Abdoldjavad Falaturi

Abdoldjavad Falaturi (Persian عبدالجواد فلاطوري ʿ Abd -al- Ǧawād Falaturi; born January 19, 1926 in Isfahan, † December 30, 1996 in Berlin) was a German - Iranian scholar of Islam. In Germany he was particularly involved in the exploration of Shiite Islam and the Christian- Islamic dialogue.

Life

Falaturi laid in 1943 at a German -Persian school from his high school. Subsequently, he studied Islamic sciences ( Arabic literature, Islamic law, Islamic history, theology, logic, philosophy) at madrasas in Isfahan (two years), Tehran (two years), Mashhad (six years) and again Tehran ( another three years). After completing his studies with a Ijtihad degree in 1950 and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in 1954, he moved in 1954 to Germany, where he studied in Mainz, Cologne and Bonn Philosophy, Comparative Religion ( with Gustav Mensching ) and psychology as well as Greek and Latin. 1962 and 1964 doctorate Falaturi Gottfried Martin with a thesis on the interpretation of Kantian ethics in the light of respect.

While he worked on his habilitation, Falaturi taught at the Universities of Hamburg ( 1961-64 ) and Cologne ( 1964-1973 ), Persian and Islamic Studies. The Habilitation took place in 1973 with transformation of Greek philosophy by the Islamic way of thinking. From 1974 to 1991 he taught at the University of Cologne Islamic philosophy, theology and jurisprudence.

Falaturi was 1965-1975 instrumental in the establishment of the Shia Library at the Oriental Institute of the University of Cologne, whose foundation still fell in the time of the former seminar leader Erwin Graef and their line was continued after Falaturi by Werner Diem.

After the Islamic revolution in Iran Falaturi was one of the few Persian religious scholars who continue to remain in contact with the authorities of Al-Azhar University. So he became a member of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs of Al-Azhar University.

Falaturi in 1986 was a founding member of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, and in 1978 co-founded the Cologne " Islamic Scientific Academy for the Study of the interaction of Western history and culture" ( ISWA, 1997 resolved), which funded the Shia Library 1986-1992.

Falaturi founded the Cologne textbook analysis project that examined all approved textbooks from 1981 in Germany to their image of Islam through. 1988, this project was internationalized as Islam in Textbooks.

Appeared in 1991, edited by his long-time employee Udo Tworuschka Festschrift for Falaturi God is the Orient - God is the Occident. Festschrift for Abdoldjavad Falaturi on his 65th birthday ( = Cologne publications on the history of religion. 21) by Böhlau (Cologne and Vienna, 1991. ISBN 3-412-03790-7 ) with contributions by Angelika Neuwirth, Albrecht Noth, Serious Klingmüller, Axel Köhler, Jamal al Din Mohammad Mahmoud, Roswitha Badry, Smail Balic, Werner Ende, Ingrid Craemer Ruegenberg, Hans Daiber, Gerhard Endress, Egbert Meyer, Tilman Nagel, Bert G. Fragner, Ulrich Haarmann, Klaus Kreiser.

Falaturi suffered a heart attack in October 1996, the consequences of which he died three months later. He is buried in his hometown in the cemetery "Rose Garden of the Martyrs ". His literary estate is located in the Imam Ali Mosque of the Islamic Centre Hamburg.

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the death Falaturi took place on 27 and 28 April 2007 at the University of Cologne, an international meeting of scientists and representatives of Muslim organizations ( Udo Tworuschka, Reinhard Kirste, Mohamed Baqer Talgharizade, Nadeem Elyas, Ali Kızılkaya, Klaus Lefringhausen, Sabiha El -Zayat, Mohamed Heidari, Tariq Ramadan, Hortense Reintjes - Anwari, Shams Anwari, Kamran Amir Arjomand, Houaida Taraji, Ali Rahbar, Bekir Alboğa, Marco Scholler, Navid Kermani ) instead.

Publications (selection)

• For the interpretation of Kantian ethics in the light of respect. With an appendix. Groundwork for study to a general Kant dictionary. Bonn 1962.
• Introductory course in the Persian language in 20 lessons. German Foundation for Developing Countries, Centre for Cultural Studies, Bad Honnef 1971.
• AK Brohi, Erwin Graef, Reinhard May, Richard A. Debs, Farhat J. Ziadeh and Konrad Dilger: Contributions to Islamic legal thought ( = Studies on non-European legal theories Volume 2. ). Editors R. May F. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, Stuttgart 1986. ISBN 3-515-04474-4.
• Al- Islām ka- mā ʿ al - araḍathu kutub al - madrasīya ad dīnīya fī Ūrubbā. Islamic Academy of Sciences, Cologne 1990. ISBN 3-89108-007-7.
• Islam in religious education textbooks in Europe. Islamic Academy of Sciences, Cologne 1990. ISBN 3-89108-005-0.
• Muslim thoughts for teachers and textbook authors. Translated by Herbert Schultze. Islamic Academy of Sciences, Cologne 1990. 3-89108-006-9
• With Udo Tworuschka: Islam in the classroom. Contributions to intercultural education in Europe ( = Supplement to the studies of international textbook research). 2nd edition. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1992.
• Islam in the dialog. Essays. Fourth, expanded edition. Islamic Academy of Sciences, Cologne 1992. ISBN 3-89108-001-8.
• With Udo Tworuschka: A guide to the presentation of Islam in school textbooks ( = CSIC papers, Europe / Africa No. 8. . ). CSIC, Birmingham 1992. ISBN 0-946931-01-1.
• Western human rights concepts and Quran ( = Society of Muslim social sciences and humanities. Publication series. 10). GMSG, Cologne 2002. ISBN 3-937297-09- X.
• Dialogue between Christianity and Islam ( = Islamic Academy Germany. 1). 2nd edition. Islamic Academy Germany, Hamburg 2002, ISBN. 3-9808229-1-5.
• Islam. Religion of Rahma, of mercy. ( = Society of Muslim social sciences and humanities. Publication series. 14). GMSG, Cologne 2003. ISBN 3-937297-13-8.

• With Walter Strolz: belief in one God. Human experience of God in Christianity and Islam ( = Publications of the Oratio Dominica Foundation ). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, among others in 1975. ISBN 3-451-17363-8.
• Three paths to the one God. Experience of faith in the monotheistic religions ( = Publications of the Oratio Dominica Foundation ). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, among others in 1976. ISBN 3-451-17693-9.
• Hope for the future and hope of salvation in the monotheistic religions ( = Publications of the Foundation Oratio Dominica. Discussion of world religions. Band 9). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, among others in 1983. ISBN 3-451-19893-2.
• History of religion in public ( = Cologne publications on the history of religion. Volume 1). Böhlau, Cologne and Vienna, 1983. ISBN 3-412-04783- X.
• Islam in the textbooks of the Federal Republic of Germany ( = Studies on International Textbook Research ). 7 volumes. Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig and Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main, 1986-1990.
• Universal Fatherhood of God. Encounter of religions ( = Foundation Oratio Dominica. Discussion of world religions. Publication series to the big ecumenism. Band 14). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, among others in 1987. ISBN 3-451-21098-3.
• Catalogue of the library of Shi'ite literature in the Oriental Institute of the University of Cologne. Saur, Munich et al 1988. ISBN 3-598-10761-7.