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Abrahamic Stranger: Muslim German Intellectuals on Jewish German Intellectuals and Questions of Belonging

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Religious minorities have always been at the centre of the German nation-state’s self-understanding, as it came to define itself vis a vis, and often against, them. Historically, this can be seen specifically in the Jewish experience, and today reverberates in the experience of Muslims grappling with a position of alterity in German society. We will move beyond the scholarship on these two religious minority groups to that of these two religious minority groups—that is the intellectual milieu of German Jews and German Muslims. Both have confronted the insider-outsider status of religious minorities in Germany, while themselves occupying—and thinking from—this position of alterity. As Jewish intellectuals a century prior, Muslim intellectuals are confronting the (im)possibility of fully belonging to the society at hand. In so doing, they are, at times inadvertently, coming into conversation with Jewish intellectuals past on ideas surrounding the practice of religion, pluralism, minority-state relations, and social ethics.

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13

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25-45

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978-90-04-51432-4

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Becker, Elizabeth, Topkara, Ufuk Abrahamic Stranger: Muslim German Intellectuals on Jewish German Intellectuals and Questions of Belonging. Jews and Muslims in Europe: Between Discourse and Experience. Brill. 2022: 25-45.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-2705