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Papers by Detlev Quintern
Postcolonial Interventions, 2024
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2018
ranks among the scholars of Weimar Classicism who not only appreciated Arabic contributions to th... more ranks among the scholars of Weimar Classicism who not only appreciated Arabic contributions to the universal heritage of sciences but revived a long lost cosmological and universal understanding of sciences, tracing back to flourishing periods of the Abbasids from early 9 th century onwards. A universalistic approach to historical layers of sciences follows long-term developments, retracing historical layers in sciences' history while overcoming outdated Eurocentric concepts of periodization (middle ages, modernity etc.). The Abbasid Era under Caliph Ma'mūn in the first third of 9 th ACE with Baghdad at its center introduced an Early Enlightenment reaching finally Middle Europe. Scientific classifications were approved, interdisciplinary, experimental sciences enhanced and scientific travelling flourished. Alexander Humboldt not only reflected upon Arabic contributions to the universal heritage of sciences but followed up Arabic universalism himself, applying it during his scientific travelling. The Humboldtian approach combined scientific traveling with interdisciplinary observations, determinations (geographic coordinates), and classifications from the very beginnings onwards. When traveling Central Asia in 1829, he especially showed an interest to Arabic contributions in the field of geography and cartography. Humboldt had not only studied Arabic sources on Central Asia but compared historical coordinates with his own measurements. The source studies of Fuat Sezgin (1924-2018) enable nowadays to comprehend the important contributions of Arabic-Islamic geography and cartography, and while contextualizing the rich fund historically, Eurocentric distortions in the history of science, here geography and cartography, losing their relevancy.
From Marx to Global Marxism: Eurocentrism, Resistance, Postcolonial Criticism, 2020
The oeuvre of the 19th-century scholars Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels should not be read canonic... more The oeuvre of the 19th-century scholars Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels should not be read canonically. A critical reading of the Marxian text corpus requires to embed it in a universal historical context not least of revolutionary ideas, theories, and practices. The term “universal” emphasises the spatial and temporal integrity of the world, op- posing dualistic thinking, for example with the imperial juxtaposition “civilisation” versus “barbarianism.” Thus, a Eurocentric world view was also propagated by Marx and Engels.1 Following universalistic approaches in the theory of history (Khella 2008, Peters 1952), the question of dis/continuity in life’s unfolding, including human be- ingness,2 is of importance. The Imperiocene – a term developed in the context of the debates on the human-shaped age of the Anthropocene (UNESCO 2018) – constitutes an auto-destructive disruption in the long history of life. During the course of the 19th century, the Imperiocene began to shape life’s future, leaving a devasting imprint on earth and progressively destroying the balanced macrostructure of the cosmos. In the history of ideas, Marx and Engels left their immaterial mark far beyond this period.
A polylogical reading of Marx from various perspectives of his contemporaries prevents an immanent understanding that remains trapped in a closed hermeneutical circle, should critical, divergent and opposing voices from below and all around the world not be included. A text immanent reading of Marx has the tendency to blank out blind spots and critical aspects in order to recover the systemic construct of “capital- ism,” which had been introduced by Marx and Engels. It seems that later Rosa Lux- emburg had become aware of some inconsistencies and discrepancies within the Marx- ian theory, which however she did not criticise fundamentally.
From Marx to Global Marxism Eurocentrism, Resistance, Postcolonial Criticism, 2020
Reading Marx in his historical context critical (Eurocentrism, Anti-Colonial Resistance).
Increasing calls to decolonize the university brought forward by student-led movements have raise... more Increasing calls to decolonize the university brought forward by student-led movements have raised the question regarding how to reassess the canon of European social and political thought. This article offers a critical but appreciative reading of Gurminder Bhambra's and John Holmwood's Colonialism and Modern Social Theory, based on the first chapter titled "Hobbes to Hegel: Europe and Its Others." It discusses the strategies of intervention into the canon proposed by the authors and argues for complementary strategies of transformation if decolonizing the canon means to move beyond the myths, metaphors, fictions, and false universals of modern European thought.
From Marx to global Marxism. Eurocentrsm, Reistance, Postcolonial Critique, 2020
Introduction to From Marx to global Marxism. Eurocentrsm, Reistance, Postcolonial Critique
Persian scientists of ancient times made a significant contribution to the field of surgery. Amon... more Persian scientists of ancient times made a significant contribution to the field of surgery. Among them, Avicenna (980–1037 CE) provided the most detailed presentation of surgical procedures. The present paper aimed to review Avicenna’s great medical encyclopedia, Canon of Medicine, on ratqā (a female genital tract anomaly) related to gynecologic diseases. Avicenna was familiar with different causes of female genital tract anomalies. He described their signs, symptoms, natural courses, treatments and outcomes. He also noted that surgery was the only treatment of imperforate hymen or any type of vaginal agenesis. He elaborated interestingly on the operation instruments, patient positioning before operation, and the operation method, complications, post-operative and follow-up care. Although many surgical procedures described were previously mentioned by his Persian, Arab, Greek or Indian predecessors, he extended their comments and techniques in many ways, which shows that he not onl...
