{"id":1159,"date":"2008-04-28T11:03:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T09:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2008\/04\/28\/der-islam-der-wuste-gegen-den-islam-der-stadte_1159"},"modified":"2008-04-28T11:03:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T09:03:16","slug":"der-islam-der-wuste-gegen-den-islam-der-stadte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2008\/04\/28\/der-islam-der-wuste-gegen-den-islam-der-stadte_1159","title":{"rendered":"Der Islam der W\u00fcste gegen den Islam der St\u00e4dte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pankaj Mishra erz\u00e4hlt im New York Times Magazine von einem Besuch bei dem \u00e4gyptischen Autor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marabout.de\/Aswani\/Aswani.htm\">Alaa al Aswani<\/a>, der einen literarischen Salon in Kairo unterh\u00e4lt, in dem offen \u00fcber Religion, Kunst und Politik debattiert wird. An einem Abend wird \u00fcber die &#8222;Satanischen Verse&#8220; von Salman Rushdie debattiert. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeit.de\/2007\/15\/Jakubian\">Al Aswani<\/a> sieht sich gen\u00f6tigt, aus dem Leben des Propheten zu begr\u00fcnden, warum es nicht aus dem Islam heraus gerechtfertigt werden k\u00f6nne, Rushdie zu t\u00f6ten.<br \/>\n\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/files\/2008\/04\/als-aswani.jpg' title='als-aswani.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/files\/2008\/04\/als-aswani.jpg' alt='als-aswani.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<em>Alaa al Aswani, Autor und Zahnarzt<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\tW\u00e4hrenddessen sitzen zwei b\u00e4rtige junge M\u00e4nner im Raum und machen Notizen. Es folgt ein Austausch zu der Losung der Muslimbr\u00fcder &#8222;Der Islam ist die L\u00f6sung&#8220;.<br \/>\n\tEin seltener Einblick in inner\u00e4gyptische Debatten:<\/p>\n<p>\t&#8222;As though underlining Nasser\u2019s failure to build a modern and secular Egypt, there were budding Islamists in the audience that evening: two thin young men, most likely students, wearing piously long beards. Defiantly asserting their faith in a secular setting, they invited curious, even slightly hostile, glances, especially from a woman with dyed blond hair who wore stilettos and a purple T-shirt over tight white pants. A balding middle-aged man, who while we waited for Al Aswany smilingly passed around copies of a book with a glossy green cover (self-published, it was dedicated to \u201call the oppressed people in the world\u201d), ignored the young men.<\/p>\n<p>\tSilence fell as Al Aswany, wearing a bright yellow short-sleeved shirt, entered the room. After some brief remarks about the books to be discussed the following week, he began to speak about the evening\u2019s topic, \u201cart and religion.\u201d Initially slow, he gathered speed until something like passion appeared in his Arabic speech, and he leaned forward on the table and waved his long thick arms.<\/p>\n<p>\tHe described the controversies surrounding Salman Rushdie and the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, explaining why the two realms of art and religion, which in the West were typically seen as separate, often clashed. It was a complicated argument, and I could follow only some of it in the translation provided by my interpreter. But the bearded young men diligently took notes and then were the first to raise their hands after Al Aswany, exhausted from his exertions, collapsed back in his chair and invited questions from the audience. \u201cWhy,\u201d one of them asked, \u201cdid Salman Rushdie\u2019s novel\u201d \u2014 \u201cThe Satanic Verses\u201d \u2014 \u201cwhich insulted Islam, receive so much prominence in the West?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\t\u201cRushdie,\u201d he began, \u201cis a good writer. I haven\u2019t read \u2018The Satanic Verses,\u2019 but whatever was in the novel did not justify Khomeini\u2019s fatwa against him. Islam doesn\u2019t give anyone the right to kill.\u201d He stressed the importance of compassion in Islam by recounting a story of the prophet. One day his grandsons jumped on his back when he was bent in prayer. Such was the prophet\u2019s kindness to people weaker than him that he extended his prayer so as not to disturb the children. Indeed, he would often cut short his sermon if he heard a baby crying, and he forbade the cutting of trees even during war. \u201cHow can anyone,\u201d Al Aswany asked, \u201cuse the same prophet\u2019s name to kill? You can see clearly there has been a terrible interpretation of Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\tThe bearded young men wrote faster in their notebooks. Al Aswany was just warming to his theme. <strong>The Islam, he continued, of Egypt and other large metropolitan civilizations like Baghdad and Damascus had been marked by tolerance and pluralism. It couldn\u2019t be more different from the Islam of the desert, such as had developed in Saudi Arabia. Desert nomads did not have much time for art; they hadn\u2019t created any. The tragedy for Egypt was that it now had to deal with the philistine and intolerant versions of Islam coming from places like Saudi Arabia. <\/strong>All the battles won in Egypt after the 1919 and 1952 revolutions \u2014 especially the battle for women\u2019s rights \u2014 had to be refought.<\/p>\n<p>\tLooking directly at the bearded young men, he said: \u201cThe Muslim Brotherhood says, \u2018Islam is the solution.\u2019 So when you oppose them, they say, \u2018You are opposing Islam.\u2019 It\u2019s very dangerous. Very dangerous.\u201d He repeated in a louder voice: \u201cIn politics, you have to have political solutions. What does it mean to say, \u2018Islam is the solution\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\tBy the end of this speech, Al Aswany was gesticulating furiously. Later, surrounded by reverent fans in the corridor, patiently signing autographs and receiving unsolicited books, he seemed calmer. But some of his exasperated passion of the previous few minutes returned when he looked up and saw me. As the small crowd around him gaped, he said: \u201cDid you see those confused young men? This is the big problem today in Egypt. You have the dictatorship, and then you have the Muslim Brotherhood. People\u2019s thinking is limited by these two options. Young people in my time were not so confused. My generation, we of the left, knew where we stood. These young men don\u2019t know what is what. So I have to explain everything to them.\u201d<br \/>\n\tMehr <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/27\/magazine\/27aswany-t.html?_r=1&#038;ref=magazine&#038;pagewanted=all\">hier<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pankaj Mishra erz\u00e4hlt im New York Times Magazine von einem Besuch bei dem \u00e4gyptischen Autor Alaa al Aswani, der einen literarischen Salon in Kairo unterh\u00e4lt, in dem offen \u00fcber Religion, Kunst und Politik debattiert wird. An einem Abend wird \u00fcber die &#8222;Satanischen Verse&#8220; von Salman Rushdie debattiert. Al Aswani sieht sich gen\u00f6tigt, aus dem Leben [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-die-freunde-und-die-feinde-des-islams"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Der Islam der W\u00fcste gegen den Islam der St\u00e4dte - J\u00f6rg Lau<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2008\/04\/28\/der-islam-der-wuste-gegen-den-islam-der-stadte_1159\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Der Islam der W\u00fcste gegen den Islam der St\u00e4dte - J\u00f6rg Lau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pankaj Mishra erz\u00e4hlt im New York Times Magazine von einem Besuch bei dem \u00e4gyptischen Autor Alaa al Aswani, der einen literarischen Salon in Kairo unterh\u00e4lt, in dem offen \u00fcber Religion, Kunst und Politik debattiert wird. 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