Fatima Grimm

Fatima Grimm (25 July 1934 – 6 May 2013 in Hamburg) was a German translator, author and speaker on the subject of Islam. She gained notoriety as a Muslim convert in Germany and as a functionary in the German Muslim League in Hamburg.

Life and work

Fatima Grimm, born Helga Lili Wolff, was the daughter of SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS Karl Wolff.^[1]

On her 26th birthday in 1960, she took the Islamic creed in the Munich apartment of Ibrahim Gacaoglu.^[2] In 1962, she moved to Czechoslovakia with her then-husband Omar Abdul Aziz, a Czech Muslim. They met in 1958 and married in 1960. Three years later, she returned with her husband to Germany, where she was involved in the Munich municipality. They were divorced amicably in 1983. On April 1, 1984, she married the widowed German convert Abdulkarim Grimm (1933-2009) and moved in with him to Hamburg.^[3]

First Grimm appeared in public, at that time known as Fatima Heeren-Sarka, the Protocol of 11 April 1971, the General Assembly of the Munich mosque Commission (predecessor of the Islamic Community in Germany ) as "secretary" in the newly elected "Executive Committee" on.^[1]

In the following decades, she wrote and translated them several books and has written numerous articles, one of which appeared some in the magazine Al-Islam. In her journalism, she devoted herself mainly issues such as education and the role of women in Islam. The only short time existing children's magazine You and Islam (1978-1984, went to Al-Islam^[4]) was supervised by her.^[2] For several years she was also responsible for Al-Islam.^[5]

In addition, she worked at a German translation of the Koran in a group of mostly women, including Halima frills [2] and Eva-Maria El-Shabassy . [6] Originally, they as a translation of the English translation of the Qur'an by Abdullah Yusuf Ali conceived. [7] The translation contains detailed comments from Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Muhammad Asad, al-Qurtubi, Sayyid Qutb, Daryabadi, Ibn Katheer, Mawdudi, al-Suyuti and Abdul Hameed Siddiqi that have been adopted and translated directly to comments from Sufis or Shiites was waived. [ 8] She was finally over 16 years in 24 bookl–ets of Al-Islam and in five volumes in SKD Bavaria publisher of Abdel-Halim Khafagy published. [6] Grimm's translation belongs alongside that of Muhammad Rassoul to two from Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD) in his 1999 published curriculum for Islamic religious instruction recommended Koran translations. [9] in the guide "oRIENTation" of the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Free University of Berlin is Grimm's translation as strong traditionalist and interpretive and "to the purpose of mission for orientation" describes the studies she was "not recommended". [10] on the website of the ZMD islam.de called Hamida Behr Grimms Koran translation accompanied by contemporary comments as her "probably greatest legacy". It states that it is the first jointly by Sunnis developed and published and Shiites Koran translation into German. Still have "Islamic scholar not with her work dealt," but "in the new departments for Islamic theology" find you their comments. [11]

A few weeks before his death in 1984 put Grimms father Karl Wolff, the Islamic profession of faith; at the grave's daughter spoke in the presence of representatives of the Islamic Center Munich (ICM), the funeral prayer . [1]

Since at least April 1999 Grimm was an honorary member of the advisory board of the ZMD. [12] In addition, she was sitting (with her husband Abdul Karim [13] ) on the board of the German Muslim League eV Hamburg, [5] was a member of the Liberal Islamic Federation and dedicated in Islamic center Hamburg ; on their property in Hamburg there was a separate, small mosque. [13] With her husband Abdul Karim she was repeatedly on the meeting of German Muslims present. [14] In summer 2002, Grimm accompanied with Nadeem Elyas and other representatives of the ZMD a tour of Muslim world League by Germany. [15]

Particular attention was a held for the first time in 1975 by Grimm presentation, the 1995 brochure was published under the title The education of our children from IZM and has since spread again (as at the Book Fair of Berlin Mevlana Mosque in 2007 [16] ). This due to the fact using terms like jihad and Dar al-Harb expressed upcoming family image "controversial publication of Fatima Grimm" [17] is characterized as a specter there be no Islamic education the growth of children to a "mass of half-educated nationalists , communists or humanists ". [18] Furthermore, belong to education, draw to from the age of 15 for open-minded children the concept of jihad as a defense of the faith:" this implies that we are considered as mothers not cowardly and timid on our sons to preserve every danger. [...] Rather, we should give them always keep in mind what it is a great honor for any Muslim to be able to fight for the cause of Islam with the weapon in his hand. " [19] In one of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation 2003 booklet published indicates Grimm had "meanwhile distanced themselves from their concoction". [20] In 2005, Nadeem Elyas guided and 2006 by the Institute of Islamic Studies published this week that stated that Grimm had an opinion and said that the text 30 years old was that she had meant no means the armed struggle and they support this for the present in any case. [21]

