Fatima Grimm

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Fatima Grimm
Born
Helga Lili Wolff

(1934-07-25)25 July 1934
Munich, Nazi Germany
Died6 May 2013(2013-05-06) (aged 78)
Hamburg, Germany
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Translator, author and speaker on the subject of Islam in Germany

Fatima Grimm (25 July 1934 – 6 May 2013) was a German translator, author and speaker on the subject of Islam. She gained prominence 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, Karl Wolff, wartime Chief of Staff to Heinrich Himmler.[1] In 1960 she converted to the Islamic creed in the Munich apartment of Ibrahim Gacaoglu.[2] In 1962, Grimm moved to Czechoslovakia with her then-husband Omar Abdul Aziz, a Czech Muslim. Three years later she returned with her husband to Germany, where she was involved in the Munich municipality. Grimm and her husband divorced in 1983. On 1 April 1984, she married the widowed German convert Abdulkarim Grimm (1933–2009) and moved to Hamburg with him.[3]

In the following decades, Grimm wrote and translated several books and wrote numerous articles, some of which appeared in the Al-Islam magazine. For several years Grimm was also in charge of the magazine.[4] As a journalist Grimm devoted herself mainly to issues such as education and the role of women in Islam. A short-lived children's magazine, You and Islam,[5]) was managed by her.[2]

In addition, Grimm worked on a German translation of the

Shiites.[8] She worked for almost 16 years on 24 booklets of Al-Islam and in five volumes in SKD Bavaria, which the publisher of Abdel-Halim Khafagy published.[6] Grimm's translation belongs alongside that of Muhammad Rassoul. Muhammed, who was from Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD), wrote a guide for translating the Qur'an in 1999.[9] According to the guide "oRIENTation," of the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Free University of Berlin, Grimm's translation was a good traditionalist and interpretive translation, and was "to the purpose of mission for orientation," describes the studies, which say she was "not recommended".[10] The website of the ZMD, islam.de, called Grimm's Koran translation, which was accompanied by contemporary comments, her "probably greatest legacy." It states that it is the first jointly Sunnis and Shiite-developed Koran translation into German. "Islamic scholars have not dealt with their work," but "in the new departments for Islamic theology," wrote Hamida Behr in her obituary for Grimm.[11]

A few weeks before his death in 1984, Grimm's father, Karl Wolff, made the Islamic profession of faith. At his grave, his daughter gave the funeral prayer in the presence of representatives of the Islamic Center of Munich (ICM).[1]

From April 1999, Grimm was an honorary member of the advisory board of the ZMD.[12] In addition, she and her husband Abdul Karim[13] sat on the board of the German Muslim League eV Hamburg, and was a member of the Liberal Islamic Federation.[13]

Grimm came to prominence because of a lecture that she gave for the first time in 1975, which was published in 1995 under the title The Education of Our Children from IZM.[14] This "controversial publication of Fatima Grimm" is characterized as a lack of Islamic education, which is causing the growth of children as a "mass of half-educated nationalists, communists or humanists."[15][16]

Khadija Katja Wöhler-Khalfallah quotes Grimm in an essay on woman and family life in Islam written by her with Aisha Lemu as an example of fundamentalist, anti-secular and jihadist polemics: " [...] This effort (jihad), can presently be carried out both with the sword and with the feather, 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 aim 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."[17]

The Constitutional Protection Report 2010 of the Baden-Württemberg State Office for State Protection noted that in one written by Grimm and published by IZM, it advocated the reintroduction of the Hadd punishments.[18]

Grimm had a daughter, deceased in childhood, and a son from her first marriage, and three stepchildren from her second marriage.[19] She died on the evening of 6 May 2013 following a long illness in Hamburg.[13]

