Gottes Handeln und die prophetische Praxis der Zuschreibung im Islam: Hermeneutisch-prophetologische Erkundungen

Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino

doi:10.71956/cdth001-art03

Authors

Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino Center for Islamic Theology, Chairholder Dep. Hadith Studies and Prophetic Tradition

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.71956/cdth001-art03

Abstract

The knowledge that God is constantly and unceasingly acting presents itself in the Qur'an as a knowledge that liberates man from the bondage of a blind fate. However, contemporary Islamic thought must assume that referring to God's action in the hitherto existing ways is not immediately intelligible to a modern secular public. Islamic theology, as a scientific form of attempting to take on this challenge, is visibly struggling. On the basis of hermenutical and prophetological explorations, this article aims to develop an impulse that has been largely neglected in academic Islamic discussion to date. This impulse starts from the simple assertion that Islam is a prophetic religion and that therefore the Islamic conception of God's action must be a prophetically mediated conception. Accordingly, in an Islamic context, theological discourse on God's action can only be meaningful if it is thought, reasoned and formulated in a prophetological way. Finally, the conclusion will discuss which possible interreligious perspectives could result from this approach.

Author Biography

Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino, Center for Islamic Theology, Chairholder Dep. Hadith Studies and Prophetic Tradition

Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino, Prof. Dr., *1979, doctorate 2012, 2013 postdoc, 2016 junior professorship, since 2021 Chair of Hadith Studies and Prophetic Tradition at the University of Tübingen

Transfer, Ethos and Authority in Hadith Scholarship, in: MIDEO 2019; Transfer and Religion (eds.), with D. Scotto and A. Dubrau, Tübingen 2021; ‘The Prophet is closer to the believers than Themselves’ (Q 33:6): An Investigation of the Scripture on the Anthropological Basis of Ittibāʿ al-Nabī (Sequela Prophetae), in: Demiri et al. Tübingen 2022.