Category: Minbar Editorial

Dear readers This special edition of Minbar Ibn Rushd is dedicated to prison literature, the subject of this year’s Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought (2015). We begin with an essay by the late Egyptian author and literary critic Radwa Ashour on prison literature. In it she analyzes  some works of former prisoners, who have […]

Dear readers in this issue Minbar Ibn Rushd again offers you a new selection of interesting essays by authors from different Arab countries. In his Saturday speech the Islamic scholar Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Habash deals with “The founding myths of the discourse of extremism” and answers the questions addressed to him by the audience. We […]

Dear readers, We begin the year with an extensive double winter issue. At the Reinhold Frank Memorial Lectures in summer 2014, Jörg Armbruster was invited to Karlsruhe to give a lecture entitled “Democracy in the Arab World. What chances does it have?” Armbruster was the correspondent of the German TV Channel ARD for the Middle […]

Dear readers! The focus of the last issue of Minbar was – like in previous issues – the Arab revolution. The call for change is undeniably clear. But where do we start? There are many diverse and complex problems This issue is dedicated to some of these complex problems in the Arab world. The focus […]

Dear readers! The Arab world is facing major challenges. Only with new ideas, concepts and approaches will this part of the world be able to achieve what many others have enjoyed for a long time: equality of rights and obligations, a life without fear, a life in dignity, which guarantees equal economic and social opportunities […]

Dear readers! Last summer we resumed our magazine – after a long interval – with an extensive first issue on “Arab thought”. We will now resume regular publication with an issue that is equally extensive. Herbert Grönemeyer sings “Home is not a place. Home is a feeling”. „Home is, what you no longer have“, says […]

Dear readers! We are very pleased to inform you that our internet magazine Minbar Ibn Rushd (Ibn Rushd Forum) is to resume regular publication after a long interval of a few years with three to four issues per year. We start with an extensive first issue. The subject of Minbar’s 10th issue is “Arab thought” […]

Dear readers! Starting from the assumption that there must be found a way out of the dilemma of terrorism and that the reasons for the crisis in the relationship between the Islamic world and the West must be overcome by working out a solution together, a group of German diplomats, who have formally served in […]

Dear readers! Autumn is a time of reflection and contemplation and so – appropriate to the time of the year – we publish in this new virtual issue a couple of articles that look thoughtfully – back and forth – and ask many questions that concern all nations. A major issue in modern philosophy, whether […]

Dear Readers! On August the 28th 2004 in Oxford the annual meeting „Project for Democracy Studies in the Arab World“ took place for the 14th time. This meeting of Arab academics is extraordnary, has it not indeed established itself throughout the years as a highly respected forum, in which modern Arab intellectuals elaborate on current […]

Dear readers! We are most happy to be able to present to you some new interesting contributions from the Arab World. Please have a look! Three articles go back to the 12th Century to trace back the relevance Ibn Rushd and Ibn Arabi might have in modern times. In his compact presentation Abeeb Salloum tries […]