Recent Evaluation of World Views On Islam Including Umar Rolf Ehrenfels
The possibilities given by modern technology combined with new ways of thinking have resulted in a rediscovery of Umar Rolf Ehrenfels as a pioneering promoter of tolerant, peaceful Islam as a unifying and liberating force, also for women.
The greatest contributions in the field of rediscovery are being made by the Austrian socio- political scientist Professor Dr. Arno Tausch (born 1951) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Tausch http://iprd.org.uk/?page_id=30. He is one of the founders of quantitative world system and development research in Europe. Umar Rolf Ehrenfels from the age of 26 expressed his joy in belonging to Islam, a "world encompassing community" naturally including women as equals. Dr. Tausch and his colleagues have developed a method to study Islam as a "world system". The immanent principle is "Asabiyya", the idea of a coherent society based on common values first coded by the political philosopher Ibn Chaldoun (born 1332 in Tunis, dead 1406 in Cairo.
The most important book by Dr. Tausch so far is What 1.3 billion Muslims really think: an answer to a recent Gallup study, based on the World Values Survey published in 2009 in New York by Nova Science Publishers. It was preceded in 2008 by Dr. Tausch's book Muslim values, global values. Empirical data from "World Values Survey" 666 pages available online at http://www.social-sciences-and-humanities.com/PDF/tausch_muslim_values.pdf Dr. Tausch openly declares himself as a Catholic active for Liberation theology and interfaith understanding. The motto of the books is a Declaration by Pope Paul VI (1897- 1978) Pope Paul VI from October 28, 1965 starting: "The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems." The books contain a 50 pages long bibliography of relevant books and articles. Two names may be mentioned: Almas Heshmati (b.1954) Almas Heshmati http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/personnel/vitae/heshmati_cv.pdf and Bassam Tibi (born 1944) Bassam Tibi
It is obvious how scientific work processes have been renewed. Researchers expand beyond the narrow frames of traditional university departments. Interdisciplinary outlooks give panoramic views of political science, economics and world history. Dr. Tausch's research program is focused on the world systems theory World-systems theory extending from Immanuel Wallerstein Immanuel Wallerstein (b. 1930) (ref) and the French historical Annales school with Fernand Braudel Fernand Braude (1902- 1985) as forerunner. A study center at Binghamton University New York State works in this spirit.
An important meeting ground for the world system scientists working with Dr. Tausch is IZA, Institute for the study of labour http://www.iza.org in Bonn, Germany started in 1998. It is an international network of 1200 economists and researchers in 45 countries. Their goal is making academic sciences improve political practice.
In the introductory part of the books on global Muslim values Dr. Tausch writes about Umar Rolf Ehrenfels: "Only now, the importance of his theories becomes fully appreciated." He quotes Ehrenfels' 1961 Islamic Review article on The Why and How of Conversion to Islam. It is not by coincidence that Dr. Tausch grounds his research in holistic perspectives. At the bottom of the world systems theory that Dr. Tausch applies there is a unifying school of thinking. Dr. Tausch demonstrates what a useful tool for the social sciences Rolf's father Christian Ehrenfels (1859- 1932), professor of philosophy at the University of Prague, worked out when he developed the theory of Gestalt from 1890 on. Professor Barry Smith (b. June 4, 1952) Barry Smith (ontologist) edited a collection of essays with a commented bibliography of 250 pages, which clarify the multiple ways of the theory. The title is Foundations of Gestalt theory published in 1988 in Wien, Muenchen by Philosophia Verlag. Umar Rolf Ehrenfels applied his father's basic view on Gestalt as Ganzheiten (holistic units) regarding socio- cultural anthropology. Thus Umar Rolf Ehrenfels could see other patterns within the study fields that occupied him all his life: Islam and global human rights.
Thanks to global co-operation and strong computers the holistic theory could be expanded to become one of world systems examining an intricate web of indicators presented in the writings by Arno Tausch and his colleagues. The long- wave history perspectives open as the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University celebrates its 50 years. http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/50years
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