Demodernizzazione come orientalizzazione : il caso dell'Iraq, 2021
Environment and Religion in Ancient and Coptic Egypt: Sensing the Cosmos through the Eyes of the Divine, 2020
Based on Aristotelianism, philosophies in Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and traditional phenomeno... more Based on Aristotelianism, philosophies in Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and traditional phenomenology, Martin Heidegger and late Max Scheler, shared a conceptual understanding of the soul. The plant’s soul – a worldly stage of the individualization of universal creativity - unfolds via the animal towards the human and beyond. The Phenomenology of Life philosophy (Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka) enmeshed the ontopoiesis of the vegetative beingness into the unity-of-everything-there-is-alive, thereby overcoming the discommunicative hierarchization of the soul. An eco-cosmological following of „the plant’s“ ontopoiesis will have to base its understanding not only on the communicative creativity of „the plant“ but on its inseparable interwovenness into the web of life, thereby also taking into consideration newest botanical studies which brought to light insights into so far unknown „intelligence“ of plants.
Introduction Part One Phenomenology of life and metaphysics Section One.- Daniela Verducci A meta... more Introduction Part One Phenomenology of life and metaphysics Section One.- Daniela Verducci A metamorphic logos for post-metaphysics. From the phenomenology of life.- Section Two.- Salahaddin Khalilov The effect of illumination on the way back from Aristotle to Plato.- Simon Farid Oliai The 'High Point' of thought: On the future thrust of all Transcendence.- Section Three.- Konul Bunyadzade The sources of truth in the history of philosophy.- Chris Osegenwune Necessity and Chance: The metaphysical dilemma.- Part Two.- Comparative and cross-cultural approaches Section One.- Olga Louchakova-Schwartz The seal of philosophy: Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life versus Islamic metaphysics.- Angele Kremer-Marietti Confrontation et reconciliation entre l'Islam et l'Occident.- Section Two.- A.L. Samian The Question of Divinity in Newton's and al-Biruni's philosophies of Mathematics: A comparative perspective.- Semiha Akinci Algorithms in the twentieth Century.- Sect...
The completion of the so called Reqonquista of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) went hand in ha... more The completion of the so called Reqonquista of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) went hand in hand with imperialist ambitions of the Spanish Catholic kings towards the wider world. Ceuta (Morocco) was occupied by Portugal in 1415, before Spain conquered the last Arabic-Islamic city of Granada in 1492. The conquest of Abya Yala—as indigenous people called the American continent—followed soon after the Reconquista in Europe which, accompanied by the enslavement of millions of Africans and the penetration of the Portuguese into the Indian Ocean, unhinged the world's balance. In Abya Yala the European conquistadores not only applied the same conduct of war and imposed the same racist purity of blood laws (limpieza de sangre) on the inhabitants as they had in Al-Andalus, they also applied knowledge—first and foremost gained from Arabic sources—to subjugate them. This holds true especially for cartographical and nautical sciences, which flourished for centuries in mainly Arabic-Islam...
The acculturalization of humanities from the late 1980ies onwards led not only to imagined differ... more The acculturalization of humanities from the late 1980ies onwards led not only to imagined different worlds (e.g. West / Islam), postmodernity overshadowed also common grounds of world`s philosophies. Christianity and Islam share far more than what might separate them, and we find Islam in „the West “as Christianity „in the East“. The Logos of Life Philosophy as developed by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (1923-2014) strives towards deciphering the deep layers of philosophy and its common grounds. Tracing back to Gnostic, Platonic (neo-platonic) and Islamic shaped philosophies Ikhwan as-Safa will serve as an example the Logos of Life / Aql Al-Kulli (universal reason) will be historicized in the following while introducing approaches towards a New Enlightenment (A.-T. Tymieniecka) as an alternative to the current crisis in meta-sciences.
... Gholam-Reza A'wani, Reza Davari Ardakani, and Golam Hossein The papers of Seyed Most... more ... Gholam-Reza A'wani, Reza Davari Ardakani, and Golam Hossein The papers of Seyed Mostafa Mohaghghegh Damad, Sayyid Muhammed The papers of Marina Banchetti-Robino, Mohammad Azadpur, Nader El-Bizri, Salahaddin Khalilov, and Mehdi Aminrazavi were ...
