The Berlin Mosque was the first permanent place of Muslim worship in Germany. Never a purely local affair, the construction of the Berlin Mosque depended on the legacies of imperialism and the shifting geopolitical contexts of the 1920s. International diplomats and former Wilhelmine and Ottoman agents living and working in Weimar Berlin made sense of the mosque project through categories and ideas forged in the decades before the First World War. They gradually recalibrated their ambitions when confronted, as they were, with radical transformations of the Muslim world, from the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the abolition of the caliphate to the emergence of new political leaders from Arabia to Afghanistan. This article demonstrates how the construction and uses of the Berlin Mosque closely followed how diplomats and other actors, both German and non-German, assessed the geopolitical potential of a German–Muslim alliance in the post-Ottoman, post-Wilhelmine moment.

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建造柏林清真寺：世界政治中的一集

柏林清真寺是德国第一个永久性的穆斯林礼拜场所。柏林清真寺的建设从来都不是纯粹的地方事务，它依赖于帝国主义的遗产和 1920 年代不断变化的地缘政治背景。在柏林魏玛生活和工作的国际外交官和前威廉和奥斯曼帝国特工通过第一次世界大战前几十年形成的类别和想法来理解清真寺项目。当他们面对穆斯林世界的彻底变革时，他们逐渐重新调整了自己的雄心，从奥斯曼帝国的解体和哈里发的废除，到从阿拉伯到阿富汗的新政治领导人的出现。这篇文章展示了柏林清真寺的建造和使用是如何紧跟外交官和其他参与者，