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German Muslim leader and scholar

Halima Krausen is a German Muslim theologian and scholar.^[1] Krausen served as an imam for the Islamic Centre of Hamburg following the resignation of Imam Mehdi Razvi in 1996.

She held this position until 2014,^[2] and was Germany's first female imam.^[3]

Krausen was born in 1949 in AachenNorth Rhine-Westphalia, to a mixed Protestant and Catholic family.

She converted to Islam in her early teens. Krausen studied Islam, comparative religion, and Christian theology in university and studied Islamic law, philosophy, and theology traditionally under Imam Mehdi Razvi. Krausen holds a traditional ijaza.^[4] She worked with a team of Muslim scholars on a translation and commentary of the Koran into German from 1984 to 1988.

She also partially translated the hadith.^[2] Krausen was one of the founding mem