Editing Abdoldjavad Falaturi (section)

==Career==
He has also written several other official publications (together with Udo Tworuschka) for education in Germany on [[Islamic theology]] (initially "Der Islam im Unterricht. Beiträge zur interkulturellen Erziehung in Europa", in: ''Beilage zu den Studien zur Internationalen Schulbuchforschung, Braunschweig'' : Georg-Eckert-Institut, 1992.)<ref>{{cite web|url= https://iranicaonline.org/articles/falaturi |title= FALĀṬŪRĪ, ʿABD-AL-JAWĀD |publisher= Encyclopaedia Iranica }}</ref>

From 1974 through 1996, he was a professor of Islamic philosophy, theology, and law at the [[University of Cologne]]. He played a significant role in developing the [[Shiite]] collection in the University of Cologne's Oriental Department beginning in 1965.<ref>{{Cite book |title= Falaturi, A: Reinterpretation of Greek philosophy |last= Falaturi |first= Abdoldjavad |authorlink= Abdoldjavad Falaturi |year= 2018 |publisher= Koenigshausen & Neumann |isbn= 978-3-826-05974-2 |pages= 204 |url= https://www.weltbild.de/artikel/buch/falaturi-a-umdeutung-der-griechischen-philosophie_21761013-1#productdetails |accessdate= 2023-07-07}}</ref>

He co-established the Islamic Academy for Research into the Interrelationships with Western Intellectual History and Culture in Cologne; formed in 1978) and was a founding member of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (created in 1986). Falaturi was one of the few Persian religious intellectuals in close contact with Azhar University administrators after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and he was then appointed to their Islamic council, the Majles al-al le-aeon al-lam al-eslm.

He focussed on the confusion between cultural habits and religious rules. Among others, he writes that it is incorrect to state that the [[chador]] is a religious obligation.