Hugo Hamid Marcus (1880-1966)
The Muslim Convert as German Jew
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5348776 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abraham Rubin (0000-0002-7347-5782, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 598-630 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Jewish Quarterly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-6682 • E-ISSN: 1553-0604 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jqr.2019.0025 |
| OpenAlex | W2982250919 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
Dr. Hugo Marcus was a German Jewish convert to Islam who played a prominent role in the cultural and intellectual life of the Ahmadi community that thrived in interwar Berlin. From the 1920s to the 1950s, Marcus published numerous essays devoted to the philosophical explication of Islam in light of German Enlightenment thinkers such as Kant, Goethe, and Lessing. Although Marcus rarely, if ever, alluded to his Jewish origins, this study contends that it is precisely his conception of Islam and his figuration of the Muslim that brings the invisible contours of his Jewishness to light. It traces the continuities between Marcus’s portrayal of Islam and Muslims and then-regnant modes of German Jewish self-representation. Marcus’s reticence on the subject of his origins notwithstanding, his interpretation of Islam situates him within the legacy of German Jewish liberalism and its tradition of religious and cultural self-definition
Art · Art history · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Explication · German · Islam · Judaism · Literature · Politics · Representation (politics) · Subject (documents) · Theology · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
Die Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben
The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840 (Studies in Jewish History)
The German-Jewish Dialogue Reconsidered
German Jews
The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress
German Jewry and the Question of Identity
Werner Sombart's
Forget assimilation
Hermann Cohen and the Quest for Protestant Judaism
The Jewish response to German Culture
The ‘Jewish Question’ in German Literature 1749–1939
Becoming Austrians
German Jews beyond Judaism
Goethe in German-Jewish Culture
Berlin Metropolis, Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918
The Elusiveness of Jewishness
Islam in Inter-War Europe
The Jewish Discovery of Islam
Protestant Islam in Weimar Germany
Muslim Encounters with Nazism and the Holocaust
From Mitteleuropa to the Middle East
German Jewish Scholarship on Islam as a Tool for De-Orientalizing Judaism
Muhammad Asad's Conversion to Islam as a Case Study in Jewish Self-Orientalization
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |