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Reflections on (In)Humanity Volume 2 Edited by Sorin Antohi, Chun-ChiehHuangand Jörn Rüsen AssistantEditors:StefanJordan(München),MariusTurda(Oxford) EditorialBoard:AzizAl-Azmeh(Budapest),DipeshChakrabarty (Chicago),PumlaGobodo-Madizikela(CapeTown),YehudaElkana (Jerusalem/Berlin),MosheIdel(Jerusalem),OliverKozlarek(Morelia), GraziaMarchian(cid:253)(Montepulciano),JuttaScherrer(Paris/Berlin), HaydenWhite(SantaCruz),ZhangLongxi(HongKong) Stefan Reichmuth / Jörn Rüsen / Aladdin Sarhan (eds.) Humanism and Muslim Culture Historical Heritage and Contemporary Challenges V&R unipress National Taiwan University Press ThisbookseriesissponsoredbytheBerendelFoundation. PublishedincooperationwiththeInstituteforAdvancedStudiesinHumanities andSocialSciences,NationalTaiwanUniversity. BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableintheInternetathttp://dnb.d-nb.de. ISBN978-3-89971-937-6[Print,withoutAsiaPacific] ISBN978-986-03-1650-6[Print,AsiaPacificonly] ISBN978-3-86234-937-1[E-Book] (cid:211)Copyright2012byV&RunipressGmbH,D-37079Goettingen (cid:211)Copyright2012byNationalTaiwanUniversityPress,Taipei,Taiwan Allrightsreserved,includingthoseoftranslationintoforeignlanguages.Nopartofthisworkmay bereproducedorutilizedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronicormechanical,including photocopying,microfilmandrecording,orbyanyinformationstorageandretrievalsystem, withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublisher. Coverimage:(cid:211)bildarchivpreussischerkulturbesitz,No.00092562,bpk/Museumfürislamische Kunst,SMB/GeorgNiedermeiser.KalligraphischesSchmuckblatt Page2:EngravingbyJohannHeinrichMeyerforthetitlepageofJohannGottfriedHerder, BriefezurBeförderungderHumanität In grateful memoryofNasr Hamid Abu Zayd (d. 5 July 2010) and Mohammed Arkoun(d. 14 September 2010) Contents StefanReichmuth/JörnRüsen/AladdinSarhan 1.Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 StefanReichmuth/JörnRüsen/AladdinSarhan 2.HumanismandMuslimCulture:HistoricalHeritageand ContemporaryChallenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 PartI:AhumanisthermeneuticsofIslam? StefanWild 3.TheConceptofManintheQur’an.Non-MuslimPerspectives . . . . . 27 NasrHamidAbuZayd 4.RethinkingtheQur’an:TowardsaHumanisticHermeneutics . . . . . 39 MohammedArkoun 5.TheVicissitudesofEthicsinIslamicThought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 PartII:DebatesonhumanistelementsinIslamicculture RenateWürsch 6.HumanismandMysticism–InspirationsfromIslam . . . . . . . . . . 89 HinrichBiesterfeldt 7.ThePerfectMan–aHumanist? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 StefanReichmuth 8.HumanisminIslambetweenMysticismandLiterature . . . . . . . . . 115 MichaelKreutz 9.UnderstandingtheOther:TahaHusaynonReasonandIndividualism . 127 8 Contents PartIII:HumanismandIslaminEuropeanidentitypolitics: GermanandDutchcases BirgitSchäbler 10.Humanism,Orientalism,Modernity:ACritique . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 MichaelKemper 11.TheCracksinCivilizations:TheDutchPublicDiscourseon HumanismandIslam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 AbouttheContributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 IndexofNames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 IndexofPlaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Stefan Reichmuth/Jörn Rüsen/Aladdin Sarhan 1. Foreword Thebackgroundofthisbookwasaninternationalsymposiumon“Humanismin Islam:AnInter-CulturalDiscourse”,heldfrom6to8April2009inAlexandria, Egypt. This event was among the international conferences convened by the project“HumanismintheEraofGlobalisation–AnInterculturalDialogueon Humanity,CultureandValues”oftheInstituteforAdvancedStudy intheHu- manities (KWI), Essen, Germany. It was held in cooperation with the Goethe InstituteAlexandriaattheBibliothecaAlexandrinainEgypt. WewouldliketothankDanielStoevesandt,MariamShalanandtheteamof theGoetheInstituteAlexandriafortheirconstructiveandprolificcooperation. WealsothankourhostsinEgypt,theBibliothecaAlexandrina,inparticularits director, Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Ambassador Hagar Islambouly, Dr. Mohsen Youssef and his team, who provided us with the representative rooms of the BibliothecaAlexandrinaasavenuefortheconferenceandalsohelpedwiththe organizationalprocesses. WearegratefultoAslıAymaz,AngelikaWulffandIainSinclairforassistance incopy-editingthemanuscriptandseeingittoprint. Lastbutnotleast,wewishtoexpressourgratitudetotheKWIinEssenforthe excellentfacilitieswhichitofferedfortherunningofsuchanambitiousresearch project;totheMercatorFoundationinEssen,whichfundedandpromotedthe Humanism Project for four years; andto the Seminar ofOriental and Islamic StudiesattheRuhrUniversityofBochumforitscontributiontothefundingof thisbook. Essen,November2011 StefanReichmuth,JörnRüsen,AladdinSarhan

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