Murad wilfried hofmann, ursprunglich wilfried hofmann 6. Volume 22 issue 3 journal of islamic studies oxford. Murad wilfried hofmann born 1931 in aschaffenburg, germany is a german diplomat and author. Islam expanded into formerly christian territoriesthe near east, north africa, spain, byzantium, the balkanswithout eliminating the christian communities. Shaykh abdal hakim murads book recommendations splendid. Murad wilfried hofmann is a prominent muslim german expert on islam and author of several books, including journey to islam. Wissenschaftliche buchgesellschaft, darmstadt 2007, isbn 9783534204595 arabisch. His university education began in 1950 at union college in schenectady, n. Diary of a german diplomat,journey to makkah and islam. From germany we can count murad wilfried hofmann, a diplomat and writer. Many of his books and essays focus on islams place in the west. Jqs publishes articles both in english and arabic, to encourage the bridging of the gap between the two traditions of muslim.
Arabisch deutsch murad wilfried hofmann, max henning isbn. Reading list of timothy winterabdul hakim murad islam. Timothy winterabdul hakim murad june 22, 2017 july 19, 2017 abdullah hindi 2 comments tim winterabdul hakim murad is the shaykh zayed lecturer in islamic studies, director of studies, wolfson college at cambridge university. He has authored several books on islam, including journey to makkah isbn 091595785x and islam. Jahrtausend eine religion im aufbruch by hofmann, murad wilfried. Anmerkungen 1diese orientiert sich nach weisung des 2. Islamische toleranz im konflikt konzeptionen eines umstrittenen. Winter has written about the interaction between islam and secular issues spanning a wide range. The journal of islamic studies is a multidisciplinary publication dedicated to the scholarly study of all aspects of islam and of the islamic world. He graduated from union college in new york and completed his legal studies at munich university where he received a doctorate in jurisprudence in 1957. Eliot as the most impressive writer in the field of comparative religion he had ever encountered.
Universitatsdrucke gottingen, gottingen 2007 pdfdatei. Islamic political thought, with its highly sophisticated yet eminently readable treatments of every major theme within the topical domain of its title, is a highly valuable contribution to the literature on islam and politics. Since mohammeds transmission of the revelation is taken to be perfect, the koran is considered by all muslims to be the perfect exact words of allah. Oxford university press is a department of the university of oxford. He has authored several books on islam, including journey to makkah and islam. From the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, some sixty thousand muslim tatars originally living in the golden horde territory and the crimea emigrated to the. List of translations of the quran project gutenberg self.
Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books you. Alazami takes lesters article as a starting point for carrying edward saids critique of orientalism right into the camp of western quranic studies, painstakingly revealing its biases, double standards, arrogance. Hofmann was born a catholic, but converted to islam in 1980, while serving in the german foreign service as a specialist on. Murad wilfried hofmann 1931 january 2020 was a german diplomat and author. Salman the persian translated the first chapter of the quran, alfatiha, from arabic to persian. The author has presented the dual subject of islam and quran in a most nonpartisan and reliable manner.
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