Fatmas Altuntas-Ates

Verstehenstheorie im islamischen geistigen Erbe. Eine usulitische Studie im Lichte der allgemeinen Hermeneutik

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Marco Schöller

Alsayed Said Alrahmany

Vertrauenstheorie im islamischen Denken, eine usulitische Studie im Lichte der allgemeinen Hermeneutik

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer

Noureddine Boulouh

Faḍāʾil al-Qurʾān (Die Vorzüge des Korans)

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer

Kevser Erol

Die Beziehung zwischen den Staaten des Arabischen Frühlings und der Europäischen Union, im Besonderen Deutschland

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Marco Schöller

Kevser Erol M.A.
Doktorand
Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft

Schlaunstraße 2
48143 Münster

kevser.erol@uni-muenster.de

Lamis Fayed

Endzeitfiguren: Der Zusammenhang der apokalyptischen Texte der abbrahamitischen Religionen

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Marco Schöller, Co-Tutelle mit Prof. Giuseppe Veltri, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Uni Hamburg 

Nevine Fayek

Arabic Prose Poetry – a Path of its Own. A Revision of the Genre’s History. Reviewing Early Approaches to Prose Poetry from the Egyptian Press Archive of the 1930ies and 1940ies 

Betreuerin: AOR Dr. Barbara Winckler

Jens G. Fischer

Poesie und Politik. Arabische Herrscherlobdichtung als Medium politischer Kommunikation im postseldschukischen Nahen Osten.

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer

Falk Griemert

Kohäsion und Macht. Herrschaftsverständnis und politische Praxis in der islamischen Geschichte.

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Marco Schöller

Rokhshana Khorosh

Deobandi-Schulen in Indien 

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Marco Schöller

Natalie Kraneiß

Samir Mubayd

Šihāb ad-Dīn Ibn Faḍlallāh und seine literarischen Briefe 

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer

Kamil Öktem

Diskurs und Diskursanalyse in der sunnitischen Koranexegese (tafsīr) – Faḫr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī (gest. 1210) im Spannungsfeld exegetischer Polemiken. Übersetzung und Analyse des sprachbezogenen ersten Kapitels der Einführung des Tafsīr al-kabīr

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer

Yvonne Prief

Institutionen des islamischen Rechts in Europa. Islamische Mediation und Schiedsgerichtbarkeit in Großbritannien

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Norbert Oberauer

Tobias Sick

DFG-Teilprojekt: Innerislamischer Wissenstransfer im Osmanischen Reich: Zu Übersetzungen islamischer Mystik im Rahmen transregionaler Sufinetzwerke in den anatolischen und osmanischen Provinzen

Betreuer: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Philip Bockholt

Thomas Thiemann

Kranksein in der arabisch-islamischen Kultur

Betreuerin: Prof. Dr. Syrinx von Hees

Stephan Tölke

Ibn Nubāta's Fürstenspiegel Sulūk duwal al-mulūk: How secular could political thought be in the Mamluk period

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer, Prof. Dr. Marco Schöller

Ibn Nubāta al-Miṣrī's (1287-1366) Fürstenspiegel Sulūk duwal al-mulūk bears witness to an aspect of his literary legacy which to this day has been largely neglected by scholars studying political thought in the Islamic world. This comes as a surprise, since he was one of the first Islamic political theorists who, in his conceptions of 'ideal rule', shifted from a theocentric to an anthropocentric model. Ibn Nubāta's treatise is part of a long tradition of mirrors for princes, but breaks with the basic motif of the moral and pious ruler. This is done so overtly that one would expect his contemporaries and later generations to have refuted, or at least criticised, his political views, but nothing of the sort is known. This leads us to the central question of this paper: How secular could political thought be in the Mamluk period?

By exploring the treatise's general conception of 'ideal rule', I will attempt to answer the following questions: How is an 'ideal ruler' described and legitimized? What role does religion play in this conception? Is it appropriate to speak of a secular approach towards politics in the case of Ibn Nubāta?

