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Welcome to the Department of Islamic-Religious Studies (DIRS)
The Department of Islamic-Religious Studies (DIRS) is the youngest department in the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, and was opened on September 27th, 2012. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, DIRS represents the imparting of pluralistic theological traditions in Islam and provides students with profound knowledge of the Islamic religion. With their character, biography, and interests, the researchers working at DIRS contribute to this department and enable the transmission of diverse Islamic teachings of theology and norms, as well as mystical, ethical, and philosophical traditions.
Building up on the two conferences: Rationality in the Islamic Theology: the classical period (2015) and the modern period (2017), Prof. Maha El Kaisy-Friemuth of the Chair of Practical Theology and Kalām at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) is organizing the international ...
Prof. Maha El Kaisy (Chair of Practical Theology an Kalām) is glad to welcome Prof. Ahmad Atif Ahmad from the Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara as a visiting professor.
Here is a schedule of his visit: „schedule“
For inquiries contact:
Muham...
07th – 08th July, 2022
The Moroccan intellectual Mohammed Abed al-Jabri believed that philosophy became established in the Western part of the Islamic world mainly through Ibn Rushd. Philosophy, he said, was an intellectual struggle against the irrational elements, and by this he also meant an East...
Chair of Islamic-Religious Studies with the Focus Text Analysis and Jurisprudence looks back on an intensive and interdisciplinary working week.
The focus of the lectures and discussions held at this week of events was on the fundamental issues of Islamic theology, especially concerning the relatio...
The Chair of Islamic-Religious Studies with the Focus Text Analysis and Jurisprudence of Prof. Mohammed Nekroumi welcomes the renowned hadith researcher Prof. Jonathan Brown from Georgetown University as part of a visiting professorship at the Department of Islamic Religious Studies at the Friedrich...
