Jürgen Wasim Frembgen

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Jürgen Wasim Frembgen (* 1955 ) is a German ethnologist , Islamic scholar and writer. His main focus is on Islamic religious and cultural history, in particular Islamic mysticism ( Sufism ), the cultures of Pakistan , Iran and India .

Professional background

Frembgen studied ethnology , comparative religious studies and oriental art history at the universities of Bonn and Heidelberg . In 1985 he received his doctorate in anthropology at the University of Heidelberg and his habilitation in Islamic studies at the University of Erlangen in 2003 .

He was the main curator and head of the Orient Department at the Völkerkundemuseum in Munich, and he also taught as an adjunct professor for the religious and cultural history of Islam at the Institute for the Near and Middle East at the University of Munich .

Since 1981 he has carried out ethnographic field research in Pakistan every year and works in Iran and India.

Frembgen has taught as visiting professor at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad , the National College of Arts in Lahore and Ohio State University in Columbus . He published a large number of monographs , exhibition catalogs and academic articles on the cultures of Islam, as well as several narrative reports on Pakistan. In 2010 he was awarded the Pakistani Order of Merit Tamgha-e imtiaz .

Frembgen organized numerous literary readings in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Pakistan. Since 2010 he has regularly participated in international literature festivals.

Fonts (selection)

  • Central violence in rodents (Karakoram). Political forms of organization, ideological justifications for royalty and changes in modernity . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1985
  • Everyday behavior in Pakistan . EXpress-Edition , Berlin 1987
  • Naswar. The use of oral tobacco in Afghanistan and Pakistan , Bibliotheca Afghanica, Liestal 1989
  • Dervishes. Lived Sufism. Wandering mystics and ascetics in the Islamic Orient . DuMont, Cologne 1993; modified new edition: Journey to God. Sufis and dervishes in Islam . CH Beck, Munich 2000
  • Clothing and equipment for Islamic seekers of God. A contribution to the material culture of dervishes , Harrassowitz Verlag , Wiesbaden 1999
  • Food for the soul - Worlds of Islam , State Museum of Ethnology, Munich 2003
  • Tying and Untying the Trouser Cord. Dimensions of Normativity, Morality, and Emotion in Pakistani Body Behavior. In: The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 5/1, 2004, pp. 49-70.
  • The Friends of God - Sufi Saints in Islam. Popular Poster Art from Pakistan . Oxford University Press, Karachi 2006
  • Honor, Shame, and Bodily Mutilation. Cutting off the Nose among Tribal Societies in Pakistan. In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 16/3, 2006, pp. 243-260.
  • Journey to God. Sufis and Dervishes in Islam . Oxford University Press, Karachi 2008
  • At the shrine of the red Sufi. Five days and nights on pilgrimage in Pakistan . Waldgut, Frauenfeld 2008
  • Marginality, Sexuality and the Body. Professional masseurs in Urban Muslim Punjab. In: The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology 9/1, 2008, pp. 1-28.
  • as editor: The Aura of Alif. Calligraphy in Islam . Prestel, Munich 2010
  • Night music in the land of the Sufis. Unheard of Pakistan . Waldgut, Frauenfeld 2010
  • At the Shrine of the Red Sufi. Five Days and Nights on Pilgrimage in Pakistan . Oxford University Press, Karachi 2011
  • Nocturnal Music in the Land of the Sufis. Unheard Pakistan . Oxford University Press, Karachi 2012
  • Dhamāl and the Performing Body: Trance Dance in the Devotional Sufi Practice of Pakistan. In: Journal of Sufi Studies 1, 2012, pp. 77–113.
  • The closed valley. With well-fortified friends in the Pakistani Himalayas , Waldgut, Frauenfeld 2013
  • Wrestlers, Pigeon Fanciers and Kite Flyers. Traditional Sports and Pastimes in Lahore . Oxford University Press, Karachi 2014 (with Paul Rollier)
  • A thousand cups of tea. Enjoyment of life in the Orient . Lambert Schneider / WBG, Darmstadt 2014
  • The Closed Valley. With Fierce Friends in the Pakistani Himalaya . Oxford University Press, Karachi 2014
  • Daughters of the steppe, sons of the wind. Turkmen gold and silver . Hirmer, Munich 2015
  • Sufi tonic. On the way in Pakistan and India . Edition Tethys, Potsdam 2016
  • The Arts and Crafts of the Hunza Valley in Pakistan . Oxford University Press, Karachi 2017
  • The riddle of the arrow. Encounters with Sufi masters. Waldgut, Frauenfeld 2017
  • A Thousand Cups of Tea. Among Tea Lovers in Pakistan and Elsewhere in the Muslim World. Oxford University Press, Karachi 2017
  • Forbidden, damned, forbidden - but also loved: Music in Islam. In: Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Yearbook 31, Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, pp. 115–125
  • Spirituality in Islam: The Sufi Tradition. In: Z. Sejdini (Ed.): Islam in Europe. Encounters, conflicts and solutions . Waxmann, Münster / New York 2018, pp. 93–109
  • There is a castle with a thousand gates. Sayings of the Sufis. Edition Avicenna, Munich 2019

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SURNAME Frembgen, Jürgen Wasim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist and Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1955