West-Eastern Enlightenment: The author and orientalist Navid Kermani
You can not be reduced to a single sentence the work of Navid Kermani. But if you could, it would probably be this phrase: “Religions have their aesthetics.” The peace prize winner of the German Book Trade in 2015 is a scholar and a writer, an esthete and a philosopher, a man of words and poetry. Navid Kermani but is also a man of empiricism, a reporter and traveler who needs their own intuition, tries to talk and it takes long distances to be.
In his book “Brave New Orient” ( 2003) gathered Kermani “reports of towns and wars” – as the subtitle of the book – from Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Indonesia, Israel and Palestine. Two years earlier he had in “Iran. The Revolution of Children “describes a trip to Offenbach. Why Offenbach? There lived the Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar, whose parents were killed on 22 November 1998 Tehran by members of the Iranian intelligence. Kermani could be the murder eight signs in every detail, right down to the question of how often and at what points the knife penetrated the murderer in the bodies of the parents. Then a more significant rate fell: “I want to know every detail and often ask for, though I am ashamed of my questions.”
The barbed wire left their lives
thirst for knowledge and empathy, curiosity and empathy, which are properties that characterize Kermani’s books. The shame felt by the questioner, springs from his humanity, it is accompanied by his empathy for the pain to which he touches with his questions. The daughter responds, because she wants the world to know what the Iranian government has done to their parents.
Why does Kermani know such bloody details? For the same reason that he, when he visited the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the North African coast in the fall of 2005, goes to the barbed wire, who wanted to storm several hundred refugees in the night before, to reach European soil. Most had been arrested, a few had come through, and some had lost their lives in the barbed wire. Kermani occurs at the fence and see what is it “has more impressed than all messages refugee crises since then, two hundred, four hundred or six hundred dead. Those are just numbers, we do not see the drowned yes, do not know their stories. Therefore, we soon forget not so easily forget these figures … “The blood of the fence, which” leaves blood on the borders of Europe “.
Politics is a synaesthetic process
empathy, humanity, solidarity, morality and responsibility, which are for Kermani terms that are alive and have their own sensuality. Kermani alert sense of differences and ambivalences that you must designate in order to endure, you can, fed by the concretion. Even politics is a synaesthetic process him. It may be that this view goes back to its Islamic Studies studies to determine the Orientalist has earned great prestige. You are at the beginning of a long series of now almost two dozen books and numerous reports, articles and comments, many of which have been published in this newspaper and in which Kermani has treated his central themes in many different and sometimes outrageous new way.
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