INCISE seminar series: Islam and Social Jusitice – Lecture by Sheikha Halima Krausen

The new research centre (INCISE – Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice) is to hold its first seminar in the Islam and Social Justice Series. Events will take place bi-weekly and is kicked off on the 17th of October by Sheikha Halima Krausen (Hamburg Univerisity)

Born in Aachen, Germany, Halima Krausen was raised by a Catholic-Protestant family but became Muslim in her early teens. Now, Krausen is the Imam of Hamburg Mosque for the German-speaking Muslims. Studying with visiting Muslim scholars and learning Arabic, Krausen eventually travelled extensively in the Muslim world.

In 1985, Krausen became a founding member of the Inter-Religious Dialogue Centre at the Department of Theology at Hamburg University. In 1993, she helped found the Initiative for Islamic Studies and became head of the German-speaking community.

In 1992, Krausen completed her studies in Islamic Law and Theology, Islamic Studies, Christian Theology and Comparative Religion. Also, Krausen was involved with the team that created German translations of the Qur’an with commentary. She also conducted a partial translation of the Hadith. She contributed to several books (including World Religions, Central Themes in Comparison, edited by Professor Bee Scherer, director of INCISE) on interfaith studies and wrote a number of articles on various Islamic and inter-religious subjects. She teaches regularly in London and across Europe and is particularly interested in inter-faith dialogue. She joined a circle that involved Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, and Muslim experts who were interested in taking dialogue past the intellectual and applying it to culture.