Christoph Marcinkowski

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Christoph Marcinkowski

Christoph Marcinkowski (born May 21, 1964 in West Berlin ) is a German scholar of Islam and Iran who specializes in the past and present of Shiite Islam .

Life

Christoph Marcinkowski studied Islamic Studies , Iranian Studies and Political Science at the Free University of Berlin until 1993 . In 1998 he was at the International Islamic University Malaysia , Kuala Lumpur , with a thesis on state administration in Safavid Iran doctorate .

This was followed by several years of research and teaching in Singapore and Malaysia , including from 2002 as Associate Professor of History at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) in Kuala Lumpur. From 2004 to 2005 he worked at the Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University , New York , under the direction of Ehsan Yarshater, as a contributing author to the Encyclopædia Iranica . Until about 2006 he published under the name M. Ismail Marcinkowski , since then as Christoph Marcinkowski .

From 2006 to 2007 he researched and taught on the past and present of the Shia in Southeast Asia , on foreign policy and the nuclear program of Iran as well as on security policy aspects in the Persian Gulf , Lebanon and Iraq at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS, formerly known as the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, IDSS), the think tank of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and the Asia Research Institute (ARI) of the National University of Singapore (NUS). From 2007 he was Research Fellow at the Asia-Europe Institute (AEI) of the University of Malaya , from 2008 Principal Research Fellow and head of the publications department of the Malaysian International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) in Kuala Lumpur.

After returning to Germany in early 2013, Marcinkowski became a consultant for human rights and religious freedom at the Catholic missionary organization missio in Aachen. He is particularly interested in the fate of religious and ethnic minorities in the Islamic world. Marcinkowski has been working as an independent researcher and political advisor in Berlin since 2015, specializing in counter-terrorism , extremism and international security . He is also a visiting contributor at the US think tank Middle East Institute (MEI).

Honors

Fonts

Cover of Mirza Rafia's Dastur al-Muluk , 2002

As an author

  • Religion and Politics in Iraq. Shi'ite Clerics between Quietism and Resistance. With a foreword by Hamid Algar . Pustaka Nasional, Singapore 2004, ISBN 9971-77-513-1 (extended English translation of Marcinkowski's Taqiya versus Wilayat al-Faqih : The Shiite theologians of Iraq and their relationship to state power. MA thesis, Free University Berlin, 1992).
  • From Isfahan to Ayutthaya : Contacts between Iran and Siam in the 17th Century. With a foreword by Ehsan Yarshater . Pustaka Nasional, Singapore 2005.
  • Shi'ite identities. Community and Culture in Changing Social Contexts (= Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology. Volume 27). Lit, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-80049-7 .
  • with Nora S. Eggen: Islam in Europe: Present Trends and Future Challenges (= IAIS Monograph. Volume 4). International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 2012, ISBN 978-967-10065-4-2 .
  • Bahrain (= country reports on religious freedom. Issue 25). missio , Aachen 2014, ISSN  2193-4339 ( PDF; 750 kB ).
  • Qatar (= country reports on religious freedom. Issue 26). missio, Aachen 2014, ISSN 2193-4339 ( PDF; 736 kB ).

As editor

  • The Islamic World and the West: Managing Religious and Cultural Identities in the Age of Globalization (= Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology. Volume 24). Lit, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-80001-5 .
  • Malaysia and the European Union: Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century (= Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology. Volume 32). Lit, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-80085-5 .

As a translator or commentator

  • Mirza Rafi'a's Dastur al-Muluk: A Manual of Later Safavid Administration. Annotated English Translation, Comments on the Offices and Services, and Facsimile of the Unique Persian Manuscript. ISTAC, Kuala Lumpur 2002.
  • Measures and Weights in the Islamic World. An English translation of Professor Walther Hinz's Handbook “Islamic Weights and Measures”. With a foreword by Clifford Edmund Bosworth . ISTAC, Kuala Lumpur 2003. (Authorized English translation of the German original by Walther Hinz : Islamic measures and weights, converted into the metric system (= Handbook of Oriental Studies . 1st section, supplementary volume I, volume 1). 2nd edition. EJ Brill, Leiden 1970.)
  • Persian Historiography and Geography: Bertold Spuler on Major Works. Produced in Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia, India and Early Ottoman Turkey. With a foreword by Clifford Edmund Bosworth. Pustaka Nasional, Singapore 2003. (Authorized English translation of the German original by Bertold Spuler : The historical and geographical literature in Persian language (= Handbook of Oriental Studies . 1st Department, Volume IV, 2nd Section, Delivery 1). EJ Brill, Leiden / Cologne 1982, pp. 101–167.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Short biography on the website of the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore , March 2006.
  2. ↑ Muhammad Ismail Marcinkowski: Mirza Rafi'a's Dastur al-Muluk. A manual of later Safavid administration. Ph.D. thesis, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Kuala Lumpur 1998.
  3. ↑ z. BM Ismail Marcinkowski: The Dastūr ol-Molūk Again. Recently discovered additions to the manuscript of Mīrzā Rafīʿā's Manual of Ṣafavid Administration. In: Journal of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (ZDMG), Volume 157 (2007), pp. 395-416.
  4. ^ Author entry in the catalog of the DNB
  5. ↑ misso human rights officer calls for a clever economic policy by the federal government towards Egypt ( memento of the original dated November 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release from missio, January 30, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.missio-hilft.de
  6. ↑ Christoph Marcinkowski. In: AMESA - Directory of Scholars of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Columbia University Libraries, accessed July 20, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Christoph Marcinkowski. In: mei.edu. Middle East Institute, accessed July 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Marcinkowski, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marcinkowski, Muhammad Ismail
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar of Islam and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH West Berlin