Frank Peter

PD Dr. Frank Peter

wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

FAU Forschungszentren
FAU Forschungszentrum für Islam und Recht in Europa (FAU EZIRE)

Bohlenplatz 6
91054 Erlangen

Sprechzeiten

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seit 2023 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am FAU EZIRE der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg
2022-2023 Associate professor at College of Islamic Studies, Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha
2015-2022 Assistant professor at College of Islamic Studies, HBKU
2010-2015 Assistant professor in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bern
2015 Habilitation (venia docendi) in Islamic studies, University of Bern
2006-2009 Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of comparative cultural and social anthropology, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder
2003-2007 Postdoctoral fellow at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden
2002 Ph.D., Université de Provence („Imperialisme et industrialisation à Damas, 1908-1939“)
1998-2001 Ph.D. fellowship of French Ministry of Education and Research, Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille I)
1998 M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies, Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille I)

  • Digital Islam
  • History of the Modern Middle East
  • Secularism
  • Anthropology of Islam
  • Political Religion
  • Orientalism and Islamophobia

2021

  • Secularism without Religion: Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France.
    London: Bloomsbury.

2010

  • Les entrepreneurs de Damas. Nation, impérialisme et industrialisation.
    Paris: L’Harmattan.

Im Erscheinen

  • Epistemologies of Islamophobia: A Critical Inventory.
    mit Schirin Amir-Moazami. Bielfeld: transcript.

2025

  • Conceptualizing Islam: Current Approaches.
    mit Paula Schrode und Ricarda Stegmann. London: Routledge.

2014

  • Islamic Movements of Europe.
    mit Rafael Ortega. London: I.B. Tauris.
    2012: spanische Übersetzung Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra

2013

  • Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe: Memory Aesthetics – Art
    mit Sarah Dornhof und Elena Arigita. Bielefeld: Transcript.

2012

  • Los movimientos islámicos transnacionales y la emergencia de un ‘islam europe’.
    mit Rafael Ortega. Barcelona: Ediciones Bellaterra.
  • Special subsection “The Governmentalisation of Islam in Europe”. Current Sociology. 60 (3).
    mit Schirin Amir-Moazami.

2006

  • Special issue “Authorizing Islam in Europe”. Muslim World. 96 (4). 537-737.
    mit Elena Arigita.

2005

  • Special issue “Islam and the Dynamics of European National Identities”. Journal of Contemporary European Studies. 13 (3). 261-335.
    mit Barbara Thériault.

Im Erscheinen

  • Islam as alterity? Towards a Non-Occidentalist History of Europe. In: S. Amir-Moazami und F. Peter (Hg.) Epistemologies of Islamophobia: A Critical Inventory. Bielefeld: transcript.

2025

  • The Discursive Tradition Framework: New Directions for the Study of Islam after ‚The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam‘. In: F. Peter, P. Schrode und R. Stegmann (Hg.) Conceptualizing Islam. Routledge: London. 290-303.

2024

  • Islam in modern France. In: K. Fleet, G. Krämer, D. Matringe, J. Nawas und E. Rowson (Hg.) Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. Leiden: Brill. 28-39.

2018

  • “French Secularism and Islam beyond an orderly vision of politics”. In: S. Amir-Moazami (ed.) Der inspizierte Muslim. Bielefeld: Transcript, 159-184.
  • „Genealogien des Religionsbegriffes und die Grenzen der Religionsfreiheit in Europa“. In: F. Zemmin und M. Corrado (eds.) Festschrift für Reinhard Schulze: Moderne im Islam – Islam in der Moderne. Leiden: Brill, 61-84.

2016

  • “Synthèse: La régulation étatique et la liberté de religion”. In: A. Barras und S. Nicolet (eds.) Réguler le religieux dans les sociétés liberals. Geneva: Labor et Fides, 173-181.

2013

  • “The Ambiguity of Law and Muslim Debates about the Contextualisation of Islam in France”. In: S. Behloul, S. Leuenberger und A. Tunger-Zanetti (eds.) Debating Islam. Negotiating Religion, Europe, and the Self. Bielefeld: transcript, 163-180.
  • “The Visual Government of Islam in France”. In.: F. Peter, S. Dornhof und E. Arigita (eds.) Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe: Memory Aesthetics Art. Bielefeld: transcript, 93-126.
  • “Introduction: Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe”. In: F. Peter, S. Dornhof und E. Arigita (eds.) Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe. Memory Aesthetics Art. Bielefeld: transcript, 9-19.

2012

  • “Muslim ‘Double Talk’ and the Ways of Sharia in France”. In: R. Meijer und E. Bakker (eds.) The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe. London: Hurst, 127-148.

