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Do Islamic commandments play a role when Muslims make decisions on dealing with their property in everyday life? Scientific studies suggest that some Islamic commandments are given more attention than others. EZIRE staff member Stephanie Müssig has found in her systematic review that Muslims follow,...

EZIRE-employees Ursula Günther, Martin Herzog and Stephanie Müssig focused on the Islamic bridal dowry (mahr) from an Islamic Studies, legal and sociological perspective. The treatise was written within the context of the Franco-German ANR-DFG project "Understanding Property in Muslim Transitional E...

Guest commentary by Hüseyin I. Çiçek in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (05/11/2015)

Publication by Hüseyin I. Çiçek in Fokus-Nahost (02/11/2015).

Conference on 4th-5th November 2015 in Nuremberg, in cooperation with the associations represented in the German Islam Conference (DIK). For a long time, Muslims in Germany have been calling for their own, fully differentiated charity organisations, in analogy to those of the Christian church. Bu...

The Bavarian Orient-Colloquium offers a lecture series on the subject Orient lecture series on the subject Orient in the winter semester 2015/2016 in Erlangen.

Commentary by Hüseyin I. Çiçek in Fokus-Nahost (22/09/2015).

In cooperation with the Chair of Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law Prof. Dr. Mathias Rohe, Pakistani lawyers of the University of Management and Technology (UMT) School of Law and Policy (SLP) from Lahore participated from 21st July to 03rd August 2015 in the diverse events. I...

An interdisciplinary symposium in cooperation with the Central Institute "Anthropology of Religion(s)", on 17-18th September 2015 in Erlangen. In the intellectual and spiritual tradition of Islam the notions of the dignity of man and his moral deficiency have always been some of the principal con...

Book presentation "Handbuch Christentum und Islam in Deutschland" with a panel discussion on 8th July 2015 in Erlangen. 55 renowned Christian and Muslim authors – all living in Germany – enter in the “Handbuch Christentum und Islam in Deutschland” in the dialog, ask what challenges there are, an...