الإسلام فى الألفية الثالثة: ديانة في صعود

Murat Wilfried Hoffmann, German Muslim thinker (born in 1931 in Aschaffenburg, a large town in northwestern Bavaria administratively in Lower Franconia in Germany), a prominent German Muslim diplomat and author. He belonged to the Hitler Youth when he was nine years old, but besides that he belonged to the banned anti-Nazi League at the same time. He began studying law after obtaining his baccalaureate degree in Munich and graduated from Harvard, after which he obtained a doctorate in law. He was so fond of ballet that he gave lessons in it and learned to play jazz drums. He founded the Ballet Lovers Association in Munich. He worked for many years as a critic of ballet art in specialized magazines. He worked since the fifties at the German Federal Embassy in Algeria, and this made him watch closely the Algerian revolution, which seems to have aroused his keen interest and made him meditate. He is the author of several books dealing with the future of Islam in the context of Western civilization and Europe. Hoffmann, a Catholic, born in Catholicism, converted to Islam in 1980. He worked as an expert in the field of nuclear defense in the German Foreign Ministry, and his conversion to Islam was the subject of controversy because of his high position in the German government. He worked as Director of the Information Department at NATO in Brussels from 1983 to 1987, then Germany's ambassador to Algeria from 1987 to 1990, then ambassador to Morocco from 1990 to 1994. His first work was Islam as an alternative, then the book Islam in the Third Millennium: A Religion on the Rise. Then a book A Journey to Mecca Many of his books and articles focus on the place of Islam in the West, and after the events of September 11, in particular, in the United States. He is one of the signatories to The Common Word Between You and Us, an open letter by Muslim scholars to Christian leaders, calling for peace and understanding.