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On the 10th of June 2016, the research group on "Islam in Bavaria", headed by the Islamic Scholar and jurisprudent Mathias Rohe, presented its initial findings in the Water’s Hall of the Orangery of Erlangen. Aim of the project, which has been initiated by the Bavarian ministry of education and cult...

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,...

„Regime Change and Islamic Movements: The Turkish AKP and the Egyptian MB in a Compartive Perspective“: a book contribution by Mahmoud Jaraba, in "Religiöse Bewegungen als politische Akteure im Nahen Osten" (edited by Peter Lintl, Christian Thuselt and Christian Wolff), 2016. The collective volum...

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...

"Herausforderungen der empirischen Forschung zu Salafismus. Bestandsaufnahme und kritische Kommentierung der Datenlage" (Empirical Research on Salafism. A critical Evaluation of the State of the Art) - a publication by Riem Spielhaus, Klaus Hummel and Melanie Kamp (2016). Salafism in Germany is s...

Blog article by Riem Spielhaus, sicherheitspolitik-blog (21st January 2016). In current political debates as well as in scientific publications, we often claim to know to little about the phenomenon of Salafism. And in fact; Publications based on empirical data are still rare, while conceptual an...

Publication by Gerdien Jonker, in: Öffentliches Ärgernis. Moscheebaukonflikte in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, ed. by Ernst Fürlinger and Reinhold Bernhard, Zurich: TVZ, p. 123-136. (2016).