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How the German poet and thinker J. The structure, which repeats itself again and again in every chapter, is based on a contrast between opposites:
Goethe came in to write on the Arabs, Muhammad and Islam is perhaps a subject for a literary magazine rather than a political Internet site like our
Middle East Desk. Wielding considerable political, military and social clout, this powerful Shia Islamist organisation is government, parliament and
welfare state rolled into one. Some Modern European Muslims are quite certain Goethe was a Muslim, personally I would not be at all surprised if
he was. Skip to main content. He wrote in his Divan:. All his life, Goethe was at pains to bring the various religious communities closer together.
For question about the archive visit: Goethe commented also on other outstanding literary creations of the Arab nation in its country of origin,
especially on the Koran. Leave this field blank. Working for the literary journal Frankfurter Gelehrten Anzeigen , he rebelled against the orthodox
standpoints of Christian representatives and spoke out in favour of openness and individual religious determination. Yet once in the field, only the
odd military checkpoint serves to remind travellers that tensions in the area remain high. Goethe, then 70, sought a suitable scenery for a string of
brief poems into which he could cast the wisdom of his old age laced with the lyrical ardour of his youthful heart, stirred by an encounter with a
pretty and brilliant young woman he had met in Frankfurt. In Herder prompted him to engage intensively with the Muslims' holy book. When
Goethe parted ways with religion, it was usually in connection with the institutions of faith and their representatives. Why did the poet's mind
wander to far-off climes? Rebuilding the Muslim House of Wisdom. You are commenting using your Facebook account. For the poet, the course
of things on earth went hand-in-hand with divine will. This applies in particular to defamatory, racist, personal, or irrelevant comments or comments
written in dialects or languages other than English. He had no understanding for this, or for the Islamic vision of paradise, which to his mind was
formed too much from the masculine perspective. Goethe found the Napoleonic period a depressing era , during which he had felt inner discord,
but in CE the new German translation of the works of Hafiz of Shiraz had opened up a new world for him. Goethe was captivated by the night-
time journey and noted in the Divan: Goethe is still more popular than Theodor Herzl, the Godfather of Israel. In an unpublished essay written in
"On the Reformation Festival", he put forward the suggestion that religious festivals should be celebrated together, uniting all denominations. About
a hundred years later the German sociologist Max Weber , discovered, on the basis of statistical evidence, that religion had a decisive and
formative influence on the education, mentality and economic performance of a group, a class, a nation. To serve the purpose of its content, the
Quran disposes of a style that could be described as precise, elevated, amazing, and in several places reaching the maximum of highness. Although
he repeatedly underlined the particular strength he was able to derive from the divine and praised the linguistic value of the holy texts he was
familiar with, he often turned away again from the elements of belief just as quickly as his liking for them had developed. I insist that he who does
not do things quite rightly shall do better. Goethe and the Orient: It was mirrored from Geocities at the end of October, In over fifty countries,
nearly thirty of them non-Arab, Islam is the dominant religion, and all share as this common feature of economic and technological retardation. For
Goethe, religion embodied first and foremost a construct of personal freedom and decision-making power, which had been the source of his
creativity from a young age. Jordan and the influx of refugees The true Samaritans. Have the right steps been From the emotional Orient to the
distortion of Islam Science and research in the Islamic world: Assistant Professor of political science. While Goethe had the courage to speak his
mind Herzl like any Zionist leader, was a conman and liar. Syrians in Germany The need to find a voice Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 28
August 22 March is world-famous German poet , novelist, playwright and natural philosopher. In the 21 st century, how might Goethe, who
had a lifelong preoccupation with Islam, position himself on the question of whether Islam is a part of Germany? Following the same line, God is to
be in the Orient and the Occident, and all lands must rest in His Hands. It required no preconditions, no original connections or even linguistic
capabilities. Based on this culture-transcending and universal understanding of Islam, whoever possesses knowledge of himself and others must
recognize that Orient and Occident are not to be separated anymore. Let me randomly try my faith-laden needle on the text. Unlike the Prophet,
Goethe certainly did not regard the time before Islam as a time of ignorance Jahiliyya. Leave a comment Click here to cancel reply. Anyhow he
was certainly an interesting, intelligent and likeable individual. The Lisbon earthquake of , in which around 60, people lost their lives, made him
doubt the intentions of the sublime. Translations of classical Islamic literature: When a Kurd and a Turk open up a burger joint and an Israeli and a
Palestinian start preparing German dishes with Middle Eastern spices, you know the food scene is in flux. His heartfelt desire was for them to work
and live not alongside each other, but with each other. To report any malicious content send the URL to oocities at gmail dot com. In praise of
fusion food Hummus with a twist Within two years, the rise of the AfD has caused a backlash in German discourse that Angela Merkel, fearing the
loss of conservative voters to the right, has proved incapable of