JAMAL MALIK
was born in Peshawar, Pakistan. He obtained his M.A in 1982 from
Read Islamic Studies in Bonn and was awarded a Doctorate by the
South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg. His Postdoctoral
research was at the University of Bamberg. From 1990-1996 he served
as a Member of the Scientific Staff of the University of Heidelberg
and Humboldt University, Berlin, and went on to become a Visiting
Professor at l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)
and at Oberlin. Since 1993, he has been part of the Society of
Great Britain and Ireland, London and a Member of the European
Academy of Sciences and the Arts, Vienna since 2000. His fields
of research include Muslim Minority Communities in Europe, Islamic
Mysticism, Social History of South Asia, Colonialism, Interculturality,
Political Islam, Urban Societies, Modern Islamic Languages, and
Sociology of Religion.
Recommended
Readings:
- Colonialization
of Islam: Dissolution Of Traditional Institutions in Pakistan
by Jamal Malik
