Inarah is a Germany-based association of scholars who write about Islam's origins. Their first and second books - Die dunklen Anfänge and Der frühe Islam - got translated into English. They've published many more Baende in German but these have not made their way into English. Unless you count Goodbye Muhammad which summarised the first two and the third before getting itself translated (badly).
The first book, I think, included a Frenchman lamenting that critical study of the Quran and of the Islamic da'wa generally has not been had in France as it has across the Atlantic, across the Channel, and across the Rhine. Susanne Schröter, now, claims such work is no longer happening across the Rhine, either. (Oder–und-Neisse, next?) In this she echoes Hamed Abdel-Samad in 2016.
Inarah's next symposium is scheduled for the Saarland 4-7 May. So, er, critical research is ongoing along the Rhine. Actually more critical than I endorse - Volker Popp will be there in sha'llah.
The concern is, then, that Germany doesn't support "Norbert Pressburg" types, who extend their research into critique against Islam in German society. Should it? - or should Germany ponder other threats?
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