Research

EZIRE warmly congratulates Serdar Aslan on his PhD thesis, which has now been under the title "Die deutsche Koranliteratur. Biographie and Bibliographie". (The German Quranic literature. Biography and bibliography)

An article written by Dr Mahmoud Jaraba addresses the practice of khulʿ, a specific procedure, in which women can give a divorce by returning the dower (mahr) or anything else that she received.

The EZIRE cordially invites to the kick-off event of the working group "Medical Ethics and Islam" in Erlangen. On May 12, 2022 from 9:00-16:00, the contributors will introduce themselves and discuss the long-term goals of the working group.

The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) honours EZIRE Deputy Managing Director Dr Stephanie Müssig with the 2021 Peregrinus Foundation Award "for her significant research contribution to the empirically grounded understanding of Muslim beliefs and practices in Germany."

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Katja Thörner, Dominik Müller and Jan-Peter Hartung as new colleagues at the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe (EZIRE).

On its homepage, the service platform for journalists “MEDIENDIENST INTEGRATION” (Migration Media Service) published an article written by Mahmoud Jaraba. The EZIRE employee provides insights into the results of his research work of several years on Arab-Turkish or Kurdish extended families and "clan criminality".

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).

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)...

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...

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...