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Call for Applications: Kinship, Illegal Cooperation and Criminalization

We cordially invite you to apply to participate in the workshop "Kinship, Illegal Cooperation, and Criminalization. “Clan Crime” Debates and Family-Based Networks in European and Global Perspective", which is funded as part of the DFG project KIN-COOPERATIONS: Illegal Cooperation and Kinship Dynami...

28. January 2026

Announcement of the new publication by Dr Mahmoud Jaraba

On 20 February 2026, C.H.Beck will publish the book ‘The Clans of al-Rashidiya – Arab Families and Their Criminal Networks’ by Dr Mahmoud Jaraba.

10. January 2026

Serdar Aslan talks about his study on Friday sermons

Former FAU EZIRE member Dr Serdar Aslan provided insights in the ZDF program Forum am Freitag (German) into a study he conducted together with Dr Jörn Thielmann on Friday sermons in mosques in Germany. For his research, Aslan analysed over two thousand sermon texts covering a period of around twent...

27. October 2025

Religious and moral lifestyle instead of radicalism – FAU EZIRE project “Interactions” on sermons in German mosques

The “Interactions” project, based at the Research Center for Islam and Law in Europe at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and led by Dr. Jörn Thielmann, has been examining issues surrounding the impact of social discourse on Islamism and radicalization on Muslim communities fo...

13. October 2025

Copy — Workshop „Reclaiming the Past, Shaping the Future – Heritage and Identity in the Middle East“

This workshop seeks to explore the diverse and dynamic ways in which heritage in the Middle East has been shaped and contested, comprising discussions on historical narratives, policy strategies, religious debates, literary representations, sensory culture and architectural transformations. Orga...

7. July 2025

Interview with Prof Mathias Rohe

After the fall of the Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad last weekend, the country now faces an uncertain future. Prof. Mathias Rohe shared his perspective on the current situation in Syria on the German television programme Frankenschau aktuell.

11. December 2024

Book publication: The Pashtun Borderland. A Religious and Cultural History of the Taliban

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book by FAU EZIRE associate PD Dr. Jan-Peter Hartung. In The Pashtun Borderland: A Religious and Cultural History of the Taliban, published by Cambridge University Press, the Islamic studies scholar deciphers prevailing conceptions of "the Taliban"...

9. December 2024

International Workshop: Islam online – offline – and beyond: Digital media, Islamic knowledge and authority in the West

This workshop investigates how digital media are used in the production of authoritative Islamic knowledge in the West. It refers to a long tradition of research and debate about interrelations between new media and authority structures in Islamic contexts.

19. August 2024

FAU EZIRE member accepted into the Emerging Talents Initiative (FAUeti)

Für Ihre Forschung zu Einstellungen zum Rechtssystem bekommt Dr. Stephanie Müssig Unterstützung durch die FAU-interne emerging talents initiative (FAUeti). FAUeti unterstützt exzellente Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschafler dabei, bei einem externen Fördergeber einen Antrag einreichen zu können.

15. August 2024

International conference Perspectives on the Development of Islamic Law: Philosophy of Law & Islamic Medical Ethics

From 8 to 9 November 2024, the Working Group on Medical Ethics and Islam, together with the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology and the Society for Arabic and Islamic Law, is organising the international conference Perspectives on the Development of Islamic Law: Philosophy of Law & Islamic Medical Ethics. The conference approaches the two main topics from a theory-led, conceptual perspective (Islamic philosophy of law) and with a practice-orientated and geographical focus on Germany (Islamic medical ethics).

30. July 2024