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In an online article published on 18 February in the magazine zenith, Hüseyin, a political scientist at the University of Vienna and an associate member of EZIRE, writes about the current political situation in Turkey and the associated challenges for the ruling party of Turkish President Recep Tayy...

On the occasion of her master's thesis being awarded the Christoph Schumann Memorial Prize from the Faculty of Philosophy at FAU, the new EZIRE employee gave an interview about her research on Muslim life in rural areas in the context of immigration. Theresia Leis is one of several new members of th...

For a Special Issue of the Journal of Muslims in Europe on Mosque archives in Germany as Sources of Community History, articles are accepted until March 1, 2021. The full CfP can be found here.

On 28 January 2012, a joint online event of the Islam Advice in Bavaria (Islamberatung in Bayern) and the Erlanger Center for Islam and Law in Europe (EZIRE) took place. At the Islamberatung in Bayern, a hospital received a request for advice for a patient order for Muslims. Although there are sp...

On January 12, 2021, format Nachgefragt (Inquired) of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg  published an interview with Katharina Nicolai, research assistant at EZIRE and doctoral candidate at the Chair for Politics and Society of the Middle East. Together with Eric Vollmann (rese...

With reference to the Catholic News Agency (KNA), the news portals domradio.de and qantara.de published on December 14th. an assessment by Prof. Dr. Mathias Rohe, Islamic scholar and lawyer at FAU, and founding rector of EZIRE, on the influence of Sharia law in Germany.

In an interview with the radio station Deutschlandfunk on November 16, Prof. Dr. Mathias Rohe gave an assessment of the plans of the Austrian Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, to introduce political Islam as a criminal offense in view of the recent terrorist attacks in Europe. The complete interview with ...

In a guest contribution in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard on November 12 Hüseyin Çiçek, associated EZIRE-member and researcher at the Institut für Islamisch-Theologische Studien at Uni Wien, elaborates on the geopolitical context, in which the dispute on the freedom of opinion between the Turki...

The rule of law and the liberal society must not be intimidated by terrorist attacks. This statement is stressed by Prof. Mathias Rohe in interviews with the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung and the Evangelischer Pressedienst (epd), to be read at evangelisch.de, on the occasion of the terror attacks in Dresden...

From November 2020 a new DFG-Project, for researching mosque archives in Germany using the Example of the Ahmadiyya-Lahore Archive in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, overseen by Dr. Gerdien Jonker, will be launched. The projects aims to find out how mosque archives as historical sources enrich our knowledge ...