Authorship
In 2004 I (co)-published my first book. This was followed by several others in the following years. Among my most important publications are "Muslim Female German", the "Koran for Children and Adults" and "Islam for Children and Adults" (together with Rabeya Müller). The latter was awarded by the "Stiftung Buchkunst" as the best book in 2013 in the category of books for children and young people.
You can find an overview of my books here.
Zhe Koran for children and adults
The work by Rabeya Müller and Lamya Kaddor is structured according to central topics. Children thereby have the possibility to deal with the Koran independently and to understand its essential statements.
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With colorful ornaments and miniatures from the Islamic tradition
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With bilingual Arabic-German Koran text
Islam: for children and adults
This book was awarded by the Stiftung Buchkunst as one of the "Most Beautiful German Books, Category Children's Books, Youth Books". In this book, Lamya Kaddor and Rabeya Müller introduce Islam in a way that everyone can understand. They explain the basics - from the Koran to the life of Mohammed to pilgrimage and Sharia - but also look at explosive topics such as fundamentalism or the situation of women. A young, unorthodox look at a great religion.
Muslim and Liberal! What constitutes a contemporary Islam
Can Islam be liberal? And can a liberal Muslim really be a believer? In fact, liberal Muslims are often confronted with the assumption: Muslim and liberal, that's not possible at all. The renowned contributors to this book provide evidence to the contrary and stand up for an objectification of the heated debate on Islam
Syria. A country without war
Syria is a rich country. Historically, culturally, humanly. It has always been a hinge between Orient and Occident, a transit region for longdistance trade on the Incense and Silk Road. Numerous peoples and religions have left their traces and made the region one of the most beautiful and important cultural areas in the world. This volume directs our view to the country and its people. With around 200 expressive photos by Lutz Jäkel, edited by the bestselling German-Syrian author Lamya Kaddor, with contributions by renowned Syrian, German-Syrian and German authors who record their thoughts on their homeland, the country of their parents and their travels.
Islam. Reading, Amazement, Knowledge
Islam: for children in the Western world, mostly a foreign religion and at the same time very close. Friends and classmates are of Muslim faith, and mosques are part of everyday life in many cities. What is it about this religion that we encounter so often? What is written in the Koran? How is Allah different from the God of the Bible? Why do Muslim families fast once a year and why do some Muslim women wear headscarves?
Ready to kill: Why German teenagers go to jihad
"See you in paradise," fifteen-year-old Sabina and her friend Samra wrote to their parents before disappearing without a trace to Syria. Ahmed C. was born in Ennepetal and loved soccer - before he blew himself up as a suicide bomber in Baghdad. Over five hundred and fifty German jihadists, the youngest of them thirteen years old, have so far left for the war zone. Primarily in the ranks of the brutal terrorist militia IS, they want to serve as "warriors of God" while their friends graduate from school back home in Germany.
Muslim, Female, German: My Path to a Contemporary Islam
A courageous and personal critique of Islam that is a wake-up call and makes an important contribution to the integration debate. Lamya Kaddor belongs to a new generation of German Muslims. She criticizes the collective view on Islam in Germany as well as the chariot mentality of non-Muslims. Islam is part of German society. But many people don't want to admit it - not self-proclaimed critics of Islam, and least of all many Muslims themselves. The silent majority allows bearded fundamentalists, forced marriages and honor killings to determine the image of Islam.
The crucial test: How fear of the foreign threatens our democracy
Everyone is talking about how refugees, immigrants can integrate - Lamya Kaddor turns the question around: Doesn't the majority society also have to change? Isn't it a matter of living by liberal principles for everyone? Kaddor observes with concern that the fear of refugees, of Islam, is weakening democracy in Germany; that mindsets are becoming established for which the restriction of freedom in favor of an alleged security is legitimate. Anyone who accepts that North Africans are denied access to swimming pools runs the risk of soon having to talk about the restriction of quite different, fundamental rights. Conversely, no ideology, no ideology can be allowed to take precedence over our Basic Law: Here, too, democracy in Germany is in danger.
So Foreign and Yet So Close: Jews and Muslims in Germany
Jews and Muslims have lived among us for a long time, some for centuries, others in the second or third generation. They have remained close to us and yet are also viewed as strangers. Lamya Kaddor and Michael Rubinstein live and work in Germany, the country of their birth, and are at home in a faith community that makes them "others". They know far better than statistics and numbers how integration is in Germany. Where are the challenges of our society, in which Christians, Jews and Muslims really live together? What can the churches do better in dealing with other religious communities? And what responsibility do the Jews and Muslims themselves have? An authentic and constructive contribution to the integration debate.
The Thing with the Bratwurst: My Somewhat Different German Life
Lamya Kaddor is considered "Germany's best-known representative of a gentle Islam" (Spiegel online). Again and again she hears sayings like "You speak such good German!". Since her childhood, she has been confronted with clichés about Germans with foreign roots. Based on her personal story, Lamya Kaddor tells what her life is actually about. She recalls what it was like to grow up as a child of Syrian immigrants in Ahlen. Why was Pippi Langstrumpf her role model and how did she discover Syria? What significance did religion have and what challenges did she have to contend with as a young woman? And what happens when a Muslim child accidentally bites into a bratwurst?
Sapphire - A book on religion for young Muslim men and women
Informative - student-oriented - stimulating: The books contain important texts from the Koran and Sunna, literary texts and factual information, a lexicon and sura register.
Awarded the honorary prize of the "Best European Schoolbook Awards".
Islamic upbringing and education doctrine
Islamic religious education in public schools can be a key to successful integration in Germany. However, the necessary religious pedagogy is still in its infancy. So how can such classes be designed? What is important in the training of teachers? What expectations do students bring with them? In several wellfounded contributions, well-known authors shed light on these and other questions. This book provides an impetus for the further elaboration of an Islamic education.
Muslims in the constitutional state
Islamic religious education in the German language - demanded by many Muslims for more than twenty years - is closer than ever to becoming a reality, and is proving to be a highly politically charged issue. This volume documents a colloquium held on November 25, 2002, by the Center for Religious Studies at the University of Münster, and allowed actors and concerned parties from all sides to have their say. Essays and statements by representatives of Islamic associations, decisionmakers in ministries, scholars of Islam and religion, pedagogues and teachers of religion, lawyers and theologians provide information on the state of the discussion on the subject of Islamic religious education in various German states as well as in Austria.
Islamic religious education - backgrounds, problems, perspectives
Islamic religious education in the German language - demanded by many Muslims for more than twenty years - is closer than ever to becoming a reality, and is proving to be a highly politically charged issue. This volume documents a colloquium held on November 25, 2002, by the Center for Religious Studies at the University of Münster, and allowed actors and concerned parties from all sides to have their say. Essays and statements by representatives of Islamic associations, decisionmakers in ministries, scholars of Islam and religion, pedagogues and teachers of religion, lawyers and theologians provide information on the state of the discussion on the subject of Islamic religious education in various German states as well as in Austria.