{"title":"Secularization — the Return of Religions - Post-secularism","authors":"H. Zinser","doi":"10.53100/ttrnn212ujgfg_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53100/ttrnn212ujgfg_3","url":null,"abstract":"In his contribution, Hartmut Zinser views the processes of secularization within European or so-called Western societies, which have mainly taken place since the Enlightenment, through the lens of the sociology of religion. Starting from a definition of the profane and the sacred, he considers the historical \"transition of sacralized objects into a secular use\" and then explains why the so-called \"secularization thesis\", which assumes \"an increasing replacement of the meaning of religion as a universal historical process,\" today cannot be considered valid anymore and is finished. But what consequences does this have for a modern, post-secular society as religions leave the \"private\" sphere, regain the public space and aspire again to social participation? Zinser approaches this question in the last chapter of his essay, where he also deals with the position of Jürgen Habermas in this regard.","PeriodicalId":442275,"journal":{"name":"The Turn - Zeitschrift für islamische Philosophie, Theologie und Mystik","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122750378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How is the “burhan of God” expressed in Q 12:24? — A linguistic and exegetical analysis of the word “burhān” on the basis of classical Islamic compilations","authors":"Maassouma Dabbous","doi":"10.53100/ttrnn212ujgfg_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53100/ttrnn212ujgfg_7","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of Yūsuf’s story and the meeting of Yūsuf and Zulaiḫā, the author searches for the secret behind the word “burhan” in Q 12:24. In doing so, she first of all explores the etymological and lexical meanings of this word before approaching the Qur'anic concept. Which \"sign\" of God did the Prophet Yūsuf actually receive in order to resist the seduction of Zulaiḫā? The author discusses this with the help of three different Qur’an commentaries, which also give each their own answers.","PeriodicalId":442275,"journal":{"name":"The Turn - Zeitschrift für islamische Philosophie, Theologie und Mystik","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131273941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In view of the absurd","authors":"Timotheus Schneidegger","doi":"10.53100/ttrnnjvnbcjb_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53100/ttrnnjvnbcjb_5","url":null,"abstract":"The author outlines the idea of the “revolt”, which was defined metaphysically by the writer and philosopher Albert Camus, and applies this theory to the Islamic Revolution in 1979 in Iran. Camus develops an “ethics of solidarity and revolution” against the destiny of humankind which shows how the postmodern inner void can be overcome. This philosophic theory starts with the experiences of the “absurd”, which arises from the discrepancy between the human demand and the earthly reality. The humankind possesses a metaphysical hunger after meaning, which cannot be sated by the world. This leads to a feeling of strangeness, which acts as the basis of the “revolt”, since one cannot find the expected harmony and satisfaction. The author considers the Islamic Revolution promising to re-establish the holy and giving a new meaning of life to the people. He sees this event as an example of history repeating itself, where the searching after meaning is like the labor of Sisyphus.","PeriodicalId":442275,"journal":{"name":"The Turn - Zeitschrift für islamische Philosophie, Theologie und Mystik","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124994875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The tortoise trainer","authors":"Akin E. Şipal","doi":"10.53100/ttrnnjvnbcjb_6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53100/ttrnnjvnbcjb_6","url":null,"abstract":"The author observes a painting of Osman Hamdi Bey about a tortoise trainer, an Ottoman dervish with a bamboo flute. This picture prompts the author for personal reflections about his grand-grandfather, who had to flee in 1918 because of the British invasion in Istanbul. For Rumi the bamboo flute is a symbol of the human being detached from his roots. That feeling of detachment and painful desire for his origin is the main subject of the author. He refers to Walter Benjamin, who described the European flaneurs as searchers without an earthly purpose and compared them with oriental Sufis who search for God. The desire of the author for his roots reveals itself also in his representation of the Ottoman Empire, which is linked to the fortune of his grand-grandfather, who had to give up his life due to the beginning of a new era. Nevertheless, behind all the pain which is caused by every separation, which might be senseless to us, hope, sense and reconciliation arise: “Flaneurs are those sensitive souls exiled by the postmodern who can acquire a sweet taste from all the constituent pain, because they see a universal reality in them.”","PeriodicalId":442275,"journal":{"name":"The Turn - Zeitschrift für islamische Philosophie, Theologie und Mystik","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134525896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mīr Dāmād and the school of Isfahan — the unity and difference of philosophy, kalām and tradition","authors":"Sedigheh Khansari Mousavi","doi":"10.53100/ttrnn212ujgfg_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53100/ttrnn212ujgfg_5","url":null,"abstract":"Sedigheh Khansari Mousavi illustrates how theology and philosophy do not necessarily have to be opposites, and can even mutually condition each other, using the example of Mīr Dāmād, who is considered one of the most important representatives of the school of Isfahan. His work al-Īqāẓāt serves as an opportunity to revisit and discuss the Kalam, which led debate about the \"theory of action\" and the \"chain of causality\". Like Mīr Dāmād who in his treatise on the question of human actions and their causes, the author by means of a detailed structural analysis demonstrates that the revelation (waḥy) and understanding reason ('aql) are perfectly compatible with one another.","PeriodicalId":442275,"journal":{"name":"The Turn - Zeitschrift für islamische Philosophie, Theologie und Mystik","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122440827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is desire?","authors":"H. Yousefi","doi":"10.53100/ttrnnjvnbcjb_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53100/ttrnnjvnbcjb_3","url":null,"abstract":"The searching after meaning arises from a deep desire of mankind. The question “What is desire?” is answered