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Stefan Reichmuth


Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichmuth teaches at the Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies at the University of Bochum.
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Jörn Rüsen


Prof. Dr. Jörn Rüsen is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Essen and Professor Emeritus at the Witten/Herdecke University.
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Aladdin Sarhan


Aladdin Sarhan is lecturer at the Department of Cultural Reflection, University of Witten/Herdecke. He is PhD candidate at the Department of Religious Studies/Chair of Islamic Studies, University of Erfurt.
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Stefan Reichmuth, Jörn Rüsen, Aladdin Sarhan (Ed.)

Humanism and Muslim Culture

Historical Heritage and Contemporary Challenges

1. Edition 2012
188 pages
ISBN 978-3-89971-937-6
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The papers of this volume move from the abstract scheme of an intercultural humanism of the future to concrete cultural expressions of humanism within the Muslim culture of different times up to the present. They concentrate on three issues. The first is related to contemporary attempts to develop a humanist and historical hermeneutics of the Qur’an and of Islamic history. The second discusses the humanist heritage and the humanitarian trends of Muslim religious and literary culture. The third highlights the discussion on Humanism and Islam as a topic within European identity politics, covering the role of this discussion for the history of Islamic Studies in Europe and America, and the contemporary polemics around Islam in the Netherlands. Taken together, the contributions of the volume attempt to provide the groundwork for an assessment of the roots and prospects of an intercultural humanism with respect to the Muslim world.

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