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On 28 January 2012, a joint online event of the Islam Advice in Bavaria (Islamberatung in Bayern) and the Erlanger Center for Islam and Law in Europe (EZIRE) took place. At the Islamberatung in Bayern, a hospital received a request for advice for a patient order for Muslims. Although there are sp...

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...

With reference to the Catholic News Agency (KNA), the news portals domradio.de and qantara.de published on December 14th. an assessment by Prof. Dr. Mathias Rohe, Islamic scholar and lawyer at FAU, and founding rector of EZIRE, on the influence of Sharia law in Germany.

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 a guest contribution in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard on November 12 Hüseyin Çiçek, associated EZIRE-member and researcher at the Institut für Islamisch-Theologische Studien at Uni Wien, elaborates on the geopolitical context, in which the dispute on the freedom of opinion between the Turki...

The rule of law and the liberal society must not be intimidated by terrorist attacks. This statement is stressed by Prof. Mathias Rohe in interviews with the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung and the Evangelischer Pressedienst (epd), to be read at evangelisch.de, on the occasion of the terror attacks in Dresden...

From November 2020 a new DFG-Project, for researching mosque archives in Germany using the Example of the Ahmadiyya-Lahore Archive in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, overseen by Dr. Gerdien Jonker, will be launched. The projects aims to find out how mosque archives as historical sources enrich our knowledge ...

Dr. Mahmoud Jaraba, associated member at EZIRE, spent much of 2016 and 2017 doing field research in Salafist networks in Bavaria. The findings of his work have recently been published as "Salafism - the roots of Islamic extremism based on the Friday sermons of a Salafist mosque in Germany" (title tr...

On the news page BR24 on September 16 it has been elaborated on the question, why legalistic-Islamists pose a threat to democracy. According to homeland-security agents, legalistic Islamism, as opposed to Jihadism, was characterized by nonviolence. The aim was rather a permanent infiltration of soci...

According to a press release from September 1, Federal Minister of Interior Affairs, Horst Seehofer, has appointed 12 members for the newly-established Independent Body of Experts for Islamophobia. Among them Mathias Rohe, Law Professor and Islamic Scientist at the FAU, as well as founding rector of...