by various artists and thinkers who significantly shaped and developed intellectual history. Desire has been considered and defined differently during the various ages, whether as an attempt to compensate for a personal deficit or as a feeling of being drawn towards the opposite gender. This article also looks at the eras of Enlightenment and Romanticism, covering not only the understanding of desire, but also the different forms of expression used to treat the question of desire: for Example in the painting entitled “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” (translated into English) by Caspar David Friedrich and the symbol of “The Blue Flower” in the painting of Phillip Otto Runge, but also the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, we can see that the feeling of desire has continuously evolved. It arises from the soul of a primal desire which is the engine of all the creative activities.","PeriodicalId":442275,"journal":{"name":"The Turn - Zeitschrift für islamische Philosophie, Theologie und Mystik","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133791952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"At the limit of meaning","authors":"M. Esfahani","doi":"10.53100/ttrnnjvnbcjb_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53100/ttrnnjvnbcjb_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article concentrates on an entity that for many is the highest form of sense, namely God. Assuming that God is endless, the author asks what can be known about such an eternity and which epistemological consequences go along with such an experience of God. By taking up the verse in the Koran (57:4): “He is with you, wherever you are”, the author shows that the infinity of God is nothing far away or abstract. It is rather the penetration of everything. A flower, for example, not only shows itself in its finitude but also testifies with its existence to the infinity of God and thus points a way to God. The more one tries to fathom the given signs, the more the divine infinity manifests itself. Therefore, if sense is equated with finitude, the alleged nonsensicality of the infinite in fact has its own sense in the finite creature.","PeriodicalId":442275,"journal":{"name":"The Turn - Zeitschrift für islamische Philosophie, Theologie und Mystik","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130524762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Madness of growth","authors":"Marc Hieronimus","doi":"10.53100/ttrnnjvnbcjb_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53100/ttrnnjvnbcjb_2","url":null,"abstract":"The progress of technology is considered by the majority as a reasonable endeavor. Nevertheless, the author tries to show that technological progress, in spite of its benefits, causes a variety of absurd dangers because of its uncontrolled growth. The author introduces the leading thinkers of a movement known as “Decroissance” which argues for a “philosophy of degrowth”. Degrowth means the undoing of technological growth and demands an end of its philosophy of “faster, wider, higher and more”. A destructive power can be seen in this, causing overexploitation in nature as well as the annihilation of humankind, not just by the machinery of war. Indeed, in view of the ecological and economical crises of our time, such as species extinction, the contaminations of the soil, the air and the sea, climate change and its impact on many societies, military conflicts due to scarce resources, then a return to more simplicity, frugality and reserve seems quite reasonable and absolutely essential in order to put an end to the madness. Hence the idea of “Decroissance” is quite relevant today and this article gives an instructive overview.","PeriodicalId":442275,"journal":{"name":"The Turn - Zeitschrift für islamische Philosophie, Theologie und Mystik","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129044143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sprachwissenschaft und Theologie (kalām) als exegetische Prämisse und Verstehenskontext in dem Korankommentar at-Tafsīr al-kabīr des Faḫr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī am Beispiel der Gottesschau in Q 6:103","authors":"Kamil Öktem","doi":"10.53100/ttrnn212ujgfg_4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53100/ttrnn212ujgfg_4","url":null,"abstract":"What significance does linguistics have for the discipline of Qur’an exegesis? Kamil Öktem takes up this question in his essay on ar-Rāzī's Qur'an commentary and gives an overview of the various hermeneutic approaches and definitions of this Islamic discipline. He shows in the case study of the divine vision in Paradise (ru'yat Allāh), which is discussed in Q 6:103, how ar-Rāzī in his Qur'an commentary at-Tafsīr al-kabīr applies theological and linguistic knowledge. After a detailed methodical examination of ar-Rāzī’s interpretation of Q 6:103, he concludes that, on the one hand, \"linguistics were a very important and functionally crucial element in the early Qur’an exegesis\" and, on the other hand, that there is great scope for interpretation in the theological discussions taking place in the Kalām discussions.","PeriodicalId":442275,"journal":{"name":"The Turn - Zeitschrift für islamische Philosophie, Theologie und Mystik","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117182265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aggiornamento oder Irrelevanz","authors":"L. Richter-Bernburg","doi":"10.53100/ttrnnjvnbcjb_4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53100/ttrnnjvnbcjb_4","url":null,"abstract":"By means of the three questions “what can I know, what shall I do, what may I hope”, which can be traced back to Immanuel Kant, this article highlights the role of religion concerning in generating meaning and questions its exclusive claim to truth. Especially when dealing with the written religious heritage the author sees the need for a critical self-questioning on the part of the religions in view of an awareness of empirical as well as historical human sciences. The author calls for the “self-historicization” and a “humanized enclosure” of the religions. For this purpose, it is necessary to critically analyze the texts and traditions and be willing to say farewell to outdated traditions and interpretations in order to be open for the future of new exegesis, which satisfies the scientific demand. The author takes up a much-discussed Islamic tradition in order to show that Kant’s categorical imperative has also to be applied to religious issues.","PeriodicalId":442275,"journal":{"name":"The Turn - Zeitschrift für islamische Philosophie, Theologie und Mystik","volume":"45 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127573943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}