Publications

References

  1. ^ a b Stefan Meining (2011). Eine Moschee in Deutschland. Nazis, Geheimdienste und der Aufstieg des politischen Islam im Westen. Munich: Beck Verlag. p. 151.
  2. ^ a b c Meining 2011, p. 152.
  3. ^ "Rückblick auf ein bewegtes Leben: die IZ im Gespräch mit Fatima Grimm". Islamische Zeitung. 27 July 2010.
  4. ^ Lebenslauf Fatima Grimm vom Zentralrat der Muslime in Deutschland e.V., 24 November 2013 (online).
  5. ^ ZDB-ID 1245133-2
  6. ^ a b "Fatima Grimm: Die vollständige Übersetzung des ganzen Qurans! Mitteilung auf der ehemaligen Website des SKD Bavaria Verlages". Archived from the original on 30 September 2002. Retrieved 10 June 2018. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ Ahmad von Denffer (Islamic Center of Munich): History of the Translation of the Meanings of the Qur'an in Germany up to the Year 2000. A Bibliographic Survey, p. 34 (PDF)
    • Also refer to Ismet Binark and Halit Eren: World Bibliography of translations of the meanings of the Holy Qur'an: printed translations 1515–1980. Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture, Istanbul 1986, No. 860/71.
  8. ^ Murad Wilfried Hofmann (Spring 2002). "German Translations of the Holy Qur'ān". Islamic Studies. Vol. 41, no. 1. Islamabad: Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University. p. 93.
  9. ^ Irka-Christin Mohr: Islamischer Religionsunterricht in Europa. Lehrtexte als Instrumente muslimischer Selbstverortung im Vergleich. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2006, pp. 68–69.
  10. ^ Johann Büssow, Stefan Rosiny and Christian Saßmannshausen: ORIENTierung: Ein Leitfaden für (werdende) IslamwissenschaftlerInnen an der FU Berlin. 7th edition, Summer 2013, Berlin, p. 25. ("Archived copy" (PDF). wayback: 20160304205312. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link))
  11. ^ "Fatima Grimm: Ihr Leben kommentiert den Koran – Nachruf von Hamida Behr". islam.de. 13 May 2013.
  12. ^ Gremien und Mitglieder des ZMD. Stand: 1999 (online).
  13. ^ a b c Liberal-Islamischer Bund e.V.: Zum Tode unseres Mitglieds Fatima Grimm, 7 May 2013 (online).
  14. ^ ZDK Gesellschaft Demokratische Kultur gGmbH; Projektbereich Zentrum Demokratische Kultur „CommunityCoaching" (eds.). Claudia Dantschke and Claudia Luzar: Aspekte der Demokratiegefährdung in Berlin-Mitte und Möglichkeiten der Intervention. Eine Kommunalanalyse im Berliner Bezirk Mitte. Nachfolgestudie der ersten Untersuchung im Jahr 2004. Schriftenreihe des Zentrum Demokratische Kultur. ZDK Gesellschaft Demokratische Kultur GmbH, Berlin 2007, p. 35. (PDF Archived 4 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine)
  15. ^ Meining 2011, p. 153f.
  16. ^ Fatima Grimm: Die Erziehung unserer Kinder. Munich 1995, p. 2. Cited by Müller 2007, p. 49.
  17. ^ Die Islamische Gemeinschaft in Deutschland IGD (ed.). Aisha B. Lemu and Fatima Grimm: Frau und Familienleben im Islam. Schriftenreihe des islamischen Zentrum in Munich, 2005, p. 43, cited in Khadija Katja Wöhler-Khalfallah: Islamischer Fundamentalismus. Von der Urgemeinde bis zur Deutschen Islamkonferenz. Schiler, Berlin 2009, p. 227.
    • Compare Müller 2007, p. 50f and Herbert Landolin Müller (2007). "Jenseits von Schleier und Kopftuch: Islamistisches Menschenbild und Rolle der Frau als Herausforderung einer freiheitlichen Gesellschaft?". In Armin Pfahl-Traughber; Monika Rose-Stahl (eds.). Festschrift zum 25-jährigen Bestehen der Schule für Verfassungsschutz und für Andreas Hübsch. Brühl/Rheinland: Fachhochschule des Bundes für Öffentliche Verwaltung, Fachbereich Öffentliche Sicherheit. p. 368. ("Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link))
  18. urn:nbn:de:bsz:boa-ae12b5ae-8df7-4c7e-ace2-55e3b23d423f5
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  19. ^ "Literaturempfehlung Islam".

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