Their journey to Islam

• Born into a German-Jewish family
• Worked with Berlin’s Muslim community
• Wrote on Goethe, ethics and Islam

The full story

Marcus belonged to the German philosophical world, and to a Jewish family whose scriptural inheritance he took seriously. Islam did not ask him to discard either. It offered a strict unity of God that his reading of ethics and reason kept pointing towards — a conviction he then defended in print through one of Europe’s darkest decades.