Jamal Malik (born 1956) is a Pakistani-born

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professor of

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and the chair of Religious Studies — Islamic Studies at the

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. Malik was born in 1956 in Peshawar,

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. After finishing his MA in Islamic Studies at the

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(1982), Jamal Malik received his doctoral degree from the

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(1989), and completed his post-doctoral work at the

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(1994). In 1998, he was appointed head of Religious Studies at the

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. Since 1999 he has been the Chair of Religious Studies — Islamic Studies at the

, Germany. He is also a fellow of the

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, a member of the

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, and has served as Directeur d'Etudes at EHESS (1994), in addition to having been a visiting professor at

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(1997),

Jamia Millia Islamia Jamia Millia Islamia is a Public university, public and research university located in Delhi, India. Originally established at Aligarh, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, United Provinces (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India) during the British R ...

(2004-5) and

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(2006-7). His areas of interest include the social history of Muslim South Asia, the sociology of knowledge and Muslims in the West.

Bibliography (select)

* ''Islam in South Asia – A Short History'', Leiden: Brill, 2008 (Indian Edition: Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Ltd., 2012) * ''Madrasas in South Asia. Teaching Terror?'', London and New York: Routledge, 2008 (editor & co-author) * ''Sufism in the West'', London and New York: Routledge, 2006 (co-author & co-editor with John Hinnells) * ''Religious Pluralism in South Asia and Europe'', New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004 (co-editor & co-author with Helmut Reifeld) * ''Islamische Gelehrtenkultur in Nordindien. Entwicklungsgeschichte und Tendenzen am Beispiel von Lucknow'', Leiden: Brill, 1997 * ''Colonialization of Islam: Dissolution of Traditional Institutions in Pakistan'', New Delhi: Manohar Publications, and Lahore: Vanguard Ltd., 1996 * ''Islamisierung in Pakistan, 1977-1984. Untersuchungen zur Auflösung autochthoner Strukturen'', Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1989

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