CIR - Centre for Studies in Islamism and Radicalisation Processes

 

Welcome to Centre for Studies in Islamism and Radicalisation. The centre is established at the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus.
The Centre for Studies in Islamism and Radicalisation was established in April 2008 under the auspices of the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus.The centre is an independent research institute founded by the Danish Ministry of Defence and supported by an appropriation of DKK 10 million over a 3-year period.

The Centre has its research focus on the three main pillars: radicalisation, ideologies and the international consequences of Islamism.

Researchers from across a number of sciences and from a number of universities, Danish as well as foreign, get together in the new research centre, with the purpose of gaining a much better understanding of the concepts of Islamism and Jihadism than is currently available.

The Centre for Studies in Islamism and Radicalisation will assemble anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and theologians, who can contribute to the understanding of what happens when Islam becomes a political ideology with the objective of overthrowing Governments.

If you wish to learn more about the center and its work, please click on the links below:

Islamism and Radicalisation. The Denmark-School

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 The Alhambra, Spain                  Great Mosque of Cordoba, 
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Al Azhar Mosque, Egypt                Muhammed Ali Mosque,
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BIN LADEN DOCUMENTS

Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?
May 03, 2012
Authors: Don Rassler, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Liam Collins, Muhammad al-Obaidi, Nelly Lahoud

"The Extreme Right in Norway" CIR Conference 14 Sept 2011

Talks and discussions from the conference are available as sound files

Click here to listen

"North Africa and the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities" - CIR conference, 27-28 May 2011

Lectures and panel discussions from the conference are now available as audio files:

Listen to them here!


CIR’s newest publication!

Western Totalitarianism. A ReminderNew handbook by professor Mehdi Mozaffari with Sara Normann Thordsen(132 pages).
For further information, ordering details etc., please contact the Centre Secretary.

You may order and pay the book via CIR’s webshop.

CIR’s new publications!

Ideology. The Anthropological Perspective

New book by Farhad Khosrokhavar

(251 pages)

Read more her

Price € 25.
You may order and pay the book via CIR’s webshop.

The first public speech of MI6 chief Sir John Sawers on Al-Qaeda, Iran and terrorism

New research reports from CIR

  • June 2010

‘The Iranian Green Movement’ – a short assessment by Mehdi Mozaffari on the occasion of the anniversary of the Green Movement.

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  • May 2010

Paper from guest lecture by professor Bob de Graaff, Utrecht University, Holland: History of Fanaticism: From Enlightenment to Jihad for free download here

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  • April 2010

A new research report from CIR:
Jeunes et radicalisation islamiste : Lille, France.
The report is in French and written by Chahla Beski-Chafiq, Jane Birmant, Hichem Benmerzoug, Akim Taibi and Ariane Coignard.


Click here to download a free pdf version of the report. Should you prefer a printed version (€ 10), please contact centre secretary Ida Warburg: warburg@ps.au.dk stating your name and postal address.

English summary of CIR’s French research report, Youth and Islamist Radicalisation: Lille, France – English Summary.

The report is written by Chahla Beski-Chafiq, Jane Birmant, Hichem Benmerzoug, Akim Taibi and Ariane Goignard.
Click here to download a free pdf version of the summary.
Should you prefer a printed version (€ 10), please contact centre secretary Ida Warburg: warburg@ps.au.dk stating your name and postal address.

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  • March 2010

Muslim Communities Perspectives on Radicalisation in Leicester, UK
Written by Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Robert Lambert, Abdul-Haqq Baker, Safiyah Cohen-Baker and Zacharias Pieri.

Click here to download a free pdf version of the report.

Should you prefer a printed version, it is available for € 10. Please contact centre secretary Ida Warburg: warburg@ps.au.dk, stating your name and postal address.

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  • February 2010

Young Muslims in Italy: Parma and Verona.
Written by Donatella della Porta og Lorenzo Bosi


Click here to download a free pdf version of the report.

Should you prefer a printed version, it is available for € 10. Please contact centre secretary Ida Warburg: warburg@ps.au.dk, stating your name and postal address.

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  • January 2010

House of War. Islamic Radicalisation in Denmark.
Written by Marco Goli and Shahamak Rezaei.

 

Click here to download a free pdf version of the report.

Should you prefer a printed version (€ 10), please contact centre secretary Ida Warburg: warburg@ps.au.dk, stating your name and postal address.

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  • January 2010

January 8, 2010:
Publication of CIR’s first research report

Radicalization among Young Muslims in Aarhus

Written by Lene Kühle and Lasse Lindekilde.

Click here to download a free pdf version of the report.

Should you prefer a printed version (€ 10), please contact centre secretary Ida Warburg: warburg@ps.au.dk, stating your name and postal address.


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Another two papers from CIR are now available in a pdf-version:

Bassam Tibi: Ballot and Bullet. The Politicisation of Islam to Islamism (nov. 2009)

Donatella della Porta: Social Movement Studies and Political Violence (sept. 2009)

TERRORIST THREAT AGAINST DENMARK?

Indiciment of  David Colemand Headley

Indiciment of Tahawwur Hussain Rana

 
Council of Europe Hearing
 

The latest publications:

  • November 2009

Bassam Tibi:
BALLOT AND BULLET: THE POLITICISATION OF ISLAM TO ISLAMISM

About the author
 

  • September 2009

Donatella della Porta:

SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE 

  • July 2009

Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions:

Mehdi Mozaffari
THE RISE OF ISLAMISM IN THE LIGHT OF EUROPEAN TOTALITARIANISM,
Vol. 10, No. 1, 1-13
 

  • June 2009          

Mehdi Mozaffari
IDEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF ISLAMISM      

  • May 2009
    ISLAMISM AS SOCIAL MOVEMENT: 

 I 
Thomas Olesen:
Social Movement Theory and
Radical Islamic Activism

II
Farhad Khosrokhava
Jahadism in Europe and the Middle East 

  • April 2009

ISLAMIST POLICY:
Mehdi Mozaffari:
I  Iranian Ideological Foreign Policy

II Bin Laden’s Foreign Policy - Paths of Amity and Enmity 

SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE

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