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Fuat Sezgin and The Re-writing of The History of Geography

Detlev Quintern

Introduction When writing his comprehensive oeuvre “Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums” (History of Arabic Writings) in …

Prof. Mehmet Görmez: Today, for Muslims, morality is a matter of survival

Muslim intellectual

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Görmez describes the deep political crisis in the Islamic world as a “crisis of reason and will” and emphasizes that the most important issue facing Muslims today is “moral existence.”

Introduction to the History of the Perception of Islam in the West – 1

Prof. Dr. İbrahim Kalın

The first part of our study will focus on how Islam was initially perceived by Christian theologians, first in the East and then in Europe, as a religious heresy. The roots of common views such as Islam being a religion of the sword, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) being a violent figure, and the Qur’an being a meaningless theological text all go back to this period.

On The Victim, the Enemy and The Genocide

Dr. Mustafa Ekici

Zionism, as a highly controversial attempt to create a homogeneous nation from an ethnic multi diversity that not rests on historical reality but only myths and folk tales. A gathered community of fugitives, who have never established a connection with the land throughout history and weirds that have never been neighbors to anyone, can only find shelter in myths, not in the history. They attempt to exist by breathing life into a stoned corpse on the lands where they can not take root.

Politics and Morality

Prof. Dr. Erol Göka

The idea that life itself is politics and that the struggle between good and evil is constantforms the foundation of Carl Schmitt’s political philosophy. On the other hand, the notion thatmorality precedes human existence, that the ‘other’ is an essential element in the constructionof the self, that it stands before us even before we establish our own identity, and that the‘other’ essentially signifies morality constitutes the core of Emanuel Levinas’ moral philosophy.

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Fuat Sezgin and The Re-writing of The History of Geography

Introduction When writing his comprehensive oeuvre “Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums” (History of Arabic Writings) in …

Prof. Mehmet Görmez: Today, for Muslims, morality is a matter of survival

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Görmez describes the deep political crisis in the Islamic world as a “crisis of reason and will” and emphasizes that the most important issue facing Muslims today is “moral existence.”