February 10, 2016 If one were to judge from the bulk of current news reporting on the rise of xenophobia and Islamophobia in Germany, one might be tempted to think that the far-right opposition to the ‘Islamisation of the Occident’ is above all a secularist affair. To be sure, the marchers at Pegida rallies ritually…
February 10, 2016 In the current German debate on immigration, reservations and fears about the new arrivals are not confined to the ethnically German population. In November 2015, according to a YouGov survey commission by the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, 40 per cent of Germans with a migration background asserted that Germany ought to take…
February 10, 2016 Faculties of Islamic theology at German universities will continue to expand over the next few years, following a string of deals struck between universities and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The federal government financially supports research and teaching in Islamic theology at the universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Frankfurt/ Gießen, Münster, Osnabrück,…
February 10, 2016 In an interview with Qantara.de, Ahmad Milad Karimi, professor for kalam in the Faculty for Islamic Studies at Münster University, offered a survey of the state of Islamic thought and theology in Germany. Karimi, who published a German translation of the Quran in 2009 that sought to capture the book’s poetic spirit…
February 10, 2010 On February 3, 2016, a conference titled ‘Islamic Feminism – International Convergences’ was held by the Action Committee of Muslim Women and the SPD-linked Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Berlin. According to its organisers, which included renowned academic Tuba Işık and journalist Kubra Gümüşay, the meeting aimed to discuss ways in which Muslim…
