this multi-ethnic region.
The Work as-Sayr wa-s-sulūk by the Ottoman Arab Sufi Qāsim al-Khānī (d. 1697) on the doctrine of the soul and guidance of novices is one of the central and fundamental texts of its genre and is regarded as a key work on Sufi education and pedagogy in the Ottoman period. The author highlights the ideas and teachings promulgated in the 17th century Aleppine Sufi community.
Interwoven with this analysis are childhood memories and life stories recounted by the Pashto speakers interviewed by the author. All interviewees were ordinary people leading ordinary lives – traders, cobblers, tea boys, farmers and porters. Their stories provide a voice to the Pashto speaking migrants themselves and give the reader a fascinating insight into their lives.