Camilla Zeidan

Deutsche Zugänge zum Islam. Textuelle Rezeption und Islamverständnis von Konvertitinnen

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Marco Schöller

Mohammed Al-Hroot

Die Bedeutung der populären isomorphen Vokabeln für den Arabischunterricht als Fremdsprache 

Katharina Müller

Die jungen Kosmopoliten. Eine Analyse zeitgenössischer türkischer Literatur von Esmahan Aykul, Asli Erdoğan und Elif Şafak unter dem Aspekt der kulturellen Globalisierung 

Raid Al-Daghistani

Die Epistemologie des Herzens. Erkenntnisaspekte der islamischen Mystik

Suayip Seven

Die traditionelle Hadith-Hermeneutik im Angesicht der modernen Ansätze der Ankaraner Schule

Sami Al-Daghistani

The Concept of Maslaha and economic justice in Islam 

Ursula Paszehr

Die Totenklage in Jordanien. Dimensionen und Funktionen 

Svantje Bartschat

Islamische Tradition und Dschihad, dargestellt anhand der arabischen Textgattung von Hadîth-Anthologien

Cüneyd Yıldırım

Sufismus und Modernität - Muḥammad Nūr al-ʿArabī in seiner Zeit

Lars Marcus Petrisson

Writing as Re-enchantment - Mystical Currents in the Contemporary Arabic and Turkish Novel

Against the backdrop of the political unrest and rapid societal cataclysm that currently occur in the Arab world and Turkey, the multifaceted regional discourses on Identity gain contemporary relevance. Ever since the outbreak of Arab Spring in 2011 the oppressive, authoritarian political models, omnipresent in Near Eastern societies, are increasingly suffering difficulties to legitimate their power. Violation of democracy and human rights in the name of political stability appears to be a no longer valid argument. Furthermore, cultural, societal and even religious dogmas are being questioned at a progressive rate. For a more profound understanding of the mechanisms fostering present-day developments, a closer look at the vivid literary debates on Identity in the Arab world and Turkey are beneficial and eligible. A recurring theme in these debates has been the contrasting juxtaposition between European modernity and local cultural tradition. Is total rejection of the own past necessary to become true modernists? If not, how can one relate to tradition, avoiding taking a forfeited, reactionary position?

This thesis will examine the revival of Islamic mysticism, a significant cornerstone to both cultural traditions, in the contemporary Arabic and Turkish novel. To what extend could the turn to Islamic mysticism in both Near Eastern literatures be seen as a process of critical Self-examination? Is the appropriation of mystical language, tropes and philosophy by contemporary Arabic and Turkish literati an attempt to reconcile with the past and overcome cultural paradoxes? Or is this phenomenon rather to be seen as a regional manifestation of a postmodern “Re-enchantment” that, aligned with critics of modernity such as Weber, Heidegger and T.S Eliot, seek to heal a disenchanted world and provide endowment with meaning to the present?

These questions will be examined on the basis of a selected number of contemporary Arabic and Turkish novels. Departing from the chosen examples, a picture is drawn where mysticism forms a main source of literary inspiration and becomes a mode to establish continuity with the past. Islamic mysticism is in this context not solely a passively transmitted cultural artifact; it quite the contrary becomes a mayor instrument to construct Identity and meaning to a post-industrial society. In this respect the act of writing becomes prayer of a sort; storytelling enables the Self to rest from the dreary political realities of authoritarian modernist ideologies. Thus, writing, in contrast to reason-driven, materialist, modernity becomes meaningful, enables the Self to connect with something beyond immanent reality; in one word, writing becomes “re-enchantment”. In this context, the turn to mysticism paradoxically enables the contemporary Arabic and Turkish novel to merge with universalism and world literature.

Keywords: Islamic Mysticism, Arabic-Turkish, Contemporary Novel, Re-enchantment, Identity, Endowment with meaning, Universalism

Lars Marcus Petrisson M.A.
Doktorand
Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft

Schlaunstraße 2
48143 Münster

marcuspetrisson@hotmail.com

Ulrike Qubaja

Conflict resolution in Palestinian societies – Empirical study on the institution of Ṣulḥ in the context of legal pluralism

Iyad Shraim

Klon-Mensch in der Literatur. Ein literarischer Interdiskurs im deutschen und arabischen Raum

Rana Siblini

The Psychology of Estrangement and Nostalgia in Classical Arabic Literature