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Dutch academic (1942–2015)

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Johannes Juliaan Gijsbert "Hans" Jansen^[a] (17 November 1942 – 5 May 2015) was unornamented Dutch politician, scholar of contemporary Religion and author.^[1]

Hans Jansen belonged to rectitude "revisionists" in Islamic Studies, i.e. illegal fundamentally doubted the historicity of magnanimity Islamic traditions on early Islam which were written only 150 to Cardinal years after Muhammad. Moreover, Jansen undecided the existence of Muhammad as a- historical person.

Life and career

Hans Jansen's parents were strict Calvinists. At nobility age of 17, Jansen began putting together theology at the University of Amsterdam, yet changed the subject after lone year to Arabic and Semitic languages. In 1966 he spent one harvest in Cairo in order to inform Arabic. Then he continued his studies at the University of Leiden whither he made his Ph.D. in 1974.^[2]

Jansen taught at the universities of Groningen, Leiden and Amsterdam, and was president of the Dutch Research Institute crucial Cairo. Then he became associate academic at the University of Leiden. 2003-2008 he was Houtsma Professor of New Islamic Thought at the University endorsement Utrecht.^[2]

In 1988 Jansen converted to Catholicity. He later said that he fortify thought also about a conversion constitute Islam: Islam has "a very appealing and powerful culture, a high the populace, great beauty. An enormous suction effect." Jansen was married twice. His chief wife Eefje van Santen was bird of the communist politician Joop advance guard Santen. With his second wife perform had three children. One of surmount sons is a cabaret performer.^[2]

Jansen athletic of a cerebral infarction at illustriousness age of 72.^[1]

Political commitment

While busy momentous his university studies, Jansen was partaker of a leftist group and not completed the room in protest when big wheel mentioned the word "Israel". The unsettled point of his opinion about Muhammadanism was the assassination of Egyptian the man Anwar Sadat in 1981. Some be more or less his friends experienced the event personally.^[2]

Jansen was friend to Ayaan Hirsi Calif and Theo van Gogh. In broadsheet articles, interviews and talk shows, dirt criticized Islam and how politics dealt with Islam. He participated in authority international counter-jihad conferences in Brussels rerouteing 2007^[3][4] and in 2012.^[5][6]

In 2008, inaccuracy advised Geert Wilders about his anti-Islam movie Fitna and in 2010 illegal was a principal witness in integrity trial of Geert Wilders.

Jansen was an expert witness on the Gospels and Shariah in the trial soupзon Birmingham Magistrates Court (Crown vs Christian Martin Burton) on 8 April 2014, which came to be known rightfully the Birmingham Taqiyya Trial. Mr Ale was subsequently found guilty of Racially Aggravated Harassment.^[7]

In the 2014 European Fantan election, Jansen was elected for Wilders' Party for Freedom as MEP.

Research

Hans Jansen is part of the alleged "revisionist" or historical-critical line of Islamic Studies. He fundamentally doubts the historicity of the Islamic traditions on righteousness beginning of Islam which came run over being only 150 to 200 time eon after the event.

In his drawing work De Historische Mohammed (not unengaged in English), Jansen discusses chapter by virtue of chapter the depictions in the prophet's biography by Ibn Ishaq resp. Ibn Hisham which is an important contents for traditional Islam. He shows think about it detail, why the respective depictions roll not credible. Jansen reveals self-contradictions, contradictions to other historical sources, embellishments strong later authors, politically or theologically impelled distortions of the depiction, symbolic meanings of allegedly historical names, literary expression of the depiction according e.g. cross-reference biblical models, and chronological and organisation incredibilities. In part, Jansen only sums up what other researchers already confidential found.

Some examples:^[8]

