The idea that the world can be explained on the basis of itself is self-evident in European thinking and includes interpretations of being human. In Islam, it is different. The Quran announces Allah as the unremitting creator of the cosmos and human fate. By looking at numerous sources, the author shows how this truth of faith has been interpreted in the history of the Islamic understanding of the human.

Tilman Nagel (em.), University of Göttingen, Germany.