Pastor August Bielenstein ehemals Pastor zu Doblen in Kurland ... erweiterer Nachruf

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African Studies in distress: German scholarship on Africa and the neglected challenge of decoloniality

This paper is a response to Matthias Basedau's article published in issue 55/2020 of the present journal. At a time when African Studies scholarship is rising beyond the flogging of dead horses, certain strands in the field in Germany seem to ignore much of the valuable scholarship and intellectual contributions by excellent African and non-African researchers alike. It is striking to see how Basedau falls prey to the same shortcomings that he draws our attention to, that is, the domination of African Studies by sources and figures outside the continent and the construction of Africa as a space of lack. This underscores the urgency of decolonizing African Studies at many levels, including liberating it from the straightjacket of area studies, interrogating purportedly objective scholarship, and opening it up to new theoretical perspectives. The restriction to comparative approaches will only ensure that these strands in African Studies remain stuck in their epistemological cul-de-sac.Dieser Beitrag ist eine Replik auf den Artikel von Matthias Basedau, der in Ausgabe 55/2020 der vorliegenden Zeitschrift erschienen ist. Während die Afrikawissenschaften im Begriff sind, überkommene Debatten hinter sich zu lassen, scheinen manche Strömungen innerhalb des Feldes in Deutschland intellektuelle Beiträge herausragender afrikanischer und nichtafrikanischer Forscherinnen und Forscher nicht wahrzunehmen. Es ist frappierend, wie Basedau teils dieselben Defizite reproduziert, auf die er aufmerksam machen will, etwa die Dominanz der Afrikastudien durch Arbeiten und Personen von außerhalb des Kontinents oder die Konstruktion Afrikas als einen Ort, dem es an vielem mangelt. Dies unterstreicht die Notwendigkeit einer Dekolonisierung der Afrikastudien auf vielen Ebenen, etwa durch ihre Befreiung aus der Zwangsjacke der Regionalstudien, das Hinterfragen vermeintlich objektiver Wissenschaft und die Öffnung für dekoloniale Ansätze. Die Beschränkung auf vergleichende Perspektiven wird hingegen dafür sorgen, dass die Afrikawissenschaften in einer epistemologischen Sackgasse stecken bleiben

Die Lehre der Irvingianer, nach ihren Schriften dargelegt und nach der heiligen Schrift geprüft

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Die ältesten im Alten Testament : Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Magisters der Theologie

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Developing Crosslingual Ontologies in WissKI: Transcontinental Research Collaboration in the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence

Since July 2019, the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth has been funding a project dedicated to the creation of an Islamic Cultural Archive (ICA), a database designed for collaborative research in English, French and Arabic connecting researchers based in Germany and four African countries. The ICA project pursues individual but interconnected studies revolving around Islamic learning in Africa. Supported by IT specialists, we develop a digital platform that meets the related requirements. The ICA seeks to develop new approaches to the handling of data through establishing an ontology-based digital research environment building on WissKI, a set of modules that extends the content management system Drupal with semantic web technology. The chapter sheds light on the technical implications of our endeavor to connect diverse alphabets and data from various digital and digitized media. The research team members connect their diverse data sets to create synergies between various research foci and interests, ranging from the nexus of Islamic knowledge production, dissemination, and acquisition to the socio-religious, political-economic, and cultural dimensions of Islamic learning. The chapter shows how our system allows us to collect and archive different types of data, generate metadata through an ontology, and connect data beyond language barriers. Most notably, our data description method links the data through multilayered and multilingual tags, as well as through comprehensive cross-references, thus constituting an innovative way of data handling that can benefit researchers in Islamic Studies as well as cultural and literary studies more broadly

An African Muslim Saint and his Followers in France

This paper explores the practice of Islam among a relatively understudied group of Muslim migrants in France, the Halpulaaren, some of whom have been living in France for more than three decades. Drawing on field research in Senegal, Mali and France, the author considers the contexts for Halpulaaren migration to France, including the West African background to such migration and the situation migrants face in France. The author focuses on a Halpulaaren Muslim religious leader from Senegal, Mansour Baro, who has a reputation as a living Muslim saint, and his followers in France. Tierno Mansour is one of a handful of the most esteemed leaders of the Tijaniyya Sufi order in Senegal. The appeal of this saint, who annually visits Europe, for his followers in France is examined in order to try and understand some of the ways of being Muslim in the shadow of the global city with both its promises and constraints. [Journal abstract]ASC – Publicaties niet-programma gebonde