Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs is a Lecturer in Islamic and Middle East Studies at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He is interested in transnational Islam and how the Islamic scholarly tradition is debated and negotiated in modern and contemporary Muslim societies, in particular in the Middle East and South Asia. Before coming to Freiburg in October 2017, Simon was a Research Fellow in Islamic Studies at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD in September 2015 at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies. His second book, In a Pure Muslim Land. Shiʿism between Pakistan and the Middle East, was published in April 2019 with University of North Carolina Press. A future project on the global history and impact of the Iranian Revolution is under contract with Princeton University Press. Simon’s work has been published in Modern Asian Studies, the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Welt des Islams, and Islamic Law and Society, among others.