Month: May 2020

In his commentary on May 14 in the Vienna-based newspaper Der Standard Hüseyin I. Çiçek, political scientist and associated EZIRE-member, elaborates on the possible impact of the Corona Crisis on the governing style of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. According to Çiçek the political m...

On May 4, the news forum Qantara.de published an interview between the legal scholar, Islamic scientist and founding rector of the EZIRE, Mathias Rohe, and the chief editor of the Evangelischen Pressedienst , Judith Kubitschek. Rise gave the wish of many Islamic associations and mosques in Germany t...

Mahmoud Jaraba, Associated Member at EZIRE and Research Fellow at Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, has a new publication in the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs titled „Khul‘ in Action: How Do Local Muslim Communities in Germany Dissolve an Islamic Religious-Only Marriage?“ khul‘ i...

At the end of April 2020, it was announced that the Hessian state government would cancel the cooperation with DİTİB regarding the Islamic religious education in schools. Based on available reports, “the doubts about the necessary criteria by Ditib Hesse could not be eliminated to the necessary degr...

On  April 21 2020, after a consultation at the Oettingers' grave - see her book 'Etwas hoffen muss das Herz'. Eine Familiengeschichte von Juden, Christen und Muslimen (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018) - Gerdien Jonker's "Berlin Walks marked by the Corona Virus" came to an end. After the relaxation in Ber...