Master of Arts in Contemporary Islamic Studies

Can we imagine a future for politics in Egypt without liberals and liberalism? Egypt’s political community is diverse and pluralistic, with competing and overlapping presences across liberal, Islamic, Arab nationalist, and socialist persuasions, to name a few. The liberal stream needs to remain an integral part of Egypt’s political and social landscape.

In diesem Kapitel wird ein neuer Ansatz zur Untersuchung des Zusammen hangs zwischen säkularer Politik und

This contribution addresses the extent to which the cultural – mainly Christian-Protestant – underlay to the concept of religion which became hegemonic in the 19th century has made its way into European law, shaping how religious freedom rights of Muslims are defined today. I begin by describing studies that examine the nexus between freedom of religion and the normativity of the concept of religion.

The importance of Islamic non-binding opinions, or fatwas, for scholarly research is now well-established. Perceiving the

This article examines the kind of expertise that is provided by

That Arabic ever became a language of translation is one of the peculiar quirks of history, as it began life as the youngest member of the Semitic family of languages and was confined to its homeland of the Arabian Peninsula.

The role of philosophy in the thought of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī has been a source of much debate among scholars of Islamic intellectual history and among