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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

1982- (Date of birth and death)

Deutschland

Islamwissenschaftler (characteristic profession)

Simon W. Fuchs
Simon Fuchs

Research Fellow in Islamic Studies at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, and interested in questions of transnational Islam, religious authority, and renegotiations of the Islamic scholarly tradition in the modern and contemporary Middle East and South Asia. Simon's PhD dissertation, which he completed at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies in 2015, focuses on Shia Islam between the local and the transnational in late colonial India and Pakistan. He is working on a comparative project that investigates the diverging global conceptions and continuing importance of the Islamic schools of law, the “madhahib”, since the mid-nineteenth century.

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