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On January 12, 2021, format Nachgefragt (Inquired) of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg  published an interview with Katharina Nicolai, research assistant at EZIRE and doctoral candidate at the Chair for Politics and Society of the Middle East. Together with Eric Vollmann (rese... Continue

With reference to the Catholic News Agency (KNA), the news portals domradio.de and qantara.de published on December 14th. an assessment by Prof. Dr. Mathias Rohe, Islamic scholar and lawyer at FAU, and founding rector of EZIRE, on the influence of Sharia law in Germany.  Continue

In an interview with the radio station Deutschlandfunk on November 16, Prof. Dr. Mathias Rohe gave an assessment of the plans of the Austrian Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, to introduce political Islam as a criminal offense in view of the recent terrorist attacks in Europe. The complete interview with ... Continue

In a guest contribution in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard on November 12 Hüseyin Çiçek, associated EZIRE-member and researcher at the Institut für Islamisch-Theologische Studien at Uni Wien, elaborates on the geopolitical context, in which the dispute on the freedom of opinion between the Turki... Continue

The rule of law and the liberal society must not be intimidated by terrorist attacks. This statement is stressed by Prof. Mathias Rohe in interviews with the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung and the Evangelischer Pressedienst (epd), to be read at evangelisch.de, on the occasion of the terror attacks in Dresden... Continue

From November 2020 a new DFG-Project, for researching mosque archives in Germany using the Example of the Ahmadiyya-Lahore Archive in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, overseen by Dr. Gerdien Jonker, will be launched. The projects aims to find out how mosque archives as historical sources enrich our knowledge ... Continue

Dr. Mahmoud Jaraba, associated member at EZIRE, spent much of 2016 and 2017 doing field research in Salafist networks in Bavaria. The findings of his work have recently been published as "Salafism - the roots of Islamic extremism based on the Friday sermons of a Salafist mosque in Germany" (title tr... Continue