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About one hundred years ago, Carl Heinrich Becker authored his programmatic editorial for the newly founded Journal Der Islam - "Der Islam als Problem." This inaugural text was an important step toward the creation of modern Islamwissenschaft, signalling a new way of studying Islam and its civilization.
Becker understood "Islam" as a term denoting the history, culture, and civilization of the societies of the Islamic Empire and all its successor states until the present. Islam, he argued, in one way or another had put its imprint on the cultures, ethnics, and different religious belief systems...