Cooperations

Professor Dr. Rohe, Director of FAU EZIRE, is also Director of the Centre for Turkish Law at the Law Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University. The Managing Director is FAU EZIRE employee Dr. Ali Yarayan. The Research Centre for Turkish Law was established in November 2013.

The FAU EZIRE participates in the teachings of the master’s programme Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Jörn Thielmann, Managing Director of the EZIRE, has coordinated the programme since the winter semester of 2013/2014.

The FAU EZIRE participates in the new bachelor’s degree programme “Islamic Religious Studies”, which is part of the courses offered at the FAU since the winter semester of 2012/2013. Furthermore, FAU EZIRE has been involved since the winter semester of 2015/2016 in the master’s programmes “Islamic Religious Studies” and “Media – Ethics – Religion” with a focus on “Islam and media”. In addition, the FAU EZIRE holds joint conferences with the DIRS.

The FAU EZIRE conducts joint courses and research projects as well as the organization of scientific symposia with the Department of Geography, in particular with the Chair for Cultural Geography and Orient Research under Prof. Dr. Georg Glasze.

The Volkswagen Foundation supports the project “The Struggle over Identity, Morality and Public Space in Middle Eastern Cities” (duration 2015-2018), which was developed by the FAU EZIRE in cooperation with the Chair of Contemporary History/Political Science of the Near and Middle East (Prof. Dr. Schumann †) and the Department of Geography.

The Bavarian Orient Colloquium and other joint events are organized with the chairs of Arabistics and Semitistics, Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies, and History and Theology of Eastern Christianity.

The FAU EZIRE participates actively in the section “Middle East” of the Central Institute for Area Studies. Dr. Jörn Thielmann, Managing Director of FAU EZIRE, was elected in the summer semester of 2015 as the speaker for the section “Middle East”.

The FAU EZIRE cooperates with the Central Institute Anthropology of Religions (ZAR), including organizing and conducting conferences. The Director of the FAU EZIRE, Prof. Dr. Mathias Rohe, is a member of the collegial management of the ZAR.

The FAU EZIRE cooperates with the Centre for Euro-Oriental Studies (CEOS), founded in June 2016. Founder members of CEOS are professors and research assistants of FAU, among them Prof. Dr. Mathias Rohe, Director of FAU EZIRE, and Dr. Jörn Thielmann, Managing Director of FAU EZIRE.

The AIWG is a university platform working on research and transfer of Islamic-theological questions in connection to the scientific field and society. It aims at the three goals of research, exchange and objectification of relevant questions and thereby contributes to a levelled discussion of the topic.

The FAU EZIRE participates in the organization of the Bavarian Orient Colloquium (BOK). The BOK is a joint lecture series of the universities Erlangen-Nuremberg and Bamberg. The speakers – many of them will be invited from abroad – report on orient-specific topics. In the winter semester, the BOK takes place at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and is held during the summer semester at the University of Bamberg. The BOK has been in existence since 1985 and has been funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and Arts since 1989.

• Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies – BIGSAS
• Institute of African Studies – IAS
• Cluster of Excellence „Africa Multiple“

• Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Recht als Kultur/Law as Culture”
• Cluster of Excellence “Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies”
• Bonn International Graduate School – Oriental and Asian Studies – BIGs-OAS
• Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg “History and Society during the Mamluk Era (1250-1517)”

The Department of Law and Anthropology was added to the Max-Planck-Institut for Social Anthropology in March 2012. The FAU EZIRE connects to the MPI not only through content work but also especially because of the contact with Dr Mahmoud Jaraba, who works there as a research assistant and is an associated member of FAU EZIRE.

The IMPRS “Global Multiplicity” is dedicated to create a globally renowned consortium for exceptional postgraduate education in anthropology and anthropologically engaged research across various disciplines, including law, sociology, and history.

The DFG-project “Modern India in German Archives 1706-1989” of the Georg-August University Göttingen plans to uncover the rich archival collection about the German-Indian connections and to bring life to the therein slumbering scientific potential. Two FAU EZIRE research assistants, Ph.D. Gerdien Jonker and Dr. Razak Khan are part of the MIDA research team.

The SZIG promotes a scientific articulation of Islam in Swiss society on the one hand, and on the other hand, building on accumulated knowledge, it allows an academic discussion of relevant questions from a Muslim perspective. The competence centre has been up and running since January 2015 and receives funding from the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).

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• LEPOSHS

The Department for the Study of Religions is concerned with a wide range of religions, historically and contemporarily. It emphasizes Islamic, Hinduistic, Buddhist and new religions. The  FAU EZIRE and the Department for the Study of Religions have worked together on numerous projects and are in close contact to start new ones.