Gerdien Jonker
Biographic Data
| ID | 654599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerdien Jonker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerdien |
| FAMILY NAME | Jonker |
| SIGNATURE | JONKER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Nietzschean tafsīr for Nazi Germany
This contribution traces the history of the German Qur'an edition published by the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’at-e-Islam Lahore (Lahore-Ahmadiyya) in Berlin in 1939. Maulvi Sadr-ud-Dīn, the Lahore-Ahmadiyya missionary who erected the first mosque in Berlin, fashioned the translation. To reach out to a German audience gearing up for war, he entrusted his Berlin collaborator, the philosopher Hugo Marcus, with the details of the commentary. The narrativ…
Religious Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800-1945
This contributed volume takes into view Indian culture in Germany from the start of the Kaiserreich to National Socialism. This is an open access book
Overviewing a Century. The Lahore-Ahmadiyya Mosque Archive in Berlin
In 1923, Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat ve Islam with headquarters in Lahore (hereafter: Lahore-Ahmadiyya) sent the pedagogue Maulvi Sadr-ud-Din to Berlin commissioned to erect a mosque, create a mission and enter in conversation with the Europeans. The European mission was a comprehensive answer to the challenge that the British Empire presented to Muslims. In their hometown, Lahore, Lahore-Ahmadiyya aimed at comparing religions in order to push back …
Turkish Mosque Archives in Industrial Towns in Southern Germany
Starting from the thesis that European mosque archives offer important sources for the history of Muslims and Islam in Europe, this contribution presents results of a pilot survey into the whereabouts of mosque archives in Germany. Focusing on five small towns in industrial zones where predominantly Turkish contract workers have settled, we asked Turkish mosque administrators, chairmen and imams how they had handled papers in the past, whether an…
In Fremder Erde
On the Margins
Berlin, and Azeez Amir in Berlin who supported me in every possible way, entrusting me with the papers and photographs in their possession, and sharing their memories with me.
The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress
In The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress. Missionizing Europe 1900 – 1965 Gerdien Jonker offers an account of the mission the Muslim reform movement of the Ahmadiyya undertook in interwar Europe.
The Dynamics of Adaptive Globalisation. Muslim Missionaries in Weimar Berlin
This study scrutinizes a case of adaptive globalisation at the interface of colonized India and post-war colonial Europe. It examines Muslim missionaries who, after World War I, made missionary efforts in Germany. Originating from British India, the missionaries’ determination was firmly rooted in the Indian colonial past. They saw their mission as a further step in the process of adaptive globalisation, that is, the drive to adapt to and to reve…
A Laboratory of Modernity—The Ahmadiyya Mission in Inter-war Europe
In this paper, I retrace the history of the Ahmadiyya mission in inter-war Europe as part of the globalisation narrative. Once they gained a footing, missionaries responded and adapted to local experiments with modernity as a means to simultaneously win over Europeans and to modernise Islam. The article first considers the mental map with which Ahmadiyya and other Muslim intellectuals approached Europe. It reconstructs the work of the mission org…
Politics of Visibility
This book takes into view a large variety of Muslim actors who, in recent years, made their entry into the European public sphere. Without excluding the phenomenon of terrorists, it maps the whole field of Muslim visibility. The nine contributions present unpublished ethnographic materials that have been collected between 2003 and 2005. They track down the available space that is open to Muslims in EU member states claiming a visibility of their …
The Mevlana Mosque in Berlin-Kreuzberg
This paper describes a public conflict over the building of a mosque in Berlin. The conflict covered the best part of three years. It started in 1999 with a misunderstanding, steadily culminated over a period of two years and was finally cemented into stalemate after 11 September 2001. It has not been solved yet. A description of the historical background and the local setting in which the conflict emerged sets the scene. The main narrative descr…
Vor den Toren
Islamic Knowledge Through a Woman's Lens
The author maps out female production sites of Islamic knowledge in Germany. Such sites are shaped by religious pluralism. Though women experts may differ among themselves, they are still distinct as a group from male experts, who are the sole possessors of religious authority. However, the innovative inroads that these women experts are now developing have enabled them to take up a key position between Muslim communities and the majority society
Archiv der Gesichter/Archive of Faces. Death Masks from the Schiller National Museum in Marbach, Germany
(2000). Archiv der Gesichter/Archive of Faces. Death Masks from the Schiller National Museum in Marbach, Germany. Mortality: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 228-230
Exhibtion Review
What is Other about Other Religions
Based on fieldwork among Muslim communities in Berlin, this article examines the encounter between German legal traditions on religion and Muslim immigrant communities. The discussion of German law is juxtaposed with discussions from within various Muslim communities that seek a place for their members as religious practitioners in German society through emerging interpretations of Islamic law
The knife's edge
