Publications

For Project MIDA - Modern India in German Archives 1706-1989 - EZIRE research assistant Gerdien Jonker has retrieved and studied the supposedly lost archive of the Ahmadiyya mosque in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. In the now available first publication "The Mosque Archive in Berlin-Wilmerdorf: Of Muslim Mo...

Click here for the updated version (20/02/2019) of the brief assessment (in German).

Issue 2, 2018 of the the Salzburger Theological Journal includes an article by EZIRE associate Hüseyin Çiçek titled "The AKP's Islamic-Conservative Populism". The journal, which focuses on systematic scientific questions, dedicates this issue to the main topic of "right-wing populism and religion...

The study has been crafted over a 3-year-period (2015-2018) and broadly examines the living environments of Muslims in Bavaria. Its second purpose is that of a policy paper as it offers strategies and recommendations for the Bavarian government.

The study "Islamic Community Life in Berlin" was presented in Berlin on 17th July 2018, commissioned by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and published by Prof. Dr. Riem Spielhaus, Nina Mühe, M.A. and the EZIRE. The study, which takes up publications from 1999 and 2006, provides an ove...

03-12-2018: Jörn Thielmann, Niels Valdemar Vinding and Egdunas Racius published the 27th volume of the Series "Muslim Minorities" by BRILL. In "Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe", a number of authors reflect the work Islamic scholar and head of the scientific advisory board of EZIRE, J...

In the beginning of march, the newest publication by Dr. Gerdien Jonker, scientific researcher at EZIRE, will be published by the Wallstein Verlag. In "Etwas hoffen muss das Herz", religious studies scholar Jonker traces an extract of European religious history in the kaleidoscope of a family histor...

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 ...

"Between Jews and Muslims" is based on the assets of the Oettinger family, a commented collection of personal belongings, documents and photographs that is being held in a shrine by the descendants of the family up until today. Its discovery allowed reconstructing the personal decisions of seven generations of a family...