The Saarpfalz District Adult Education Centre is offering a 90-minute online lecture with Islamic scholar Prof. Dr Gudrun Krämer on Thursday, 21 November at 7.30 pm.
Since its foundation in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood has been one of the most influential Islamic movements of the present day, to which Islamic activists from the Palestinian Hamas to the Turkish AKP refer.
Drawing on a wide range of Arab sources that have hardly been exploited to date, Gudrun Krämer shows how the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hasan al-Banna, turned a Sufi-inspired educational and charitable association into a mass organisation with hundreds of thousands of followers that used religion as a basis for politics.
In addition to a separate branch of the Muslim Sisters, a secret organisation also emerged in the shadow of the Second World War. The Muslim Brotherhood was banned at the end of 1948, and al-Banna fell victim to an assassination attempt shortly afterwards.
Even today it serves as a reference for non-jihadist Islamists.
Gudrun Krämer sheds light on the history of ideas, the social environment and the political context of the movement, portrays fellow campaigners and opponents and uses the biography of Hasan al-Banna to impressively open up a key chapter in the history of modern Islam.
Until her retirement, Gudrun Krämer was Professor of Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin and Director of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies. She is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the German Council of Science and Humanities and co-editor of the Encyclopaedia of Islam Three. In 2010 she was honoured with the Gerda Henkel Prize. Her standard works published by C.H.Beck include "Geschichte Palästinas" (2015) and "Geschichte des Islam".
The event is organised in cooperation with vhs Wissen Live. Participation is free of charge.
Registration is required for all KVHS courses and lectures. Registration is possible at www.kvhs-saarpfalz.de, by phone (06842) 9243-10 or by e-mail to [email protected].