Media, Materiality, Hermeneutics.

The research group “Islam and Digitality: Media, Materiality, Hermeneutics” explores how normative reasoning of religious content, hermeneutic procedures, aesthetic practices, and reconstructions of history of Islam are changing due to digital transformation. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and is being carried out at universities in Frankfurt (Prof. A. Omerika), Berlin (Prof. M. Gharaibeh) and Erfurt (Dr. C. Günther) under the joint umbrella of the Academy for Islam in Science and Society (AIWG).
The individual sub-projects examine the constitution, organisation, and dynamics of these areas in Islamic theology and Muslim religious practice. The team will also collaboratively reflect on the use of digital or computer-aided research tools, processes, methods, and digital resources in Islamic theological studies as an academic discipline, and ask to what extent digital resources can be harnessed in the discipline.