englischIslamic theological studies in Germany are regularly asked about the contribution of ‘Islamic ethics’ to the present. This raises the question of how contemporary ethical questions can be answered with respect to Islamic theological tradition. This book first presents four conceptions of [...]

englischThis study discusses the historical and (power-) political backgrounds as well as the legally and theologically questionable justification of the historically unique constitutional amendment with which the Pakistani parliament excommunicated Ahmadi Muslims from Islam—a decision wholly at [...]

englischThis volume presents major lines of analysis in Law and Literature/Law and Humanities research for both legal and literary scholars. The special emphasis in the volume is on narrative and narration in the law and the law in narrative, a focus due to the context of the series based in the [...]

englischThe relationship of Sharia to secular law, human rights, gender roles and ethical issues of thought and action has been the focus of media, social and political attention for decades. By combining an in-depth understanding of pre-modern Islamic jurisprudence with modern legal and social [...]

englischUnder sec. 1303 of the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch – BGB) every spouse has to have reached the age of 18 in order to enter into a civil marriage. These rules apply accordingly to both traditional and religious marriages. Despite and contrary to these statutory minimum age [...]

englischThe debate about exclusion, hate crime and racism has become increasingly heated in recent years, not only in Germany but also in other countries of the West, especially the USA, where the "Black Lives Matter movement" has drawn attention to the almost omnipresent racism in the American [...]