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Fuat Sezgin has shown in his deep studies on the history of mathematical geography and cartograph... more Fuat Sezgin has shown in his deep studies on the history of mathematical geography and cartography in Islam and its continuation in the West that during the reign of Abbāsid caliph al-Maʾmūn (813-833 AC) the disciplines had been further developed decisively. The al-Maʾmūn era went hand in hand with an early enlightenment. While introducing a new world view-not least into the history of cartography-European mapmakers started from the mid of the 13th century onwards to adapt the Arabic rational cartography. Against the background of current debates on theoretical approaches towards history of sciences, the contribution will discuss motives behind mapmaking. World maps reflect intentions beyond pure cartographies, thus also with regard to various meta-scientific and extra-scientific objectives. Map-making in Venice in the first quarter of the 14th century was motivated by imperial expansion. The world map of Marino Sanuto (1260-1331) is an outstanding example of early imperial geography and cartography. Geographical and cartographical knowledge of so far unknown regions and oceans, especially the Indian Ocean, was a precondition for expansionist proto-imperialism of European powers in the footsteps of the so-called crusades. In contrast to the travel reports of the Venetian traveller Marco Polo (1254-1324)-still playing an important role in Eurocentric geographies, cartographies and in socalled history of discoveries-the "Secret Book of the Holy Crusade" (liber secretorum fidelium crucis) spoke plainly on the desire to conquer Egypt and Palestine. In the context of resent debates on theoretical approaches towards history of science which mainly discuss problems of e.g. global or entangled history, it will be asked for motivations and intentions of map makers. As history of science and techniques in general, not least history of geography, cartography and so-called
Sharing Poetic Expressions:, 2011
The fable of the ringdove, written by Ibn al-Muqaffa`in the mid of the eighth century, traces bac... more The fable of the ringdove, written by Ibn al-Muqaffa`in the mid of the eighth century, traces back to oldest traditions of conveyance of ethical and moral values, which had been already documented in Old Egypt before spreading all over the world. In Islamic miniatures the ethical values correspond in their written form with the paintings. The visualization is didactic and
Postcolonial Interventions, 2024
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2018
ranks among the scholars of Weimar Classicism who not only appreciated Arabic contributions to th... more ranks among the scholars of Weimar Classicism who not only appreciated Arabic contributions to the universal heritage of sciences but revived a long lost cosmological and universal understanding of sciences, tracing back to flourishing periods of the Abbasids from early 9 th century onwards. A universalistic approach to historical layers of sciences follows long-term developments, retracing historical layers in sciences' history while overcoming outdated Eurocentric concepts of periodization (middle ages, modernity etc.). The Abbasid Era under Caliph Ma'mūn in the first third of 9 th ACE with Baghdad at its center introduced an Early Enlightenment reaching finally Middle Europe. Scientific classifications were approved, interdisciplinary, experimental sciences enhanced and scientific travelling flourished. Alexander Humboldt not only reflected upon Arabic contributions to the universal heritage of sciences but followed up Arabic universalism himself, applying it during his scientific travelling. The Humboldtian approach combined scientific traveling with interdisciplinary observations, determinations (geographic coordinates), and classifications from the very beginnings onwards. When traveling Central Asia in 1829, he especially showed an interest to Arabic contributions in the field of geography and cartography. Humboldt had not only studied Arabic sources on Central Asia but compared historical coordinates with his own measurements. The source studies of Fuat Sezgin (1924-2018) enable nowadays to comprehend the important contributions of Arabic-Islamic geography and cartography, and while contextualizing the rich fund historically, Eurocentric distortions in the history of science, here geography and cartography, losing their relevancy.
From Marx to Global Marxism: Eurocentrism, Resistance, Postcolonial Criticism, 2020
The oeuvre of the 19th-century scholars Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels should not be read canonic... more The oeuvre of the 19th-century scholars Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels should not be read canonically. A critical reading of the Marxian text corpus requires to embed it in a universal historical context not least of revolutionary ideas, theories, and practices. The term “universal” emphasises the spatial and temporal integrity of the world, op- posing dualistic thinking, for example with the imperial juxtaposition “civilisation” versus “barbarianism.” Thus, a Eurocentric world view was also propagated by Marx and Engels.1 Following universalistic approaches in the theory of history (Khella 2008, Peters 1952), the question of dis/continuity in life’s unfolding, including human be- ingness,2 is of importance. The Imperiocene – a term developed in the context of the debates on the human-shaped age of the Anthropocene (UNESCO 2018) – constitutes an auto-destructive disruption in the long history of life. During the course of the 19th century, the Imperiocene began to shape life’s future, leaving a devasting imprint on earth and progressively destroying the balanced macrostructure of the cosmos. In the history of ideas, Marx and Engels left their immaterial mark far beyond this period.
