Bild: Peter Himsel
Member since 2019
born 1982
subject: Islamic Studies
Contact
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Orientalisches Seminar
Platz der Universität 3
79085 Freiburg
Tel.: (0761) 203-3157
simon.w.fuchs@orient.uni-freiburg.de
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
Institut für Studien der Kultur und Religion des Islam
Senckenberganlage 31, 2. OG
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.: 069/798-32751
sim.fuchs@em.uni-frankfurt.de
https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/
Transnational Shi‘i Islam
Global History of the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79
Religious Authority in the Middle East and South Asia
Sectarian Conflicts and the Intellectual History of the Jihad
Islamism and Leftist Movements in the Muslim World
2021-2022
Visiting Professor of Islamic Culture and Society, Goethe University Frankfurt
04/2021
Recipient of the Inaugural Book Award of the South Asian Studies Association (SAMSA) for "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (UNC Press, 2019)
Since 2017
Lecturer in Islamic and Middle East Studies at the Department of Islamic and Middle East Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
2017-2019
Research grant by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Special Program “Islam, the Modern Nation State, and Transnational Movements,” to fund research trips to the US, Lebanon, Tunisia, Pakistan, India, Iran, and Afghanistan
2015-2017
Research Fellow in Islamic Studies at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK
09/2015
PhD in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University (advisor: Muhammad Qasim Zaman). Recipient of the S. S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize on Pakistan, awarded by the Institute for South Asia Studies, University of California Berkeley, USA, the Bayard and Cleveland Dodge Memorial Dissertation Prize, awarded by the Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, USA, and the Dissertation Award (Forschungspreis) of the Annemarie-Schimmel-Foundation for Islamic Studies
2009-2015
PhD candidate at Princeton University, Department of Near Eastern Studies, including research trips to Pakistan, India, Iran, Iraq, and the United Kingdom
2002-2010
M.A. in Islamic Studies and Political Science at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Nürnberg, Germany, Institut Français d’Études Arabes de Damas (Damascus, Syria), Duke University (Durham, NC, USA), Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany, and Tehran University, Iran, supported by Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, (2021, FirstView): 1-22, available open access.
Islamic Law and Society (2020, Advance Articles): 1-25. Islamic Law and Society, 27,4 (2020): 386-410.
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (2020, FirstView): 1-16. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 30,3 (2020): 489-504.
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 43,1 (2020): 1-17.
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 43,1 (2020)
Global Discourse 9,4 (2019): 703-715.
(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019)
BEHEMOTH – A Journal on Civilisation 12,1 (2019): 52-68.
(Oakland: University of California Press, 2017), 189-206 and 299-307.
(London: Hurst, 2017), 217-232 and 290-300.