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Rabeya Müller
Rabeya Müller, also Rabeya Müller-Haque (1957 – 19 February 2024) was a German Islamic scholar, Muslim theologian, imam and religious educator.
She was a pioneer of Islam in Germany as one of the first female imams. She was a liberal Islamic theologian.
Born as Rosel Müller, she lived with her single mother and her grandparents. As a Catholic, she attended a Catholic high school in Vallendar and converted to Islam after graduating from high school in the late 1970s.
After studying education, Islamic studies (at the University of Cologne under Abdoldjavad Falaturi) and ethnology in Germany, Canada and Asia, she published works on Islam and the position of women in Islam, on Islam and the disabled and on Muslims in Germany. At the Institute for Interreligious Education and Didactics, she designed textbooks for Islamic religious education, developed teaching materials and curriculum content, worked out interreligious and intercultural educational theories and teaching concepts, trained religious educators and trained mediators. She worked as a representative of a "gender-equitable Islam" in the Center for Islamic Women's Studies and Women's Advancement, which advises Muslim women in need, including victims of domestic violence, and developed courses in the areas of self-assertion training for Muslim girls and how to deal with Muslims . Against the background of gender research, she worked on gender-specific pedagogy in Islam. Müller was director of the Cologne Institute for Interreligious Pedagogy and Didactics.
Rabeya Müller died in February 2024 after a long illness at the age of 67. She was buried on February 22, 2024, with a Muslim funeral prayer at the Südfriedhof cemetery in Cologne-Zollstock.
"What she particularly praises about the Islamic concept of God is that it presupposes a mature believer. What she particularly appreciates about Islamic ethics is the centrality of justice. [She] describes herself as a 'liberal, European Muslim'."
On the occasion of the circumcision debate that began in 2012, Müller said at the 99th German Catholic Congress in 2014: “Religions must accept questions, learn to deal with them, and not always perceive them as an affront”.
She was deputy chairwoman of the Center for Islamic Women's Studies and the Advancement of Women, chairwoman of the Conference of European Women Theologians initiative, first speaker of "interreligiones" - Forum for Interreligious Education, advisory board member of the International Peace School, Cologne, member of Intra, member of the Commission for Islamic Religious Education, member of the advisory board "Chair for the Religion of Islam" of the Center for Religious Studies at the University of Münster, member of the World Conference of Religions for Peace, member of the preparatory committee of the Interreligious Summer University Loccum, member of the Christian-Islamic Forum of the Christian-Islamic Society and founding member of the Liberal Islamic Union.
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Rabeya Müller
Rabeya Müller, also Rabeya Müller-Haque (1957 – 19 February 2024) was a German Islamic scholar, Muslim theologian, imam and religious educator.
She was a pioneer of Islam in Germany as one of the first female imams. She was a liberal Islamic theologian.
Born as Rosel Müller, she lived with her single mother and her grandparents. As a Catholic, she attended a Catholic high school in Vallendar and converted to Islam after graduating from high school in the late 1970s.
After studying education, Islamic studies (at the University of Cologne under Abdoldjavad Falaturi) and ethnology in Germany, Canada and Asia, she published works on Islam and the position of women in Islam, on Islam and the disabled and on Muslims in Germany. At the Institute for Interreligious Education and Didactics, she designed textbooks for Islamic religious education, developed teaching materials and curriculum content, worked out interreligious and intercultural educational theories and teaching concepts, trained religious educators and trained mediators. She worked as a representative of a "gender-equitable Islam" in the Center for Islamic Women's Studies and Women's Advancement, which advises Muslim women in need, including victims of domestic violence, and developed courses in the areas of self-assertion training for Muslim girls and how to deal with Muslims . Against the background of gender research, she worked on gender-specific pedagogy in Islam. Müller was director of the Cologne Institute for Interreligious Pedagogy and Didactics.
Rabeya Müller died in February 2024 after a long illness at the age of 67. She was buried on February 22, 2024, with a Muslim funeral prayer at the Südfriedhof cemetery in Cologne-Zollstock.
"What she particularly praises about the Islamic concept of God is that it presupposes a mature believer. What she particularly appreciates about Islamic ethics is the centrality of justice. [She] describes herself as a 'liberal, European Muslim'."
On the occasion of the circumcision debate that began in 2012, Müller said at the 99th German Catholic Congress in 2014: “Religions must accept questions, learn to deal with them, and not always perceive them as an affront”.
She was deputy chairwoman of the Center for Islamic Women's Studies and the Advancement of Women, chairwoman of the Conference of European Women Theologians initiative, first speaker of "interreligiones" - Forum for Interreligious Education, advisory board member of the International Peace School, Cologne, member of Intra, member of the Commission for Islamic Religious Education, member of the advisory board "Chair for the Religion of Islam" of the Center for Religious Studies at the University of Münster, member of the World Conference of Religions for Peace, member of the preparatory committee of the Interreligious Summer University Loccum, member of the Christian-Islamic Forum of the Christian-Islamic Society and founding member of the Liberal Islamic Union.