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Abraham Meets Ibrahim

Journeys through the Bible and the Quran
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Abraham Meets Ibrahim / Abraham trifft Ibrahîm
Journeys through the Bible and the Quran
From Abraham to Eve, from Noah to Satan

»After all, it’s not every day that you experience distress at sea and get rescued by a whale.«

A highly dramatic scene: a father leans over the defenceless boy, the knife flashing in his hand – when, at the last moment, an angel orders him to sacrifice a ram instead of his own son. The biblical story of Abraham and Isaac is well-known. That it caused the philosopher Kierkegaard a sleepless night at the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, during which a divine power appeared to him to discuss the question of mercy – this is something only Sibylle Lewitscharoff knows. How the Quran deals with...

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A highly dramatic scene: a father leans over the defenceless boy, the knife flashing in his hand – when, at the last moment, an angel orders him to sacrifice a ram instead of his own son. The biblical story of Abraham and Isaac is well-known. That it caused the philosopher Kierkegaard a sleepless night at the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, during which a divine power appeared to him to discuss the question of mercy – this is something only Sibylle Lewitscharoff knows. How the Quran deals with this material in turn, how it relegates Isaac to the background and elevates Abraham’s firstborn Ismail to his position instead, that’s what Najem Wali tells us about.


From Abraham to Eve, from Noah to Satan: powerful writer and theologist Sibylle Lewitscharoff and Iraqi-German author Najem Wali have chosen eight figures from the Bible and the Quran. They each trace their stories from their respective point of view, spirited, enthusiastically, not missing the occasional nod to irony. They wonder about divine justice with worry-stricken Job, about courage and tolerance with Jonah, the frightened whale traveler and with the ensuing dialogue between the world religions, they touch upon the hot spots of our times.

»This book is a jewel, above all thanks to the brilliant texts to which Sibylle Lewitscharoff was enticed on account of the figures selected. You only wish she would bring even more Biblical figures back to life through her linguistic power and imagination.« Wolfgang Huber, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»This book is a jewel, above all thanks to the brilliant texts to which Sibylle Lewitscharoff was enticed on account of the figures selected. You only wish she would bring even more Biblical figures back to life through her linguistic power and imagination.« Wolfgang Huber, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

2018, 309 pages
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff, born in Stuttgart in 1954 to a Bulgarian father and a German mother, read religious studies in Berlin, where she lived after staying in Buenos Aires and Paris for extended periods. She was awarded numerous prizes for her literary work. Lewitscharoff died on May 14, 2023 in Berlin.

 

Sibylle Lewitscharoff, born in Stuttgart in 1954 to a Bulgarian father and a German mother, read religious studies in Berlin, where she lived after...

Najem Wali was born in Basra, Iraq, in 1956. He fled to Germany in 1980, after the beginning of the Iran–Iraq War. After studying in Hamburg and Madrid, he now lives in Berlin where he works as an author and journalist. He was a correspondent for the Arabic daily newspaper Al Hayat and still writes for Süddeutsche Zeitung, Der Spiegel and DIE ZEIT, among others.

Najem Wali was born in Basra, Iraq, in 1956. He fled to Germany in 1980, after the beginning of the Iran–Iraq War. After studying in Hamburg...


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Arabic world rights (Fawasel)

The Miracle of Pentecost
Year of Publication: 2016
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France (Piranha)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Audiobuch); German Entire Radio Reading (NDR)

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Year of Publication: 2014
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France (Piranha), Italy (Del Vecchio)

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Year of Publication: 2013
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Year of Publication: 2011
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English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Adriana Hidalgo), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai Translation Publishing House), France (Les Belles Lettres), Italy (Del Vecchio Editore), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Slovenia (Sodobnost)

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Year of Publication: 2009
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English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Hidalgo), Chinese simplex rights (Beijing Qingyan), Chinese complex rights (China Times Publishing), France (Piranha), Italy (Del Vecchio Editore), Hungary (Bookart), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Republic of Moldova / Romanian Rights (Cartier), Estonia (Atlex), Serbia (Presing Izdavastvo), Macedonia (Ars Lamina)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Bertelsmann), German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag)


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News
Author Sibylle Lewitscharoff died on May 13, 2023, at the age of 69.
News
04.06.2013
The German Academy for Language and Literature has awarded the Georg Büchner Prize 2013 to our author Sibylle Lewitscharoff.