Interview

In an interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German), Dr Ertuğrul Şahin of the Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage and associate in the EZIRE collaborative project WECHSELWIRKUNGEN draws attention to the role of mosque archives as agents of cultural, Muslim heritage in Germany.

An interview with Hatem Elliesie by Deutsche Welle is the source for an article on Islamic law in sub-Saharan Africa. Following the cooperation conference of EZIRE with the African Law Association, which took place in Erlangen in November 2021, the topic was taken up and processed as relevant.

In an interview in the Leipzig University magazine, Hatem Elliesie talks about his research into Muslim communities in Germany and public debates about the phenomenon of so-called “parallel societies”.

On 10 June 2021, Group Leader Hatem Elliesie discussed his research on Islam in Germany with Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo di Fabio, a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court and host of the podcast “Auf den Grund! – Wissenschaft im Gespräch mit Udo di Fabio”.

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...

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.

On the occasion of her master's thesis being awarded the Christoph Schumann Memorial Prize from the Faculty of Philosophy at FAU, the new EZIRE employee gave an interview about her research on Muslim life in rural areas in the context of immigration. Theresia Leis is one of several new members of th...

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...

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 ...

In the article on web.de, "From cruzifix to headscarf: this is the state of the debate 25 years later," Jörn Thielmann, managing director, and Mathias Rohe, director at EZIRE were among the experts asked for comments about the topic. The law to put up a cruzifix in every Bavarian classroom was, i...