Manfred Sing
Biographic Data
| ID | 3699002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manfred Sing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manfred |
| FAMILY NAME | Sing |
| SIGNATURE | SING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz Institute of European History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8418-5692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Arab Liberal Thought in the Modern Age, written by Meir Hatina
The author of this work has previously published studies on Arab liberal discourse and co-edited a volume on liberal thought after 1967 and is therefore wellknown for his interest in the subject.1The new monograph focusses on liberal debates from the post-1967 crisis to the 2011 revolutions but it can also be read in part as a quintessence of the previous studies.The book's title is obviously inspired by Albert Hourani's 1962 classic Arabic Thoug…
Philosophie in der islamischen Welt. Band 4/1
International audience
Arabische Sozialismen
Where Do the Multi-Religious Origins of Islam Lie? A Topological Approach to a Wicked Problem
The revelation of Islam in Arabic, its emergence in the Western Arabian Peninsula, and its acquaintance with Biblical literature seem to be clear indications for Islam’s birthplace and its religious foundations. While the majority of academic scholarship accepts the historicity of the revelation in Mecca and Medina, revisionist scholars have started questioning the location of early Islam with increasing fervour in recent years. Drawing on the is…
Introduction
Multi-religious cohabitation bears immense social and political implications, since the question of how multi-religiosity should be organized has become a hotly debated topic all over Europe. Although religious diversity has turned into an everyday experience in many parts of the world today, a perception that understands conflict between religions as inevitable still holds sway and has maybe even grown stronger, especially after violent events s…
The Changing Landscapes of Cross-Faith Places and Practices
The present special issue of Entangled Religions has emerged from a conference about “Shared Sacred Places and Multi-Religious Space” that took place at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz in September 2016. As the title of the conference indicates, a main interest was to re-think the relation between place and space and between different religions. The conference took place in the framework of the IEG focus topic “Europe fro…
Towards a Multi-Religious Topology of Islam
Narratives of the origins, the history, and the present state of Islam always entail spatial claims. Accordingly, Islam emerged in the Arabian Peninsula, spread over its so-called heartlands, and became a world religion. A common understanding inscribes Islam onto the Orient and opposes it to Europe, the Occident, or the West. Such spatial claims are faced with fundamental challenges and epistemological shortcomings because neither Islam nor spac…
Dis/connecting Islam and terror
When Muslim individuals or groups perpetrate acts of violence, Muslim scholars are routinely required to condemn the ‘misuse’ of Quranic verses, and scholars of Islamic studies have to ‘explain’ the distant relation between classical jihad and modern terrorism. Most critics of an organization like the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS) refute a direct link between its violence and Islam. However, they paradoxically take this link seriously enough to discuss …
The Specters of Marx in Edward Said's Orientalism
Edward Said's Orientalism was not only an attack on Western scholarship and imperialism, but also on Marxism. Said depicted Karl Marx as yet another Orientalist, Marxism as a form of Western domination and Arab Marxism as an expression of Self-Orientalization. Said claimed to have surpassed Marxism and Marxists who were "blinded to the fact of imperialism". Said's ambivalent relation to Marxism has not been thoroughly studied until now although i…
Brothers in Arms
At the beginning of the 1980s, the idea of armed jihād against Israel was not only promoted by renegades from the Muslim Brothers in the Gaza strip, but also by former Maoists of Fatah in Lebanon. After the pull-out of most PLO-fighters from Beirut in 1982, a group around its spokesman Munīr Shafīq formed the Brigades of Islamic Jihad which were subsequently responsible for attacks in Israel. In a posthumously published booklet, two activists exp…
Sacred Law Reconsidered
People everywhere search for answers by using the resources of their traditions. They wish to do so in a legitimate way, and so they consult official institutions, specialists, and skilled individuals for their opinions; regardless of religious or cultural contexts, the common aim of these experts is to produce security, unity, and trust. Therefore, the norm‐finding processes in Islamic and Western contexts share fundamental similarities: the pro…
Brothers in Arms
At the beginning of the 1980s, the idea of armed jihād against Israel was not only promoted by renegades from the Muslim Brothers in the Gaza strip, but also by former Maoists of Fatah in Lebanon. After the pull-out of most PLO-fighters from Beirut in 1982, a group around its spokesman Munīr Shafīq formed the Brigades of Islamic Jihad which were subsequently responsible for attacks in Israel. In a posthumously published booklet, two activists exp…
