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Gabriele Marranci

BA, MA (Bologna), PhD (Queen's Belfast) Honorary Lecturer in Religious Studies Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Islam University of Western Sydney Email: g.marranci@uws.edu.au

After training as an anthropologist in his native Italy, Dr Marranci moved to Aberdeen in 2003 to take up a position as Lecturer in Religious Studies. In 2008, he was appointed Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Islam at the University of Western Sydney. He also is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. His research interests include the role of religion in identity formation, Muslim migration/immigration, fundamentalism, political Islam, and criminology. He is a founding editor of the journal Contemporary Islam.

Representative Publications:

• Understanding Muslim Identity, Rethinking Fundamentalism (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
• The Anthropology of Islam (London and New York: Berg, 2007)
• Jihad beyond Islam (London and New York: Berg, 2006)

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