Dr. Darius Asghar-Zadeh

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Research Focus
  • Comparative Theology / Interreligious Theology
  • Peace and Conflict Studies
  • Christian-Muslim Relations
  • Intercultural Zeitgeist-Hermeneutics and Future Studies
  • Christian Systematic Theology (Foundational Theology and Dogmatics) and Muslim Systematic Theology (Kalām), Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Theology
  • Intercultural Medical Ethics
Dr. Darius Asghar-Zadeh
Miscellaneous
Since 04/2021

Postdoctoral researcher

at the Center for Comparative Theology and Cultural Studies (ZeKK)/ Paderborn University

Since 10/2016

Habilitation project

“Relational Ontology and Interreligious Theology: Towards a New Concept of Interfaith Hermeneutics” at the Institute of Catholic Theology / Paderborn University

04/2018 - 03/2021

Postdoctoral researcher

at the Center for Islamic Theology / University of Münster

04/2017 - 03/2018

Resarch associate

in the DFG-Projekt “Jesus in the Quran” at the Center for Islamic Theology / University of Münster

04/2016 - 09/2016

Lecturer

at the Center for Interreligious Studies (CIS)/ University of Bamberg

07/2016

PhD degree

in Comparative Theology at Paderborn University (summa cum laude)

10/2011 - 03/2016

PhD project

“Christianity and Islam in Theological-Anthropological Interreligiousness: A Comparative Theology of the God-Man-Relationship Conceptualized in Terms of the History of Ideas and the Discourse of Time” (supervision by Prof. Dr. Klaus von Stosch, Prof. Dr. Johanna Rahner und Prof. Dr. Reza Hajatpour)

04/2013 - 09/2013

Lecturer

at the Center for Interreligious Studies (CIS)/University of Bamberg

08/2011

MA degree

in “Catholic Theology”, “Islamic Studies” and “English” (final grade: 1,0) at the University of Bamberg

10/2007 - 08/2011

Studies

in “Catholic Theology”, “Islamic Studies” and “English” at the University of Bamberg

Since 04/2021

Postdoctoral researcher

at the Center for Comparative Theology and Cultural Studies (ZeKK)/ Paderborn University

Since 10/2016

Habilitation project

“Relational Ontology and Interreligious Theology: Towards a New Concept of Interfaith Hermeneutics” at the Institute of Catholic Theology / Paderborn University

04/2018 - 03/2021

Postdoctoral researcher

at the Center for Islamic Theology / University of Münster

04/2017 - 03/2018

Resarch associate

in the DFG-Projekt “Jesus in the Quran” at the Center for Islamic Theology / University of Münster

04/2016 - 09/2016

Lecturer

at the Center for Interreligious Studies (CIS)/ University of Bamberg

07/2016

PhD degree

in Comparative Theology at Paderborn University (summa cum laude)

10/2011 - 03/2016

PhD project

“Christianity and Islam in Theological-Anthropological Interreligiousness: A Comparative Theology of the God-Man-Relationship Conceptualized in Terms of the History of Ideas and the Discourse of Time” (supervision by Prof. Dr. Klaus von Stosch, Prof. Dr. Johanna Rahner und Prof. Dr. Reza Hajatpour)

04/2013 - 09/2013

Lecturer

at the Center for Interreligious Studies (CIS)/University of Bamberg

08/2011

MA degree

in “Catholic Theology”, “Islamic Studies” and “English” (final grade: 1,0) at the University of Bamberg

10/2007 - 08/2011

Studies

in “Catholic Theology”, “Islamic Studies” and “English” at the University of Bamberg

Book

Menschsein im Angesicht des Absoluten. Theologische Anthropologie in der Perspektive christlich-muslimischer Komparativer Theologie, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh 2017 (Contributions to Comparative Theology, vol. 29).

Essays and articles

“Divine Action and Future Knowledge. Islamic Philosophical Theology in Discussion with Christian Open Theism,” in: John E. Sanders/Klaus von Stosch (Hg.): Divine Action: Challenges for Muslim and Christian Theology, Paderborn: Brill 2021 (forthcoming).

“Jesus im Islam. Zum Verständnis eines interreligiösen Primärfaktors,” in: Salzburger Theologische Zeitschrift 2 (2021, forthcoming).

“Wie geht der Islam mit dem Thema Leid um?,” in: Theologisch-praktische Quartalschrift 168.1 (2020), 32-42.

“Interreligious Peacebuilding through Comparative Theology,” in: International Journal on World Peace 36.3 (2019), 57-82.

“Zur Möglichkeit eines gemeinsamen theologischen Sprechens von Christen und Muslimen. Konturen interreligiöser Theoriebildung,” in: CIBEDO-Beiträge 3 (2019), 128-135.

“God’s Self-Revelation in the Islamic tradition?,” in: Mouhanad Khorchide/Klaus von Stosch: The Other ProphetJesus in the Qur’an. Tr. by Simon Pare. London: Gingko 2019, 159-166.

“On the Soteriological Relevance of the Qur’an,” in: Mouhanad Khorchide/Klaus von Stosch: The Other ProphetJesus in the Qur’an. Tr. by Simon Pare. London: Gingko 2019, 176-184.

“Selbstoffenbarung Gottes in der islamischen Tradition?,” in: Mouhanad Khorchide/Klaus von Stosch: Der andere Prophet. Jesus im Koran, Freiburg i. Br.: Herder 2018, 229-241.

“Zur soteriologischen Relevanz des Korans,” in: Mouhanad Khorchide/Klaus von Stosch: Der andere Prophet. Jesus im Koran, Freiburg i. Br.: Herder 2018, 254-264.

“Arabisch-islamische Philosophie: Ibn Sīnā, al-Ġazālī und Ibn Rušd,” in: Martin Breul/Aaron Langenfeld (Hg.): Kleine Philosophiegeschichte. Eine Einführung für das Theologiestudium, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh 2017 (UTB), 54-66.

“Der Koran als locus alienus der christlichen Frage nach Jesus. Überlegungen zur Deutungsoffenheit des Koran in komparativ-theologischer Perspektive,” in: Klaus von Stosch/Mouhanad Khorchide (Hg.): Streit um Jesus. Muslimische und christliche Annäherungen, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh 2016 (Contributions to Comparative Theology, vol. 21), 81-96.