Dis/connecting Islam and terror
When Muslim individuals or groups perpetrate acts of violence, Muslim scholars are routinely required to condemn the ‘misuse’ of Quranic verses, and scholars of Islamic studies have to ‘explain’ the distant relation between classical jihad and modern terrorism. Most critics of an organization like the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS) refute a direct link between its violence and Islam. However, they paradoxically take this link seriously enough to discuss …
Sacred Law Reconsidered
People everywhere search for answers by using the resources of their traditions. They wish to do so in a legitimate way, and so they consult official institutions, specialists, and skilled individuals for their opinions; regardless of religious or cultural contexts, the common aim of these experts is to produce security, unity, and trust. Therefore, the norm‐finding processes in Islamic and Western contexts share fundamental similarities: the pro…
Brothers in Arms
At the beginning of the 1980s, the idea of armed jihād against Israel was not only promoted by renegades from the Muslim Brothers in the Gaza strip, but also by former Maoists of Fatah in Lebanon. After the pull-out of most PLO-fighters from Beirut in 1982, a group around its spokesman Munīr Shafīq formed the Brigades of Islamic Jihad which were subsequently responsible for attacks in Israel. In a posthumously published booklet, two activists exp…
The Specters of Marx in Edward Said's Orientalism
Edward Said's Orientalism was not only an attack on Western scholarship and imperialism, but also on Marxism. Said depicted Karl Marx as yet another Orientalist, Marxism as a form of Western domination and Arab Marxism as an expression of Self-Orientalization. Said claimed to have surpassed Marxism and Marxists who were "blinded to the fact of imperialism". Said's ambivalent relation to Marxism has not been thoroughly studied until now although i…
Dis/connecting Islam and terror
When Muslim individuals or groups perpetrate acts of violence, Muslim scholars are routinely required to condemn the ‘misuse’ of Quranic verses, and scholars of Islamic studies have to ‘explain’ the distant relation between classical jihad and modern terrorism. Most critics of an organization like the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS) refute a direct link between its violence and Islam. However, they paradoxically take this link seriously enough to discuss …
Where Do the Multi-Religious Origins of Islam Lie? A Topological Approach to a Wicked Problem
The revelation of Islam in Arabic, its emergence in the Western Arabian Peninsula, and its acquaintance with Biblical literature seem to be clear indications for Islam’s birthplace and its religious foundations. While the majority of academic scholarship accepts the historicity of the revelation in Mecca and Medina, revisionist scholars have started questioning the location of early Islam with increasing fervour in recent years. Drawing on the is…
Introduction
Multi-religious cohabitation bears immense social and political implications, since the question of how multi-religiosity should be organized has become a hotly debated topic all over Europe. Although religious diversity has turned into an everyday experience in many parts of the world today, a perception that understands conflict between religions as inevitable still holds sway and has maybe even grown stronger, especially after violent events s…
The Changing Landscapes of Cross-Faith Places and Practices
The present special issue of Entangled Religions has emerged from a conference about “Shared Sacred Places and Multi-Religious Space” that took place at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz in September 2016. As the title of the conference indicates, a main interest was to re-think the relation between place and space and between different religions. The conference took place in the framework of the IEG focus topic “Europe fro…
Towards a Multi-Religious Topology of Islam
Narratives of the origins, the history, and the present state of Islam always entail spatial claims. Accordingly, Islam emerged in the Arabian Peninsula, spread over its so-called heartlands, and became a world religion. A common understanding inscribes Islam onto the Orient and opposes it to Europe, the Occident, or the West. Such spatial claims are faced with fundamental challenges and epistemological shortcomings because neither Islam nor spac…
Arabische Sozialismen
Arab Liberal Thought in the Modern Age, written by Meir Hatina
The author of this work has previously published studies on Arab liberal discourse and co-edited a volume on liberal thought after 1967 and is therefore wellknown for his interest in the subject.1The new monograph focusses on liberal debates from the post-1967 crisis to the 2011 revolutions but it can also be read in part as a quintessence of the previous studies.The book's title is obviously inspired by Albert Hourani's 1962 classic Arabic Thoug…
Philosophie in der islamischen Welt. Band 4/1
International audience
Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works) · Islam (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)