Khadija Katja Wöhler Khalfallah quoted Grimm from this with Aisha B. Lemu authored font wife and family life in Islam as an example of fundamentalist, anti secular and jihad endorsing polemics: "(...) This effort (jihad), in the hour of Not, be carried out both with the sword and with the spring, with the blade as with a scalpel, or even with a sewing machine or a wooden spoon. Jihad is a struggle against all forces who attack Islam from within and without. Whether these attacks are aimed to mock Islam to weaken its traditions and customs or to undermine his political power, they must in any case be taken very seriously, because they seek to destroy the roots of our heritage. " [22]

In a research report by Ralph Ghadban Grimms book Islam through the eyes of a woman is mentioned as one of the most popular titles Muslim authors in Germany. In this context, calls Ghadban " Hofmann , of Denffer and Grimm" as the "flow of the Muslim Brotherhood " belonging, "said von Denffer and Grimm rather their radical wing" were. [23]

The Constitutional Protection Report 2010 of the State Office for State Protection Baden-Württemberg is noted that in one written by Grimm publication of IZM for the reintroduction of the hadd punishments 'll advocates. [24]

Grimm was a son and a daughter who died from his first marriage and three stepchildren from his second marriage. [25] She died in the evening of May 6, 2013 following a long illness in Hamburg. [13]

