Research

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 ...

The Bavarian Orient Colloquium (BOK) is a joint lecture series of the universities Erlangen-Nürnberg and Bamberg. The orient-affiliated institutes of both universities in turns invite speakers from the areas of philology, religious studies, political science, history as well as theology and philosop...

"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...

Since the beginning of the Arab spring, it has become apparent that borders in the Middle East are redrawn. The struggle for power and resources has also framed the Iraqi-Kurdish referendum for independence. In the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Hüseyin Çiçek comments on the backgrounds of the election. F...

Will the two conflicting Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah manage to achieve a lasting reconciliation and to establish a united Palestinian leadership? The Carnegie Middle East Center has asked a variety of scholars to assess the chances for reconciliation. Among them is Mahmoud Jaraba, politica...

Based on the so-called "Rome-III-Regulation", the Danish advocate general at the European Court of Justice has spoken out against the recognition of private divorces based on Islamic law within the EU. He argues that women were not granted the same access to divorce as men. The final judgement of th...

In his new contribution "Weder Fluch noch Segen. Die Türkei und die deutsche Einheit", Dr. Hüseyin Çiçek, political scientist and scientific researcher at EZIRE, analyses the impact of the German reunification for the relationship with Turkey. His article is part of the edited volume "Europa und ...

In the following winterterm, the scientific researchers at EZIRE once again offer a variety of courses that can be visited by students of the MA program Middle Eastern studies or as guest students. Mathias Rohe teaches the principles of Islam law, Nina Nowar elaborates on the political reorganiza...

In an interview with the German newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung, Mathias Rohe, Islamic Scholar and director of the EZIRE, talks about the phenomenon of child marriage. In Islamic countries, child marriage was first and foremost a phenomenon of poverty and often took place in combination with patriarcha...