Between the Kulturkampf and Politikkampf: Recalling two late Muslim Intellectuals

Abstract

In March, 2016, two symbolic figures of the modern Islamic thought died – Taha Jabir Al-Alwani (b.2016) and Hassan At-Turabi (b.1932). They were two very different persons, theologians and thinkers, which embodied a whole epoch in the history of the modern Islamic ideological and socio-political movements. There is something mystic in that they passed away almost simultaneously.