Lamya Kaddor

Lamya Kaddor, 2015

Lamya Kaddor (born 1978 in Ahlen) is a German scholar of Islamic studies of Syrian ancestry, a writer and founder and chairwoman of the Liberal-Islamic Association (LIB e.V.).[1] She is known for introducing Islamic education in German in public schools in Germany.[2] Together with Rabeya Müller she has published the first German Qur'an translation for children and adults: "Der Koran für Kinder und Erwachsene".[3] Furthermore she is initiator and editor of the first German school book for Islamic education called "Saphir".[4] Especially since 2014 she works on the subject of Salafism and Islamism. Five of her former students volunteered for jihad in Syria, which Lamya Kaddor perceived as a personal defeat.[5]

She taught Islamic education in a secondary school in Dinslaken in North Rhine-Westphalia.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Liberal-Islamischer Bund". Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  2. ↑ "Koran ohne Schleier" (in German). Retrieved 2008-08-18.
  3. ↑ "Der Koran für Kinder und Erwachsene". Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  4. ↑ "Saphir". Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ "Religion Research". Retrieved 2008-08-18.
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