Baron Omar Rolf Von Ehrenfels - Texts Available in Context Thanks To Digitisation

Texts Available in Context Thanks To Digitisation

The Internet and digitisation revolution of this century has had positive effects on the knowledge and appreciation of the lifetime achievements of Umar Rolf Ehrenfels. He appears both in the aspect as a Muslim and Islamologist and as a Vienna University trained professional social scientist working at Madras University (1949–61) and Heidelberg University (1961- c. 1975) doing scientific, published fieldwork in South Asia 1932- 1964. The World Catalog http://worldcat.org database, although only primary, leads to several titles. Most of Ehrenfels' articles written for the Moslemische Revue in Berlin can now be read http://berlin.ahmadiyya.org/m-rev/index.htm This is the only genuine journal published in by the Berlin Mosque. The name was taken by others later. Umar Rolf Ehrenfels is included in the book Islam Our Choice first edition May 1961 is online. http://aaiil.org/text/books/kk/islamourchoicemuslimconvertstories/islamourchoicemuslimconvertstories.pdf Dr. Ehrenfels expressed his Muslim faith as it had crystallized over the years in the article The How and Why of Conversion to Islam published in June, 1961 in the Islamic Review, Woking. http://www.wokingmuslim.org/work/islamic_review/index.htm A fact box contains his life story. In 1967 the article was translated into German published in the Al Muslim, Frankfurt/M. By that time Dr. Ehrenfels' work at the Heidelberg University South Asia Institute as a guest professor employed as a Senior Research Fellow Ehrenfels had made him move even further. From his conversion on he saw Islam as a world encompassing unifying link of mankind. Over the years he deepened his understanding and experiencing other religious forms into sharing the mystical oneness. A quiet revolution is The Million Book Project or the Universal Library Million Book Project. It is a book digitization project, led by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Working with government and research partners in India (Digital Library of India) and China, the project is scanning books in many languages, using OCR to enable full text searching, and providing free-to-read access to the books on the web. In 2007 they had completed the scanning of 1 million books and have made the entire database accessible. After his escape from the Nazi terror in Austria after March 1938 Dr. Ehrenfels was received as the Guest of the Nizam's Government thanks to Sir Akbar Haydari. In 1939 Ehrenfels wrote "Indian and general anthropology for the layman", a two volume textbook for the students of anthropology he was planned to have at the Osmania University in Hyderabad. It was translated into Urdu, the educational language of the university, as Ilmul Aqvam 280 + 197 printed pages. It was published in Delhi by a'njuman e taraq y e a'rdv dhly in December 1941. Digitisation was made October 22, 2010. The Urdu translator's name say ad 'a'bid h'usain was by mistake given as the author's name. The Hyderabad textbook Ilmul Aqvam written by Dr. Ehrenfels can now be read online by Urdu readers all over the world. For some reason the University of Wisconsin Library at Madison has a copy of Ilmul Aqvam . The author's name is there given as Daktar Bairan Umar Ralf Ehranfels and the translator as Daktar Sayyid Husain Sahib. The unusual spelling may explain why the copy has been hard to find. See links below.

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