This paper concerns Islamic answers to death and burial in Berlin. Alfred Schütz (1972) once described the difficulties an individual faces when approaching a foreign group in order to become accepted as one of them. According to Schütz, the ambivalence of transition necessitates pragmatic action. Religious leaders from Sunni mosque organizations as well as non-religious experts (an undertaker, a lawyer) in Berlin were asked how they handle death…
Index
Preliminary Material
Chronological Tables
The Place of the Past in Mesopotamia
Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series
Choices I
Continuity and Change in the Ebabbar of Sippar
The Building Blocks of Memory
The Topography of Remembrance
The Topography of Remembrance deals with different forms of remembrance and collective memory in Mesopotamia, discussing both its public (national) and private (family) aspects. The Introduction offers a history of modern, European memory in comparison with the Mesopotamian mode. The research adds to the recent discussion on collective memory. The Mesopotamians found tools for the construction and passing on of common remembrance in liturgical re…
The Mevlana Mosque in Berlin-Kreuzberg
This paper describes a public conflict over the building of a mosque in Berlin. The conflict covered the best part of three years. It started in 1999 with a misunderstanding, steadily culminated over a period of two years and was finally cemented into stalemate after 11 September 2001. It has not been solved yet. A description of the historical background and the local setting in which the conflict emerged sets the scene. The main narrative descr…
Das kulturelle Gedachtnis. Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identitat in fruhen Hochkulturen
What is Other about Other Religions
Based on fieldwork among Muslim communities in Berlin, this article examines the encounter between German legal traditions on religion and Muslim immigrant communities. The discussion of German law is juxtaposed with discussions from within various Muslim communities that seek a place for their members as religious practitioners in German society through emerging interpretations of Islamic law
A Laboratory of Modernity—The Ahmadiyya Mission in Inter-war Europe
In this paper, I retrace the history of the Ahmadiyya mission in inter-war Europe as part of the globalisation narrative. Once they gained a footing, missionaries responded and adapted to local experiments with modernity as a means to simultaneously win over Europeans and to modernise Islam. The article first considers the mental map with which Ahmadiyya and other Muslim intellectuals approached Europe. It reconstructs the work of the mission org…
De Textu Bryennii Tripartito
Das kulturelle Gedachtnis. Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identitat in fruhen Hochkulturen
Index
Preliminary Material
Chronological Tables
The Place of the Past in Mesopotamia
Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series
Choices I
Continuity and Change in the Ebabbar of Sippar
The Building Blocks of Memory
Epilogue
Choices II
The Boundaries of Cultural Memory
Plates and Illustrations
Transmission from Image to Imagery
Genealogies
The Topography of the Dead
The Topography of Remembrance
The Topography of Remembrance deals with different forms of remembrance and collective memory in Mesopotamia, discussing both its public (national) and private (family) aspects. The Introduction offers a history of modern, European memory in comparison with the Mesopotamian mode. The research adds to the recent discussion on collective memory. The Mesopotamians found tools for the construction and passing on of common remembrance in liturgical re…
The knife's edge
This paper concerns Islamic answers to death and burial in Berlin. Alfred Schütz (1972) once described the difficulties an individual faces when approaching a foreign group in order to become accepted as one of them. According to Schütz, the ambivalence of transition necessitates pragmatic action. Religious leaders from Sunni mosque organizations as well as non-religious experts (an undertaker, a lawyer) in Berlin were asked how they handle death…
Archiv der Gesichter/Archive of Faces. Death Masks from the Schiller National Museum in Marbach, Germany
(2000). Archiv der Gesichter/Archive of Faces. Death Masks from the Schiller National Museum in Marbach, Germany. Mortality: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 228-230
Exhibtion Review
What is Other about Other Religions
Based on fieldwork among Muslim communities in Berlin, this article examines the encounter between German legal traditions on religion and Muslim immigrant communities. The discussion of German law is juxtaposed with discussions from within various Muslim communities that seek a place for their members as religious practitioners in German society through emerging interpretations of Islamic law
Vor den Toren
Islamic Knowledge Through a Woman's Lens
The author maps out female production sites of Islamic knowledge in Germany. Such sites are shaped by religious pluralism. Though women experts may differ among themselves, they are still distinct as a group from male experts, who are the sole possessors of religious authority. However, the innovative inroads that these women experts are now developing have enabled them to take up a key position between Muslim communities and the majority society
The Mevlana Mosque in Berlin-Kreuzberg
This paper describes a public conflict over the building of a mosque in Berlin. The conflict covered the best part of three years. It started in 1999 with a misunderstanding, steadily culminated over a period of two years and was finally cemented into stalemate after 11 September 2001. It has not been solved yet. A description of the historical background and the local setting in which the conflict emerged sets the scene. The main narrative descr…
History (19 works) · Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Islam (10 works) · Art (9 works) · History (8 works) · Islamic Studies and History (8 works)