144031 SE M1: Quran (2024W)

The "Quran" seminar aims to provide students and prospective religious education teachers with an in-depth understanding of the Quran. As the source of the Muslim faith, the Quran has been the subject of many different topics since its creation. Even today, Muslims derive topics from the content and basic themes of the Quran. But how are current social discourses based on the Quranic text to be understood and what methods and approaches can create a contemporary understanding among prospective theologians and religious education teachers?
With this central question in mind, the first six teaching units of the seminar take on the task of introducing students to the complex content of the Quran based on the range of translations as well as pre-modern and modern exegeses, so that today's discourses can be properly categorised. The seminar considers the Qur'an to be an Arabic-language event that emerged in history, which Muḥammad proclaimed to his first community of listeners on the Arabian peninsula of Hejaz through the interactive co-creation of the other religious communities. This embeds the Qur'an in its primary context of origin. Students should also learn content from the late antique thought space so that the Qur'an, as a text of late antiquity, can also fulfil a European approach.
These two contexts make it possible to learn about exemplary topics such as clothing regulations, inheritance law for men and women or environmental protection and environmental ethics in comparison with Judeo-Christian culture. In the second step, students should learn the skills to critically reflect on these Quranic topics in order to argue scientifically and methodically and to develop their rhetorical (through presentations) and written (through essays) skills.
In the second part of the seminar, the importance of the Qur'an as the main medium of IRU was discussed on the basis of specific examples and the didactic consequences were discussed.