A polylogical reading of Marx from various perspectives of his contemporaries prevents an immanent understanding that remains trapped in a closed hermeneutical circle, should critical, divergent and opposing voices from below and all around the world not be included. A text immanent reading of Marx has the tendency to blank out blind spots and critical aspects in order to recover the systemic construct of “capital- ism,” which had been introduced by Marx and Engels. It seems that later Rosa Lux- emburg had become aware of some inconsistencies and discrepancies within the Marx- ian theory, which however she did not criticise fundamentally.
From Marx to Global Marxism Eurocentrism, Resistance, Postcolonial Criticism, 2020
Reading Marx in his historical context critical (Eurocentrism, Anti-Colonial Resistance).
Increasing calls to decolonize the university brought forward by student-led movements have raise... more Increasing calls to decolonize the university brought forward by student-led movements have raised the question regarding how to reassess the canon of European social and political thought. This article offers a critical but appreciative reading of Gurminder Bhambra's and John Holmwood's Colonialism and Modern Social Theory, based on the first chapter titled "Hobbes to Hegel: Europe and Its Others." It discusses the strategies of intervention into the canon proposed by the authors and argues for complementary strategies of transformation if decolonizing the canon means to move beyond the myths, metaphors, fictions, and false universals of modern European thought.
From Marx to global Marxism. Eurocentrsm, Reistance, Postcolonial Critique, 2020
Introduction to From Marx to global Marxism. Eurocentrsm, Reistance, Postcolonial Critique
Persian scientists of ancient times made a significant contribution to the field of surgery. Amon... more Persian scientists of ancient times made a significant contribution to the field of surgery. Among them, Avicenna (980–1037 CE) provided the most detailed presentation of surgical procedures. The present paper aimed to review Avicenna’s great medical encyclopedia, Canon of Medicine, on ratqā (a female genital tract anomaly) related to gynecologic diseases. Avicenna was familiar with different causes of female genital tract anomalies. He described their signs, symptoms, natural courses, treatments and outcomes. He also noted that surgery was the only treatment of imperforate hymen or any type of vaginal agenesis. He elaborated interestingly on the operation instruments, patient positioning before operation, and the operation method, complications, post-operative and follow-up care. Although many surgical procedures described were previously mentioned by his Persian, Arab, Greek or Indian predecessors, he extended their comments and techniques in many ways, which shows that he not onl...
Demodernizzazione come orientalizzazione : il caso dell'Iraq, 2021
Environment and Religion in Ancient and Coptic Egypt: Sensing the Cosmos through the Eyes of the Divine, 2020
Based on Aristotelianism, philosophies in Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and traditional phenomeno... more Based on Aristotelianism, philosophies in Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and traditional phenomenology, Martin Heidegger and late Max Scheler, shared a conceptual understanding of the soul. The plant’s soul – a worldly stage of the individualization of universal creativity - unfolds via the animal towards the human and beyond. The Phenomenology of Life philosophy (Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka) enmeshed the ontopoiesis of the vegetative beingness into the unity-of-everything-there-is-alive, thereby overcoming the discommunicative hierarchization of the soul. An eco-cosmological following of „the plant’s“ ontopoiesis will have to base its understanding not only on the communicative creativity of „the plant“ but on its inseparable interwovenness into the web of life, thereby also taking into consideration newest botanical studies which brought to light insights into so far unknown „intelligence“ of plants.
Introduction Part One Phenomenology of life and metaphysics Section One.- Daniela Verducci A meta... more Introduction Part One Phenomenology of life and metaphysics Section One.- Daniela Verducci A metamorphic logos for post-metaphysics. From the phenomenology of life.- Section Two.- Salahaddin Khalilov The effect of illumination on the way back from Aristotle to Plato.- Simon Farid Oliai The 'High Point' of thought: On the future thrust of all Transcendence.- Section Three.- Konul Bunyadzade The sources of truth in the history of philosophy.- Chris Osegenwune Necessity and Chance: The metaphysical dilemma.- Part Two.- Comparative and cross-cultural approaches Section One.- Olga Louchakova-Schwartz The seal of philosophy: Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life versus Islamic metaphysics.- Angele Kremer-Marietti Confrontation et reconciliation entre l'Islam et l'Occident.- Section Two.- A.L. Samian The Question of Divinity in Newton's and al-Biruni's philosophies of Mathematics: A comparative perspective.- Semiha Akinci Algorithms in the twentieth Century.- Sect...
