Der Islam im Deutschen Lesebuch

The research library started digitising its historical textbook collection in 2012 as part of a long-term project called GEI-Digital.
The GEI research library began digitising its collection of reading primers from the German imperial period in October 2017, as part of a collaborative project led by Prof. Christian Dawidowski at Osnabrück University for the research project ‘Der Islam im Deutschen Lesebuch. Eine Analyse der Islamdiskurse 1870-1918‘ (Islam in German Primers: An Analysis of Discourse on Islam 1870―1918).

Through its research and description of interpretive patterns this joint project contributes significantly to a phenomenographic study of ‘Muslim foreigners’. This investigates whether current images of Islam can be decoded as products of historical scholastic mediation processes.

Project Website

• GEI-Digital http://gei-digital.gei.de/viewer/
• Der Islam im Deutschen Lesebuch. Eine Analyse der Islamdiskurse 1870-1918

Project Team

• Anke Hertling (Projektleitung)
• Sebastian Klaes (Projektkoordination)
• Philip Burkhardt (SHK)
• Jessica Martensen (WHK)
  
• Ulrich Pramme
• Claudia Schmitz
• Nadine Towara

Project Cooperations

• Universität Osnabrück
• Gauss-IT-Zentrum der TU Braunschweig

Project Duration

• 2017 - 2020

Funding

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)