Jürgen Wasim Frembgen
Germany
Jürgen Wasim Frembgen is chief curator of the Oriental Department at the Museum of Ethnology in
Munich as well as lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg. Since 1981 he has been teaching Anthropology and Islamic Studies at different universities in Germany. He has also been a visiting lecturer at the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad (National Institute of Pakistan Studies), the National College of Arts in Lahore, as well as Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Since 1981 he has been conducting annual ethnographic field campaigns in Pakistan. His numerous exhibitions include "The Scent of Roses and the Sheen of Sabres. Islamic Art and Culture of the Mughal Period" (1996) and "Food for the Soul -- Worlds of Islam" (2003). He has published over ninety articles and fifteen books and catalogues, many of which deal with material culture, Sufism, the veneration of Muslim saints, and popular culture, particularly in Pakistan.

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