The completion of the so called Reqonquista of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) went hand in ha... more The completion of the so called Reqonquista of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) went hand in hand with imperialist ambitions of the Spanish Catholic kings towards the wider world. Ceuta (Morocco) was occupied by Portugal in 1415, before Spain conquered the last Arabic-Islamic city of Granada in 1492. The conquest of Abya Yala—as indigenous people called the American continent—followed soon after the Reconquista in Europe which, accompanied by the enslavement of millions of Africans and the penetration of the Portuguese into the Indian Ocean, unhinged the world's balance. In Abya Yala the European conquistadores not only applied the same conduct of war and imposed the same racist purity of blood laws (limpieza de sangre) on the inhabitants as they had in Al-Andalus, they also applied knowledge—first and foremost gained from Arabic sources—to subjugate them. This holds true especially for cartographical and nautical sciences, which flourished for centuries in mainly Arabic-Islam...
The acculturalization of humanities from the late 1980ies onwards led not only to imagined differ... more The acculturalization of humanities from the late 1980ies onwards led not only to imagined different worlds (e.g. West / Islam), postmodernity overshadowed also common grounds of world`s philosophies. Christianity and Islam share far more than what might separate them, and we find Islam in „the West “as Christianity „in the East“. The Logos of Life Philosophy as developed by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (1923-2014) strives towards deciphering the deep layers of philosophy and its common grounds. Tracing back to Gnostic, Platonic (neo-platonic) and Islamic shaped philosophies Ikhwan as-Safa will serve as an example the Logos of Life / Aql Al-Kulli (universal reason) will be historicized in the following while introducing approaches towards a New Enlightenment (A.-T. Tymieniecka) as an alternative to the current crisis in meta-sciences.
... Gholam-Reza A'wani, Reza Davari Ardakani, and Golam Hossein The papers of Seyed Most... more ... Gholam-Reza A'wani, Reza Davari Ardakani, and Golam Hossein The papers of Seyed Mostafa Mohaghghegh Damad, Sayyid Muhammed The papers of Marina Banchetti-Robino, Mohammad Azadpur, Nader El-Bizri, Salahaddin Khalilov, and Mehdi Aminrazavi were ...
Erdem
Fuat Sezgin has shown in his deep studies on the history of mathematical geography and cartograph... more Fuat Sezgin has shown in his deep studies on the history of mathematical geography and cartography in Islam and its continuation in the West that during the reign of Abbāsid caliph al-Maʾmūn (813-833 AC) the disciplines had been further developed decisively. The al-Maʾmūn era went hand in hand with an early enlightenment. While introducing a new world view-not least into the history of cartography-European mapmakers started from the mid of the 13th century onwards to adapt the Arabic rational cartography. Against the background of current debates on theoretical approaches towards history of sciences, the contribution will discuss motives behind mapmaking. World maps reflect intentions beyond pure cartographies, thus also with regard to various meta-scientific and extra-scientific objectives. Map-making in Venice in the first quarter of the 14th century was motivated by imperial expansion. The world map of Marino Sanuto (1260-1331) is an outstanding example of early imperial geography and cartography. Geographical and cartographical knowledge of so far unknown regions and oceans, especially the Indian Ocean, was a precondition for expansionist proto-imperialism of European powers in the footsteps of the so-called crusades. In contrast to the travel reports of the Venetian traveller Marco Polo (1254-1324)-still playing an important role in Eurocentric geographies, cartographies and in socalled history of discoveries-the "Secret Book of the Holy Crusade" (liber secretorum fidelium crucis) spoke plainly on the desire to conquer Egypt and Palestine. In the context of resent debates on theoretical approaches towards history of science which mainly discuss problems of e.g. global or entangled history, it will be asked for motivations and intentions of map makers. As history of science and techniques in general, not least history of geography, cartography and so-called
Sharing Poetic Expressions:, 2011
The fable of the ringdove, written by Ibn al-Muqaffa`in the mid of the eighth century, traces bac... more The fable of the ringdove, written by Ibn al-Muqaffa`in the mid of the eighth century, traces back to oldest traditions of conveyance of ethical and moral values, which had been already documented in Old Egypt before spreading all over the world. In Islamic miniatures the ethical values correspond in their written form with the paintings. The visualization is didactic and