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Students should understand the plurality discourse from an Islamic perspective. They will get to know different Muslim positions in handling various cultural truth claims. Classical teachings on religious diversity as well as contemporary concepts will be core-readings and will be analysed in a critical manner. Important Christian positions on religious plurality will be introduced and alluded to from an Islamic perspective.

Students are able to provide an original and critical analysis of historical and current texts, practical implications and various claims of truth. The comparative study of religions will be an additional perspective used in the course and help contextualizing the core issues of the course as well as developing a personal approach towards other religious traditions.  

Enhancement of the ability to approach interreligious dialogue-settings and -relations as well as interreligious learning from an Islamic perspective and handling of the relationship between ambiguity and cultural claim of truth within the Islamic discourse.

Lecture, groupsettings, conversation.

Written

Anawati, Georges C. (2014): Ich liebe die Muslime, weil sie Gott lieben. Aufforderungen zum Dialog. Freiburg, Br, Basel, Wien: Herder (Schriftenreihe der Georges-Anawati-Stiftung, Nr. 11).

Falaturi, Abdoldjavad (Hg.): Der Islam im Dialog. Aufsätze von Professor Abdoldjavad
Falaturi. 4. erweiterte Auflage: Islamische Wissenschaftliche Akademie.

Rahman, Fazlur (2009): Appendix II: The People of the Book and Diversity of Religion. In: ders.: Major Themes of the Qur'an. 2. Auflage: University of Chicago Press., S. 162-170.

Wassilios Klein (2005): Abu Rayhan al-Biruni und die Religionen. Eine interkulturelle Perspektive. Nordhausen: Bautz.

Sejdini, Zekirija (2015): Inmitten von Ambivalenzen im Islam. In: Maria Juen, Gunter Prüller-Jagenteufel, Johanna Rahner und Zekirija Sejdini (Hg.): Anders gemeinsam - gemeinsam anders? In Ambivalenzen lebendig kommunizieren. Ostfildern: Matthias Grünewald Verlag (Kommunikative Theologie, Bd. 18), S. 57–69.

Sejdini, Zekirija (2017): Interreligiöser Dialog aus muslimischer Perspektive. In: Franz Gmainer-Pranz/ Astrid Ingruber / Markus Ladstätter (Hg.): " ... mit Klugheit und Liebe" (nostra aetate 2). Dokumentation der Tagungen zur Förderung des interreligiösen Dialogs 2012-2015, S. 241–251.