Muhammad Shahrur

Muhammad Shahrur ( born April 11, 1938 in Damascus ) is a Syrian- Arab Engineering and Islamic intellectuals and reconnaissance. He has published numerous books on Islam, and is considered representative of the modernist Islam.

Life

Shahrur completed his school education from 1949 to 1957 in Damascus. In 1959 he traveled to the study of the subject civil engineering to Moscow and graduated in 1964 with diploma. From 1965 to 1968 he had a position at the University of Damascus. In 1968 he went to study in Dublin. In 1969 he obtained there the degree of Master and PhD in 1972. During the same year he became a lecturer at the University of Damascus. A year later he opened an engineering office.

His first book on Islam was entitled Al- Kitaab wa ʾ l ʾ ān -Qur: Qira 'a Mu ʿ ASIRA ( The Scriptures and the Koran - A modern interpretation). The book came in the Arabic-speaking world with great interest. The Economist spoke on June 5, 1993 by a "publication phenomenon". However Shahrur was also attacked by representatives of traditional Islam.

Thinking

After Shahrur the Koran contains the absolute truth. This truth is timeless and valid everywhere. For humans, this truth is only partially detected and interpretations must therefore be accessible. In particular, the hadd punishment does not grasp Shahrur as the commandments of God, but - with recourse to the original meaning of the word - as a limit of what could be regarded as justified under certain conditions. Draconian penalties for theft sariqa are therefore no longer binding. This approach is also described as " boundaries " theory.

Publications

  • Al- Kitaab wa ʾ l ʾ ān -Qur: Qira 'a Mu ʿ ASIRA. . Damascus 1990 ( The Scriptures and the Koran - A modern interpretation )
  • Dirasat al - Islamiyya al -Mu ʿ ASIRA fi ʾ d- Dawla wa ʾ l - ʿ Mudschtama a ( Contemporary Islamic Studies on State and Society)
  • Al- Islām wa ʾ l - iman ( faith and Islam )
  • Naḥwa Usul Jadida li ʾ l - Fiqh al -Islami. Fiqh al -mar ʾ a. Damascus 2000 ( Off to New Roots of Islamic jurisprudence - jurisprudence and women)
  • Tadschfīf Manabi ʿ al - Irhāb ( dehydration of the sources of terrorism)
  • Andreas Christmann (ed.): The Qur'an, Morality and Critical Reason. The Essential Muhammad Shahrur. Brill, Leiden / Boston, 2009.
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