Prof. Dr. Jamal Malik i. R.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
1995 Venia legendi for Islamic Studies, University of Bamberg
1994 Habilitation (post-doctoral degree), University of Bamberg
1993 Completion of the Habilitationsschrift (post-doctoral study)
"Islamic Scholarly Culture in Northern India"
University of Bamberg
1989 Conferral of doctorate, Department of South Asian History, University of Heidelberg
1988 Completion of the dissertation
"Islamization in Pakistan"
Department of South Asian History, University of Heidelberg
(grade: magna cum laude)
1986 - 1988 Continuation Ph.D. studies, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
(Scholarship: Konrad Adenauer Foundation)
1984 - 1986 Research in Pakistan
(Scholarship: Konrad Adenauer Foundation)
1983 - 1984 Ph.D. studies South Asian History, Indology, Islamic Studies,
South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
(Scholarship: Konrad Adenauer Foundation)
1982 M.A.: "The Khaksar Movement in British India"
University of Bonn
1977 - 1982 Undergraduate studies Islamic Studies and Political Science, University of Bonn
1966 - 1977 Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium Bonn (High School), Abitur (A-levels)
1963 - 1966 Primary School, Bonn
Academic Employment History
1999 - Chair of Muslim Cultural & Religious History
University of Erfurt
1998 - 1999 Professor, Head & Chair of Religious Studies
School of Education and Social Science, University of Derby, United Kingdom
1996 - 1997 Officiating Professor "Islamic Studies"
Orientalisches Seminar, University of Bonn
1995 - 1998 Associate Professor
University of Bamberg
1993 - 1996 Assistant Professor
Research project „Transformation of European Colonialism:
Islamic Scholars between Qasbah and Colonial Rulers“
(Grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): app. amounting DM 300.000)
South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg & Humboldt University of Berlin
1990 - 1992 Research Fellow
Research project „Lucknow, Centre of Islamic Scholarship in Northern India“
(Grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): app. amounting DM 220.0009
South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
1990 - 1996 Lecturer
Orientalisches Seminar, University of Bonn
1988 - 1989 Tutor
Seminar für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, University of Heidelberg
1986 - 1989 Continuation Ph.D. studies
South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
(Scholarship: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, app. amounting DM 36.000)
1984 - 1986 Research in Pakistan
(Scholarship: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, app. amounting DM 39.000)
1983 - 1984 Ph.D. studies South Asian History, Indology, Islamic Studies
South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
(Scholarship: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, app. amounting DM 15.000)
1977 - 1982 Undergraduate studies Islamic Studies and Poltical Science, University of Bonn
(Education Advancement Grant (BAföG), app. amounting DM 50.000)
Academic and Professional Honours
2019 - Member Advisory Council Berlin Institute of Islamic Theology
2012 - 2013 Fellow Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study “Law as Culture”
University of Bonn
2007 - 2008 Fellow Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies
University of Erfurt
2007 - 2009 Director
Department of Religious Studies, University of Erfurt
2006 - 2007 WT: Guest professorship
Government College and University Lahore, Pakistan
2004 - 2005 WT: Guest Professorship
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
2003 - 2005 Member of Senate
University of Erfurt
2002 - 2003 Director
Department of Religious Studies, University of Erfurt
2001 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Vienna, Austria
2000 - 2001 Guest Professor
University of Derby, United Kingdom
2000 Dissertation workshop "What is European?"
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Malta
1997 - 1998 The Summer Institute "The Islamic World and Modernity"
Washington D.C., United States
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin &
American Social Science Research Council, New York City, United States
1998 Conferral of the title "Professor of Religious Studies" by the Academic Board
University of Derby, United Kingdom
1997 Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Oberlin College, Cleveland/OH, United States
1997 "Islam in the West"
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Akademie Olang, Valdaora, Italy
1994 Directeur d'Etudes
L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
1993 - Fellow Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
1987 Second Dissertation Workshop of the Committee on the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies
Tangier, Morocco
held by the American Social Science Research Council, New York City
Professional Associations
2019 - Member Advisory Board Al-Istidrak, University of Karachi
2018 - Member Editorial Advisory Board Journal of Historical Studies, University of Multan
2017 - Member Advisory Board Journal of South Asian Intellectual History, Leiden
2013 - Member Advisory Board Urdu Encyclopaedia of Islam
Lahore, Pakistan
2012 - Member Advisory Board Islamic Studies
Pakistan
2012 - Member Editorial Board International Journal of Islamic Revival
India
2009 - Member Working Group Ständige Perspektiv-AG zu gesellschaftspolitischen Fragen der Integration von Menschen aus islamischen Ländern
George Anawati Foundation and Catholic Academy Wolfsburg (Mühlheim a.d.R.)
2009 - Editorial Advisor Yearbook of Muslims in Europe
Leiden, The Netherlands
2009 - Reviewer Migrations and Identities
Liverpool, United Kingdom
2007 - Reviewer Islamic Studies
Islamabad, Pakistan
2007 - Reviewer Pakistan Journal of History and Culture
Karachi, Pakistan
2006 - Foreign Expert Social Sciences to Higher Education Commission
Islamabad, Pakistan
2006 - 2008 Member Working Group German Islam Conference (DIK)
2005 - 2009 Member Working Group Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) on “Christians and Muslims”
2005 - Chairman Scientific Board Muslimische Akademie in Deutschland
2003 - 2007 Editorial Board Fikrun wa Fann
Inter Nationes/Goethe Institute
2003 Founding Member Annemarie Schimmel Forum
Bonn
1998 - 2000 Member Scientific Board Asia-Foundation
Essen
1998 - 2004 Member British Association of South Asian Studies
1998 - 2004 MultiFaithNet Consultant on Muslim Communities
University of Derby, United Kingdom
1997 - 1998 Faculty Member The German-American Academic Council (GAAC)
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin & American Social Science Research Council, New York City, United States
1996 - 1998 Member Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), Tucson/AZ, United States
1996 European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS)
Leiden, The Netherlands
1995 - Member Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO)
1995 - 2000 Europe-wide Conference for Urdu Teachers
London, United Kingdom
Publications
Courses taught
- Cultural and Religious History in Muslim South Asia
- Islamic Mysticism
- Social History of South Asia
- Religion and Media
- Religion in Situations of Migration
- Muslim Cultural Representation in Europe
- Religious Pluralism and Dialogue
- Political Islam
- Modern Languages of the Islamic World
- Crusades, Jerusalem
- Migration and Film
- Religious Specialists
International Cooperations
Coordinator of exchange programmes for students and staff with
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey
- Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
- International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
- Jamia Millia islamia, New Delhi, India
- University of Peshawar, Pakistan
- University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
- University of Tehran, Iran
- guest academicians from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey; supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Higher Education Commission (Pakistan)
Other
- lectures at training centres, DAAD, parishes and deaneries, political foundations, trade associations, Chamber od Industry and Commerce, Muslim Associations etc.
- membership in university boards and committees (senate, faculty, academic appointments, auditions and thesis defences, foreign relations committee)
- development and conceptualisation of curricula
- consulting and reviewing (not to be disclosed due to data protection laws)
- Co-editorship of the series Islam im Lebenskontext Europa, Münster: LIT Verlag
- Co-editorship of the series Vorlesungen des interdisziplinären Forums Religion, Münster: Aschendorff
Languages:
German, English, French, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Persian, Arabic
ResearchGate page: here
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