The Vienna Journal for Interdisciplinary Islamic Research in Europe, WIIF for short, is the academic journal of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre Islam and Muslims in Europe (IFIME) at the Sigmund Freud Private University and is published online as open access once a calendar year. The WIIF is therefore a platform for differentiated and reflective research into the reality(s) of life of Muslims in Austria and Europe, their social, economic, political and educational participation(s), their fields of activity in various areas of work, study and life and their self-images and images of others.
The WIIF is characterised by its interdisciplinary orientation: contributions, articles and book reviews from sociology, education, law, economics, theology, medicine, futurology, psychology, psychotherapy and many more contribute to an evidence-based, practice-oriented and de-emotionalised academic debate.
While the current focus is on a pan-European stocktaking of previous research efforts on Islam and Muslims with a decided focus on Austria, in the future the legal status of Islam and Muslims in the respective national contexts will be researched in line with the conference focus.
The journal’s guidelines are based on the following objectives:
- Trans- and interdisciplinarity
- Multi-perspective (both internal and external perspective)
- Pan-European perspective
The review of articles in WIIF is carried out by a completely anonymous peer review process (double blind peer review).