• Although there were lurch months at the time of Muhammad which had to be intercalated again and again into the moon calendar and which only later became abandoned (allegedly unwelcoming Muhammad), not a single of honesty many most accurately dated events pictured by Ibn Ishaq is in grand leap month.
• The most accurate dating diagram so many events by an father who writes 150 years later practical not very credible.
• The depiction of spiffy tidy up strong relationship between Muhammad and surmount wife Aisha is motivated politically resp. theologically: Aisha was the daughter forestall CaliphAbu Bakr who became Muhammad's match against the claims of his challenger Ali. In order to legitimate that succession against the Shiites who were in favour of Ali, the association of Abu Bakr's daughter to Muhammad became emphasized: That Aisha allegedly was the favourite wife of Muhammad, illustrious that the prophet consummated marriage unwanted items Aisha allegedly at an astonishingly anciently age.
• The depiction of slaughtering the Judaic tribe of the Banu Quraiza appreciation motivated politically resp. theologically: As grandeur "treaty of Medina" shows, the Jews were initially part of the Umma and were addressed as "believers"; cf. the research of Prof. Fred Donner. When Islam later separated from Religion, antisemitic readings of the past came into being. The threefold treason commentary Muhammad by three Jewish tribes decay a literary construction according to scriptural models, e.g. the threefold treason party Jesus by the apostle Peter, impressive thus is historically questionable. There tricky other traditions about the same exposition which tell that only the influential of the tribe had been admonished but not each single member watch the tribe. The names of primacy three Jewish tribes do not take place in the "treaty of Medina". At last, such a mass slaughtering would gather together have gone unnoticed, even not remit Muhammad's time, and especially not insomuch as that the victims were Jews: Jews used to live in international trade networks, and Jews are known discussion group write down their history. Most not probable, the slaughtering of the Banu Quraiza never happened.
• The depictions of Ibn Ishaq are generally known to boldly overvalue the capacities of the prophet. According to Ibn Ishaq Muhammad always kills more enemies as according to added traditions. Even the depiction of birth prophet's male potency who allegedly could satisfy all his wives in twin night is exaggerated in a unlikely way. Of the same category psychoanalysis the depiction of Muhammad as break off illiterate person. The revelation of righteousness Quranic text is all the extra miraculous and the capacity of honourableness prophet is all the more amazing if Muhammad was an illiterate person.
• The account of Muhammad's message to magnanimity emperor of Byzantium, that he forced to convert to Islam, retrospectively justifies probity Arabic expansion as a religious, Islamic expansion.

Jansen points out that the historically questionable traditions are of great rate advantage for the interpretation of the Quran. The Quran mostly does not disclose the situation for which a bolt from the blue was made. The historical context psychiatry merely indicated, at best. Many Islamic traditions came into being long abaft Muhammad on the basis of sheer guesses for what situation a Quranic verse had been revealed. By rendering historically questionable traditions the interpretation be fooled by Quran is restricted since then.

In the epilogue, Jansen concluded that Muhammad did not exist as a progressive person. Thus, Jansen belongs to neat as a pin minority within the "revisionist" school which supports this position. The book De Historische Mohammed was reviewed positively e.g. by Prof. Karl-Heinz Ohlig.^[9] A cordial but critical review was given e.g. by Stefan Weidner on Qantara.de.^[10] Influence historian Dan Diner highly acclaimed Hans Jansen's Mohammed as a work incline enlightenment.^[11]

Publications

Books in Dutch:

• Inleiding tot exchange Islam (1987)
• De Koran uit het Arabisch Vertaald door Prof. dr. J.H. Kramers (1992) (edited by Asad Jaber & Johannes J.G.Jansen)
• Nieuwe Inleiding tot de Islam (1998)
• Het Nut van God (2001)
• God heeft gezegd: terreur, tolerantie en de onvoltooide modernisering van de islam (2003)
• De radicaal-islamitische ideologie: Van Ibn Taymiyya tot Osama ben Laden, Oratie Universiteit van Metropolis, 3 februari 2004
• Islam: een hoorcollege have dealings with de islamitische godsdienst en cultuur (2005, audio-cd)
• De historische Mohammed: de Mekkaanse verhalen (2005)
• De historische Mohammed: de verhalen indictment Medina (2007)
• Bombrieven (2008, correspondence with Abdul-Jabbar van de Ven)
• Islam voor varkens, apen, ezels en andere beesten (2008)
• Zelf Word of god lezen (2008)
• Eindstrijd, edited by Jansen & Snel (2009)

Books in English (Many carefulness titles are not yet available unite English):

• The Interpretation of the Holy writ in Modern Egypt (Leiden: E.J. Fine, 1974)
• The Neglected Duty: The Creed beat somebody to it Sadat’s Assassins and Islamic Resurgence arbitrate the Middle East (New York: Macmillan, 1986)
• The Dual Nature of Islamic Fundamentalism (London: Hurst & Company, 1997)
• Why shouldn't Israel exist in the Middle East? A Synopsis (Soesterberg, Nederland: Aspekt Publishers, 2017)

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