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In an interview in the Leipzig University magazine, Hatem Elliesie talks about his research into Muslim communities in Germany and public debates about the phenomenon of so-called “parallel societies”.

On 10 June 2021, Group Leader Hatem Elliesie discussed his research on Islam in Germany with Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo di Fabio, a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court and host of the podcast “Auf den Grund! – Wissenschaft im Gespräch mit Udo di Fabio”.

The latest issue of Medaon, a journal that focuses on Jewish life-worlds, features an article by Dr. Gerdien Jonker that deals with the Working Group Churches and Religious Communities in Greater Berlin (AKR).

In an interview with Götz Nordbruch, co-director of ufuq.de, Mahmoud Jaraba spoke, among other things, about current trends within the Salafist scene in Bavaria and discussed ways of dealing with said scene. In general, the influence the Salafist scene has had on its followers had been quite powe...

What is Political Islam? How does he differ from traditionalist Muslims? What impact do those ideologies have on Muslim communities, how does coexistence of different views wordk and how can there be a greater understanding? Prof. Dr. Matthias Rohe in an interview for the magazine FAU-Alexander.

Hatem Elliesie is Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Head of Junior Research Group at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). During the summer semester 2021 is serving as Acting Professor for Islamic Law at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the ...

Ülkü Ocakları – far-right extremists with Turkish-Islamist ideologies, also called Grey Wolves - are active in various Turkish and Turkish-Islamist organizations in Germany and Austria. In this recently published analysis by EICTP (European Institute for Counter Terrorism and Conflict Prevention)...

On 21 March, an article by the political scientist and religious scholar at the University of Vienna, as well as an associate member of the EZIRE, Hüseyin Çiçek, was published on the news site Ahval. In the article, Çiçek addresses the current debates on the integration of Islam and Muslims in Eu...

In the current digital edition of the ZWD political magazine, Mathias Rohe, law professor and Islamic scientist at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and founding rector of the EZIRE, takes a stand on questions in dealing with radical Islamist teachings. In order to address the ma...

With Dominik Müller, M. A., the EZIRE has expanded its expertise in the field of methods of social anthropology. The ethnologist, Islamic and political scientist, who works at the Department for Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich, has been enriching the ac...