Centre for European Islamic Thought

At the beginning of October 2007, a Centre of European Islamic Thought started its work based in the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. At its core is the professorship in European Islamic Thought and Modernity funded for five consecutive years by the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF).

The focus of the Centre is on Islamic religious thought in contemporary Europe, the processes and circumstances in which it is appearing, seeking to locate and understand it in the context both of the history of Islamic religious thought and of contemporary developments in Islamic thinking, and evaluate it as a response to the European environment specifically and to modernity more generally. The centre will provide opportunities for comparative work on the contemporary development of both Islam and Christianity within the common European context.

Religare Project

A three-year research project on religious pluralism in Europe. It comprises 13 universities and research centers from across the European Union and Turkey RELIGARE inquire into responses to and experiences with religious diversity and its challenges - read more here 

Grundforskningsfonden

Polling Muslims

A post-doc project by Riem Spielhaus and Birgitte Schepelern Johansen. Read about the "Polling Muslims" research project here