Curriculum Vitae
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Senior Research Fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. Research focus: |
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Senior Lecturer of political science
(Privatdozent) at the
Free University Berlin
since 1991 on:
Principle Investigator for Political Science / South Asia at Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies at Free University Berlin from 2008
Visiting
Professor of South Asian History at Seminar of
South
Asian History and Civlilization of Humboldt University Berlin, Summer Term
2007 |
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Member of
Global Agenda Council on Pakistan 2009, 2011, for the World Economic Forum
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Graduated in International Politics in 1975 (Moscow, Institute of International
Relations). Defended PhD dissertation
in modern history of South Asia on nation-building in Pakistan and the politics of the military regime under
General Zia-ul-Haq at Humboldt University Berlin in 1987. Worked for the (East)
Berlin Academy of Sciences' Research Institute of General History in 1987-1991. Defended postdoctoral Habilitation thesis in political science on "Allah's Kingdom on Earth - the Contestation of the Public
Sphere by Islamic Groups in Colonial India (1900-1947)" at Free University
Berlin in October 2003 published by Oxford University Press in 2006 (see below).
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Conducted and directed inter-disciplinary
project-based research at the ZMO Berlin (Centre for
Modern Oriental Studies) between 1992 and 2000, and since 2003, with intermittent
association with Humboldt-University
Berlin at the Chair of Non-Arabian Islam in 2001-02, funded by the German Research Fund (Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft) and the Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF):
Co-chairing the Competence network
Crossroads Asia (2011-2014) and conducting case study (work package M.4, jointly with Aksana
Ismailbekova):
In and out of South Asia and Central Asia: Transnational Community-Building in
Religious and Ethnic Networks.
Muslims in
Europe
(2006-09/10; head of BMBF research group) -
Bridging
the gap -
(2006-07; supervision)
Transcultural Transfer of Islamic Knowledge
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The Force of Moral Conviction -
(2001-03)
Allah's Kingdom on Earth -
(1996-2000) |
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Visited India, Pakistan,
Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa, Britain, France and the U.S. on various occasions for research and on
fellowships. Was a Fellow at the Mario
Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University in the U.S. (spring semester
1992)
under a programme for Young Eastern German Fellows of the American
Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
sponsored by the
Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft; and at
St Antony's College in Oxford, U.K.,
(Michaelmas term 1992)
under a programme of the
VW
Foundation. |
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Contributed to
international conferences, such as the European Conferences on Modern South
Asian Studies 1990, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006; the Annual Conferences of the
American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies at Villanova University,
PA, in 1992, 1995, 1999, 2006. Delivered talks on topics such as Kashmir, Central
Asia, Globalisation and Islam, the cultural factor in the nuclear arms race in
South Asia at seminars and conferences at the Universities of Karachi, Peshawar
and Islamabad (Pakistan), at Mumbai, Delhi, and Baroda (India) in 1994, 1996 -
98, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2009; and on Global networking of South Asian Muslims at
visits to South-East Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Singapore in
2005-10. |
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His latest book was published in 2010 by Waxman publisher on "Islam in Europe: Religious Life Today" (Islam in Europa: Religiöses Leben heute). Co-edited a themed issue of the journal of "Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East" on "South- South Linkages in Islam" in 2007 (no. 1). Published "Islam in the Public Sphere: Religious Groups in India, 1900-1947" from Oxford University Press in 2006. For a full list of publications, see separate listing. |
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