Year: 2018

Dr. Hüseyin Çiçek, political scientist and research associate at the EZIRE, comments  on the election victory of the Turkish head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Vorarlberger Nachrichten. Similar to the referendum on the introduction of the presidential system, the head of state did not achi...

In an article by Deutsche Welle, Mathias Rohe, Islamic scholar, lawyer and director of the EZIRE, explains that he sees a possible violation of the Human Rights Convention in the implementation of Austria's Islamic Law. As a step against "political Islam", the Austrian Government closes seven mos...

For the newspaper Vorarlberger Nachrichten, Dr. Hüseyin Çiçek, political scientist and research assistant at EZIRE, analyzes the announcement of the Turkish president Erdogan to antedate the parliamentary and presidential elections in Turkey by one and a half years. The new election date is set for ...

In the Austrian newspaper Der Standard, Dr. Hüseyin Çiçek, political scientist and research assistant at EZIRE, comments on the geopolitical interrelations between Turkey and the West. The relationship between Ankara and Washington had lately been problematic, Çiçek writes. Even though Turkish pr...

03-12-2018: Jörn Thielmann, Niels Valdemar Vinding and Egdunas Racius published the 27th volume of the Series "Muslim Minorities" by BRILL. In "Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe", a number of authors reflect the work Islamic scholar and head of the scientific advisory board of EZIRE, J...

Is the use of violence legitimized by Islamic Law? Is the Koran calling for the murder of non-believers? And what is the “Islamization of the Occident” all about? These are the questions that Mathias Rohe, founding director of the EZIRE, is concerned with in a new Focus series. In “Faktencheck Islam...

In the beginning of march, the newest publication by Dr. Gerdien Jonker, scientific researcher at EZIRE, will be published by the Wallstein Verlag. In "Etwas hoffen muss das Herz", religious studies scholar Jonker traces an extract of European religious history in the kaleidoscope of a family histor...

In an interview with the broadcasting station Deutsche Welle, Mathias Rohe, lawyer, Islamic scholar and director of EZIRE, welcomes the verdict of the German Federal Supreme Court on the Wuppertal "Sharia police". The court ruled that public presence with reflective vests marked "Sharia police" can ...

Just how peaceful is religion? In a debate with the German newspaper Nürnberger Nachrichten, Mathias Rohe, director of EZIRE, debates the violent potential of Islam and Christendom together with Tarek Badawia, professor for Islamic-Religious Studies and Islamic education at FAU, and Stefan Ark Nitsc...