Navid Kermani
Author of Wonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity
About the Author
Navid Kermani is a writer and scholar who lives in Cologne, Germany. He has received numerous accolades for his literary and academic work, including the 2015 Peace Prize of the German Publishers' Association, Germany's most prestigious cultural award.
Image credit: Navid Kermani, 2011. Photo by Manfred Sause / Wikipedia
Works by Navid Kermani
Entlang den Gräben: Eine Reise durch das östliche Europa bis nach Isfahan (2018) — Author — 36 copies, 2 reviews
Jeder soll von da, wo er ist, einen Schritt näher kommen: Fragen nach Gott (2022) 13 copies, 2 reviews
Album: Das Buch der von Neil Young getöteten. Vierzig Leben. Du sollst. Kurzmitteilung (2014) — Author — 4 copies
Offenbarung als Kommunikation: Das Konzept wahy in Nasr Hamid Abu Zayds Mafhum an-nass (European university studies.… (1996) 1 copy
'Silent sirens: the language of Islam and how Osama bin Laden betrays it' in TLS 5296: 1 Oct 2004 1 copy
Grenzen voorbij 1 copy
Associated Works
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Kirmānī, Nafīd
نوید کرمانی - Birthdate
- 1967-11-27
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Germany
Iran - Country (for map)
- Germany
- Birthplace
- Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
- Places of residence
- Cologne, Germany
- Education
- University of Bonn (Habilitation) (Orientalism) (2005)
- Occupations
- writer
publicist
Orientalist
academic
journalist
playwright - Relationships
- Amirpur, Katajun (wife)
- Organizations
- Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin
Hamburg Academy of Sciences
Theater an der Ruhr, Mülheim - Awards and honors
- Hessischer Kulturpreis (2009)
Kleist Prize (2012)
Gerty Spies Prize for Literature (2014)
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Reviews
Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 38
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 510
- Popularity
- #48,631
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 20
- ISBNs
- 121
- Languages
- 5
Both he while growing up, and his daughter now had Roman Catholic religion classes at school, with the result that he knows the Bible and not just the Koran. However, while he often says that you can't put everyone in a religion into one pot, he often speaks of Christianity when he really means Roman Catholicism, and seems unaware of certain differences in how dogma would be expressed now as opposed to twenty years ago. He also ignores aspects of Islam that don't fit his arguments.
Many of the Koran quotes he gives are very beautiful, and certainly more understandable than the translations I have tried to read.
The problem is what sort of rating to give. Parts are certainly worth 4 1/2. Others would not quite make a 3. I guess I'll stick with 3 1/2, as with all its faults, I think this book is worth reading.… (more)