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In an interview with the broadcasting station Deutsche Welle, Mathias Rohe, lawyer, Islamic scholar and director of EZIRE, welcomes the verdict of the German Federal Supreme Court on the Wuppertal "Sharia police". The court ruled that public presence with reflective vests marked "Sharia police" can ...

Just how peaceful is religion? In a debate with the German newspaper Nürnberger Nachrichten, Mathias Rohe, director of EZIRE, debates the violent potential of Islam and Christendom together with Tarek Badawia, professor for Islamic-Religious Studies and Islamic education at FAU, and Stefan Ark Nitsc...

Please note that the EZIRE team will be unavailable from 22/12/2017 until 05/01/2018 due to the christmas break. We will be back in the office on Monday, 08/01/2018. Meanwhile, we wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

On behalf of the Hessen Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts, Mathias Rohe, Islamic and legal scholar and director of EZIRE, has examined a possible influence of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) on the faith-oriented Islamic education in Hessen. Furthermore, Roh...

The conference "End(s) of Time(s)", hosted by the IKGF Erlangen in cooperation with EZIRE, takes place from 11 December until 13 December 2017 in the seminar room of building D in the Hartmannstr. 14 in Erlangen. Scholars from different disciplines will discuss concepts of last judgements and salvat...

From the 25th until the 28th of November 2017, the 17th Munich Science Days will take place at the Theresienhöhe in Munich. Based on theme "Plans for the future: Research, Society, Hamas", more than 300 scientists will present their research topics to the public. The EZIRE also participates: On S...

The next meeting of the working group „Nürnberger Präventionsnetzwerks gegen religiös begründete Radikalisierung“ is scheduled for Thursday, 16 November, from 4pm to 7pm. Meeting point is the südpunkt in Nürnberg (Pillenreuther Str. 147). Anyone interested is cordially invited! At 4.20pm, the exe...

The exhibition "Geschichte einer Familie - Jüdische Gemeinde in Marienwerder", which takes place from October 17, 2017 until January 31, 2018, in Kwydzin, Poland, is based on the research of Gerdien Jonker. Jonker, scientific researcher at EZIRE, has traced the history of Jewish family Oettinger, wh...

The new publication by Gerdien Jonker, which will be published in 2018 by the Wallstein Verlag, tells the story of the Oettingers, a Prussian-Jewish family from Posen. Recognized as German citizens in in 1836, the family members went from being Prussian Jews to German patriots, who proved their loya...

How many Muslims live in the Principality of Liechtenstein - and since when? What does their religious daily life look like? And what challenges do they face? The new study Islam in Liechtenstein, compiled by Hüseyin İ. Çiçek, scientific researcher at EZIRE, in cooperation with the Liechtenstein ...