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What does Islam say about the existential questions of life? Is sex allowed before marriage? When does life begin? Which interventions in the body are allowed? The series "Thinking and Living Islam" deals with the big questions of Muslim everyday life in Germany and what the various Islamic currents...

Hüseyin Çiçek, political scientist and associate member of EZIRE, writes in a guest commentary in Neue Zürcher Zeitung on 20 June 2019 about the upcoming re-election in Istanbul and the future of Turkey. For Turkey, the next few days will be trend-setting - the repetition of the elections in Ista...

Issue 2, 2018 of the the Salzburger Theological Journal includes an article by EZIRE associate Hüseyin Çiçek titled "The AKP's Islamic-Conservative Populism". The journal, which focuses on systematic scientific questions, dedicates this issue to the main topic of "right-wing populism and religion...

Mathias Rohe, founder and director of the EZIRE, was awarded an honorary doctorate on 27.09.2018 at a ceremony at Ankara University. Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Rohe was awarded for his excellent scientific contributions to intercultural and international projects in his fields. Especially the merits in ...

Dr. Hüseyin Çiçek, political scientist and research associate at the EZIRE, defines discussions as an expression of successful participation in society in an interview with the Voralberger Nachrichten. Integration does not mean living together in harmony - it´s the contrary. Many parts of the Tur...

In the following winterterm, the scientific researchers at EZIRE once again offer a variety of courses that can be visited by students of the MA program Middle Eastern studies or as guest students. Dr. Jörn Thielmann, Alexander Braig und Stephanie Müssig take on the Introduction to Middle Eastern...

The study "Islamic Community Life in Berlin" was presented in Berlin on 17th July 2018, commissioned by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and published by Prof. Dr. Riem Spielhaus, Nina Mühe, M.A. and the EZIRE. The study, which takes up publications from 1999 and 2006, provides an ove...

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...

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...