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Hatem Elliesie is Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Head of Junior Research Group at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). During the summer semester 2021 is serving as Acting Professor for Islamic Law at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the ...

Ülkü Ocakları – far-right extremists with Turkish-Islamist ideologies, also called Grey Wolves - are active in various Turkish and Turkish-Islamist organizations in Germany and Austria. In this recently published analysis by EICTP (European Institute for Counter Terrorism and Conflict Prevention)...

On 21 March, an article by the political scientist and religious scholar at the University of Vienna, as well as an associate member of the EZIRE, Hüseyin Çiçek, was published on the news site Ahval. In the article, Çiçek addresses the current debates on the integration of Islam and Muslims in Eu...

In the current digital edition of the ZWD political magazine, Mathias Rohe, law professor and Islamic scientist at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and founding rector of the EZIRE, takes a stand on questions in dealing with radical Islamist teachings. In order to address the ma...

With Dominik Müller, M. A., the EZIRE has expanded its expertise in the field of methods of social anthropology. The ethnologist, Islamic and political scientist, who works at the Department for Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich, has been enriching the ac...

Dr. Hatem Elliesie, leader of the EZIRE research project "Qualitative Milieu Research", funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, has recently been appointed and welcomed in the FAU program of Junior Researcher Team Leaders

Mathias Rohe, EZIRE director, law professor at FAU and Islamic scholar, has been appointed to the board of trustees of the Islamkolleg Deutschland e.V. with effect from January 1, 2021. Since it was founded at the end of 2019, the Islam College in Osnabrück has dedicated itself to the training of Ge...

In an online article published on 18 February in the magazine zenith, Hüseyin, a political scientist at the University of Vienna and an associate member of EZIRE, writes about the current political situation in Turkey and the associated challenges for the ruling party of Turkish President Recep Tayy...

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...

For a Special Issue of the Journal of Muslims in Europe on Mosque archives in Germany as Sources of Community History, articles are accepted until March 1, 2021. The full CfP can be found here.