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The Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe (EZIRE) conducts research and teaching about Islam and Muslim life in Europe from a multidisciplinary perspective. In addition to research and teaching, EZIRE also offers services such as trainings, consulting, expertise and expert opinions.
The latest issue of Medaon, a journal that focuses on Jewish life-worlds, features an article by Dr. Gerdien Jonker that deals with the Working Group Churches and Religious Communities in Greater Berlin (AKR). Continue
In an interview with Götz Nordbruch, co-director of ufuq.de, Mahmoud Jaraba spoke, among other things, about current trends within the Salafist scene in Bavaria and discussed ways of dealing with said scene.
In general, the influence the Salafist scene has had on its followers had been quite powe... Continue
What is Political Islam? How does he differ from traditionalist Muslims? What impact do those ideologies have on Muslim communities, how does coexistence of different views wordk and how can there be a greater understanding?
Prof. Dr. Matthias Rohe in an interview for the magazine FAU-Alexander. Continue
Hatem Elliesie is Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Head of Junior Research Group at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). During the summer semester 2021 is serving as Acting Professor for Islamic Law at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the ... Continue
Ülkü Ocakları – far-right extremists with Turkish-Islamist ideologies, also called Grey Wolves - are active in various Turkish and Turkish-Islamist organizations in Germany and Austria.
In this recently published analysis by EICTP (European Institute for Counter Terrorism and Conflict Prevention)... Continue
On 21 March, an article by the political scientist and religious scholar at the University of Vienna, as well as an associate member of the EZIRE, Hüseyin Çiçek, was published on the news site Ahval.
In the article, Çiçek addresses the current debates on the integration of Islam and Muslims in Eu... Continue
In the current digital edition of the ZWD political magazine, Mathias Rohe, law professor and Islamic scientist at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and founding rector of the EZIRE, takes a stand on questions in dealing with radical Islamist teachings. In order to address the ma... Continue
