Research

The Turkish AKP as Islamic movement, religious life in German schools, asylum in Europe or the Austrian Islam Law: The team of EZIRE did research on different topics and scientific problems in 2016  – from a social science, law, Islamic or religious studies as well as from historical perspectives. H...

The Salafist association “Die Wahre Religion” alias “Stiftung LIES” (“The True Religion” alias “Foundation LIES”) was prohibited by the German Federal Minister of the Interior, Thomas de Maiziere, in mid-November. During raids in ten different federate states, more than 200 flats were searched and a...

How is Islamic pastoral care organised in prisons? How is the situation of Muslims under arrest? How can it be improved? And which projects deal with Islamic Pastoral Care at all? Islamic pastoral care in prisons is still in its very early stages, even if there are (improvised) cooperations betwe...

In the latest issue of the journal „Akademie aktuell“, published by the Bavarian academy of Sciences and Humanities, Mathias Rohe elaborates on first results of the research project “Muslims in Bavaria”, dealing with questions of cooperation, extremism and prevention, Islamic religious education and...

On the 10th of June 2016, the research group on "Islam in Bavaria", headed by the Islamic Scholar and jurisprudent Mathias Rohe, presented its initial findings in the Water’s Hall of the Orangery of Erlangen. Aim of the project, which has been initiated by the Bavarian ministry of education and cult...

"Herausforderungen der empirischen Forschung zu Salafismus. Bestandsaufnahme und kritische Kommentierung der Datenlage" (Empirical Research on Salafism. A critical Evaluation of the State of the Art) - a publication by Riem Spielhaus, Klaus Hummel and Melanie Kamp (2016). Salafism in Germany is s...

Blog article by Riem Spielhaus, sicherheitspolitik-blog (21st January 2016). In current political debates as well as in scientific publications, we often claim to know to little about the phenomenon of Salafism. And in fact; Publications based on empirical data are still rare, while conceptual an...

Publication by Gerdien Jonker, in: Öffentliches Ärgernis. Moscheebaukonflikte in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, ed. by Ernst Fürlinger and Reinhold Bernhard, Zurich: TVZ, p. 123-136. (2016).

Publication by Alexander Schahbasi in the Sicherheitspolitischen Jahresvorschau 2016, Direktion für Sicherheitspolitik, Österreichisches Bundesheer, p. 367-369 (2015). Although there is a trend towards growing potential for conflict, regarding social tensions, situations affecting public safety can...

A peer-reviewed Article by Riem Spielhaus and Martin Herzog in the Journal of Religion in Europe (2015). While in current debates on Islam in Germany recognition is often reduced to incorporation of Islamic organisations under public law, this article demonstrates that German law provides a varie...