Stefan Weidner
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Stefan Weidner

Stefan Weidner, born in 1967, lives in Cologne where he works as author, translator and editor-in-chief of a magazine published in Arabic, Persian and English. In 2007, he was awarded the Johann Heinrich Voß Prize by the German Academy for Language and Poetry for his translation of Arabic poems; in 2006, he was awarded the Clemens Brentano Prize for his essay Mohammedanische Versuchungen.

Stefan Weidner, born in 1967, lives in Cologne where he works as author, translator and editor-in-chief of a magazine published in Arabic, Persian and English. In 2007, he was awarded the Johann Heinrich Voß Prize by the German Academy for Language and Poetry for his translation of Arabic poems; in 2006, he was awarded the Clemens Brentano Prize for his essay Mohammedanische Versuchungen.

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Manual for the Clash of Cultures
Year of Publication: 2008
Stefan WeidnerYear of Publication: 2008

Manual for the Clash of Cultures

In the mid 1990s when Samuel Huntington presented his theory on the clash of cultures, he was met by widespread repudiation. Meanwhile, the conflict with Islam has estab-lished itself in the media as an ongoing issue and one cannot but speak of a real clash of cultures.


The conflict has shaken our selfconfidence no less than that of Muslims because it mercilessly exposes that the two...