Publications

• Sayyid Abu-l-A'la Maudoodi : belief and life in Islam (= Herder-Library band 397th). Translated from Spanish by Fatima Heeren-Sarka. Issued on behalf of the Islamic Foundation, London. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, inter alia 1971st
• Family life in Islam. Speech delivered at the International Islamic Conference, London, on April 8, 1976. Mohammad Yusuf Khan, Lahore 1976th
• with Aisha Lemu example: Woman in Islam. Papers delivered at the International Islamic Conference, held in London from 3 to 12 April 1976. Islamic Council of Europe, Leicester 1976. ISBN 0-86037-004-6 . Reissue Islamic Foundation, Markfield 2007. ISBN 978-0-86037-004-8
• Al-Islam (ed.): Kurshid Ahmad : principles of Islamic education (= Series of the Islamic Center of Munich # 3..). Bulletin of the Islamic Center Munich. Eds., In cooperation with The Islamic Foundation. Translated from Spanish by Fatima Heeren. Islamic Center Munich, Munich 1976. 4th edition in 1997 and 2005, ibid issued by the Islamic Community in Germany, ISBN 978-3-89263-003-6 or ISBN 3-89263-003-8 .
• with Aisha Lemu example: Kvinden i Islam verden. Scientific Research House, Kuwait and Islamisk Ungdomsforbund, Valby 1978. ISBN 87-980656-4-5 .
• Sound foundations of Muslim families at the most fundamental social unit of the Islamic community. MSA of US and Canada, Bloomington, Indiana 1978th
• Zakat (= Series of the Islamic Center of Munich. No. 6). In cooperation with The Muslim Students Association of The United States & Canada, Islamic Correspondence Course and the Waterval Islamic Institute. Translated from Spanish by Fatima Heeren. Islamic Center Munich, Munich 1978th
• Islamisk familieliv. Alif, Frederiksberg 1987 (reprint ibid 1994 ISBN 87-87728-74-5 ).
• Ahmad Kamil H. Darwish: What is Islam in collaboration with Darqawi Siddigyyah Zawiah of Tangier, Morocco?. Translated from Spanish by Fatima Heeren. Islamic Center Munich, Munich 1978. ibid edition, 1997. ISBN 3-89263-000-3 .
• Sayyid Abu'l-A'la Maudood: belief and life in Islam. Translated from Spanish by Fatima Heeren-Sarka. Islamic Foundation, Leicester, 1978. ISBN 0-86037-029-1 and ISBN 0-86037-028-3 .
• Muhammad Ahsan manazir: Islam, faith and life. Translated by Ahmad of Denffer and Fatima Heeren-Sarka. Islamic Foundation, Leicester, 1978. ISBN 0-86037-034-8 .
• Fasting (= Series of the Islamic Center of Munich. No. 5). Ed. By the Islamic Center of Munich in cooperation with The Muslim Students Association of the United States & Canada. Translated from Spanish by Fatima Heeren. Islamic Center Munich, Munich 1978 (reprint 1982).
• Muhammad (= Series of the Islamic Center of Munich. No. 7). In cooperation with The Muslim Student of the United States & Canada. Translated from Spanish by Fatima Heeren. Islamic Center Munich, Munich 1978th
• Said Ramadan : Islamic law. Theory and practice. Translated by Fatima Heeren. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1980. ISBN 3-447-02078-4 .
• Taha Jabir Al-Alwani: Draft Alternatives Culture Plan. Translated by Fatima Grimm and Hanna Niemann. Muslim Student Association in Germany, Marburg 1992. ISBN 3-932399-12-9 .
• Taha J. al Alwani and Imad al Din Khalil: The Koran and the Sunnah. The time-space factor. Translated by Fatima Grimm and Maryam Reisman. International Institute of Islamic thought, Herndon, Virginia, 1994 ( ISBN 1-56564-053-5 ) and Muslim Student Association in Germany, Marburg 1994 ( ISBN 3-932399-11-0 ).
• Sayyid Abu'l-A'la Maududi: belief and life in Islam (= Series of the Islamic Center of Munich # 24..). Translated from Spanish by Fatima Heeren-Sarka. Islamic Center Munich, Munich (also International Islamic Federation of Student Organization, Kuwait) 1994. ISBN 3-89263-024-0 .
• Inner peace (= lectures about Islam. No. 2). 3. Edition. Islamic Center Munich, Munich 1995. ISBN 3-89263-602-8 .
• Information Center Islamic Center Munich (Hg.): The education of our children (= Lectures on Islam # 3..). Editorial: Tilmann Schaible . Islamic Center Munich, Munich 1995. ISBN 3-89263-603-6 . 2nd revised by Tilmann Schaible edition. Dâr-us-Salaam, Garching, 2000. ISBN 3-932129-63-6 .
• Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi: Islamic life (= Series of the Islamic Center of Munich # 17..). German by Ayisha Niazi and Fatima Heeren. Islamic Center Munich, Munich (also International Islamic Federation of Student Organization, Kuwait) 1996. ISBN 3-89263-017-8 .
• Said Ramadan: Islamic law. Theory and practice. Translated by Fatima Heeren. 2nd edition, published by the Muslim Student Association in Germany eV in cooperation with the Islamic Council in Germany eV Editing by Amena El-Zayat. Muslim Student Association in Germany, Marburg 1996. ISBN 3-932399-00-5 .
• other: Tarǧamat Ma'aanee'l-Glorious Quran ila'l-Luga al-almānīya = The Meaning of the Qur'an. 5 volumes. SKD Bavaria, Munich 1996-1997. ISBN 3-926575-40-9 .
• with Aisha Lemu example: women and family life in Islam (= Series of the Islamic Center of Munich # 20..); translated by Abdullah Hammam. 3. Edition. Islamic Center Munich, Munich 1999. ISBN 3-89263-020-8 .
• Tilmann Schaible (Hg.): Fatima Grimm and Timann Schaible: How do I make prayer in Islam (= elementary knowledge Islam # 2..)?. Dâr-us-Salaam, Garching bei München, 2000. ISBN 3-932129-02-4 .
• Islam through the eyes of a woman. 2nd, revised edition. SKD Bavaria-Verlag, Munich 2002. ISBN 3-926575-92-1 .
• Selection from the ocean of mercy. The teachings of Großscheikhs our master Shaykh 'Abdullah ad-Daghestani an-Naqshbandi. Explains through his representative and successor Nazim al-Qubrusi . Compiled, translated and edited by Hassan P. Dyck and Fatima Heeren. 2nd edition, revised edition by Abd al-Hafidh Wentzel. Warda-Publ., Hellenthal 2005. ISBN 978-3-939191-03-2 or ISBN 3-939191-03-5 .
• Muhammad Ahmad Rassoul (Hg.): Inner Peace. 3., improved and expanded edition. Islamic Library, Cologne 2006. ISBN 3-8217-0075-0 .
• Muhammet Mertek (Red.): Short Suras from the Koran and a few selected prayers; translated by Fatima Grimm. Fountain-Verlag, Offenbach am Main 2009. ISBN 978-3-935521-50-5 .
• Ali Ünal (Hg.): The Qur'an and its translation. With comments and annotations; translated by Fatima Grimm and Wilhelm Willeke. Fountain-Verlag, Offenbach am Main 2009. ISBN 978-3-935521-45-1 or ISBN 978-3-935521-46-8 .
• as Issuer: cloth feeling. Stories of life with and without headscarves. Narrabila Verlag, Berlin, 2013. ISBN 978-3-943136-06-7 .

External links

• Fatima Grimm in the catalog of the German National Library

References