Is Islam part of Germany? Professors of Islamic Studies from Bochum and Kiel give scientific explanations in their essay “Islam in the offside? : An answer to Alexander Dobrindt from the perspective of Islamic Studies”.
Virtual Library
Al- Qurʾān al-karīm – handwritten Quran from 1599
Al- Qurʾān al-karīm – a handwritten copy of the Quran from 1599 has been digitized for our open access collection MENAdoc and is now available online.… Read more
Open Access: Historia Saracenica
“Taʾrīḫ al-muslimīn min ṣāḥib šarīʿat al-islām Abi-ʾl-Qāsim Muḥammad ila ʾd-daula al-atābikīya … Id Est, Historia Saracenica” is now availabe in our open access collection MENAdoc.
The autor George Elmacin (also known as Ibn al-‘Amid, 1205–1273) was a Coptic Christian, … Read more
Open Access: Das Opferfest (ʿīd al-aḍḥā) im heutigen Ägypten
Islamkundliche Untersuchungen Volume 215
The Egyptian-born author Mohammed Rashed dedicates his book to the Feast of the Sacrifice in his homeland. In addition to the theoretical and religious foundations, Rashed focuses on the practice of the Egyptian Eid al-Adha today.… Read more
Open Access: Mehmed the Conqueror
Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time : World Striker at a Turning Point in History
The German biography of Mehmed II by Franz Babinger, 1959 is now availabe in our open access collection MENAdoc.
The classic standard work on … Read more
Open Access: Geschichte und Entwicklung der modernen persischen Literatur
“History and Development of Modern Persian Literature” by Bozorg Alavi written in 1964 is now available in our open access collection MENAdoc.
Professor Alavi describes the evolution of Persian prose and poetry since the beginning of the 20th century … Read more
Open Access: Der islamische Orient zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft
The Islamic Orient between past and future – a historical theological analysis of Islam in world affairs from 1960 by Walther Braune is now available in our open access collection MENAdoc.… Read more