Events

Book presentation by Gerdien Jonker on 9th June 2016 at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin: What happens when the idea of religious progress propels the shaping of modernity? In The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress. Missionizing Europe 1900 – 1965 Gerdien Jonker offers an account of ...

At the annual reception of bishop Trelle in Hildesheim, Prof. Mathias Rohe gave a speech on migration, integration and the German legal culture. "Our legal system has to be a blueprint of lasting peace", said Rohe, who is founding rector of the Erlangen centre for Islam and peace in Europe (EZIRE). ...

A panel discussion about young Muslim extremists in Germany. The radical Islamism reached a new dimension, due to the violent crimes by the Islamic State. The terror attacks in Paris and Brussels showed us that the danger of Islamist radicalism has already reached Europe. More and more youths bec...

The term "Parallel Justice" refers to an alternative dispute resolution that is not based on the democratic statutes of German law. Mostly foregrounded is the protection or restoration of a social validity claim – namely honour. At a conference of the Hanns-Seidel-foundation on April 6th 2016,...

Can Islam belong to Europe? This question cannot be answered in one sentence. In his evening lecture at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Rohe talked about the manifold streams of Islam. As jurisprudent and Islamic scholar, Rohe showed how these streams react to the parameters of European cons...

Conference on 4th-5th November 2015 in Nuremberg, in cooperation with the associations represented in the German Islam Conference (DIK). For a long time, Muslims in Germany have been calling for their own, fully differentiated charity organisations, in analogy to those of the Christian church. Bu...

The Bavarian Orient-Colloquium offers a lecture series on the subject Orient lecture series on the subject Orient in the winter semester 2015/2016 in Erlangen.

In cooperation with the Chair of Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law Prof. Dr. Mathias Rohe, Pakistani lawyers of the University of Management and Technology (UMT) School of Law and Policy (SLP) from Lahore participated from 21st July to 03rd August 2015 in the diverse events. I...

An interdisciplinary symposium in cooperation with the Central Institute "Anthropology of Religion(s)", on 17-18th September 2015 in Erlangen. In the intellectual and spiritual tradition of Islam the notions of the dignity of man and his moral deficiency have always been some of the principal con...

Book presentation "Handbuch Christentum und Islam in Deutschland" with a panel discussion on 8th July 2015 in Erlangen. 55 renowned Christian and Muslim authors – all living in Germany – enter in the “Handbuch Christentum und Islam in Deutschland” in the dialog, ask what challenges there are, an...