2011

  • “Die Union des Organisations Islamiques de France und die Tradition der Muslimbrüder im Zeitalter der Integrationspolitik”. In: D. Reetz (ed.) Islam in Europa – Religiöses Leben heute. Münster: Waxmann, 145-170.

2010

  • “Welcoming Muslims into the Nation. Tolerance Politics and Integration in Germany”. In: J. Cesari (ed.) Muslims in the West after 9/11. Religion, Politics and Law. London: Routledge, 119-144.

2008

  • “Political Rationalities, Counter-Terrorism and Policies on Islam in the United Kingdom and France”. In: J. Eckert (ed.) The Social Life of Anti-Terrorism Laws. The War on Terror and the Classifications of the ‚Dangerous Other‘. Bielefeld: transcript, 79-108.

2006

  • “Islamic Sermons, Religious Authority and the Individualization of Islam in France”. In: M. Franzmann, C. Gärtner und N. Köck, (eds.) Religiosität in der säkularisierten Welt. Theoretische und empirische Beiträge zur Säkularisierungsdebatte in der Religionssoziologie. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 303-320.

2003

  • “Dismemberment of empire and reconstitution of the regional space: Damascus‘ industries between 1918 and 1946”. In: N. Méouchy und P. Sluglett (eds.) The French and British Mandates in comparative perspective. Leiden: Brill, 415-446.

2002

  • “Les ‚bonnes affaires‘ de la modernisation: les sociétés anonymes et l’industrialisation en Syrie, 1908-1946”. In: N. Méouchy (ed.) France, Syrie et Liban, 1918-1946-Les ambiguïtés et les dynamiques de la relation mandataire. Damascus: IFEAD, 235-257.

2012

  • „Nation, Narration and Islam: Memory and Governmentality in Germany“. Current Sociology. 60 (3). 338-352.

2010

  • „Les fruits de la foi et l’universalité de l’islam: une étude de cas sur l’activisme musulman en France“. Sociologie et sociétés. 42 (1). 95-114.

2006

  • „Leading the Community of the Middle Way: A Study of The Muslim Field in France“. Muslim World. 96 (4). 707-736.
  • „Rationalités du pouvoir et incorporation de l’islam: une comparaison anglo-française“. Sociologie et sociétés. 38 (1). 183-212.
  • „L’Islam de France: une religion civile en quête d’autorités religieuses“. Confluences Méditerranée. 57. 69-81.
  • „Islamism, Islamic Reformism and the Public Stigmatization of Muslims: A Study of Muslim Discourses in France“. Oriente Moderno. n.s. 25 (3). 443-460.

2018

  • “Training of Imams and the Fight against Radicalization”. IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2018. 342-345.

2015

  • “Debating Islam in the Republic after the Paris Attacks”. Online magazine eutopia (9 February).

2007

  • “Ham, Mozart, and Limits to Freedom of Expression” (mit Alexandre Caeiro). ISIM Review. 19. 26-27.

2006/2009

  • “France”. In: John Esposito (ed.) Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2005

  • “Moslims in Europa”. In Dick Douwes et al. (eds) Nederlandse Moslims. Van migrant tot burger. Amsterdam: AUP. 9-17.

2003

  • “Training Imams and the Future of Islam in France”. ISIM Newsletter 13. 20-21.

2019

  • Review essay “Approaching the Study of Secular Power and Islam”. Comparative Islamic Studies. 12 (1). 211-223.

2018

  • Review of “Muslim Brothers in Europe. Roots and Discourse” (Brigitte Maréchal). Studia Islamica. 113. 282-286.
  • Review of “Islam and Secularity: The Future of Europe’s Public Sphere” (Nilüfer Göle). Journal of Islamic Studies. 0:0. 1-4.

2008

  • Review of Thomas Philip and Christoph Schumann: From the Syrian Land to the States of Syria and Lebanon. Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 121/122. 287-290.

2005

  • Review of Thomas Eich: Abu l-Huda as-Sayyadi. Eine Studie zur Instrumentalisierung sufischer Netzwerke und genealogischer Kontroversen im spätosmanischen Reich. Der Islam, 82. 187-193.
  • Review of Jochen Blaschke et al: Muslims in Europe. A Bibliography. Der Islam, 82. 196-198.
  • Review of Huri Islamoğlu: Constructing Modernity. Muslim World Book Review. 25 (3). 47-49.
  • Review of Jens Hanssen et al.: The Empire in the City. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 47 (2). 267-271.

2004

  • Review of Jacob Metzer: The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 44 (4). 600-602.

Forschungsgemeinschaften

  • Swiss National Science Foundation
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

Zeitschriften

  • Acta Politica
  • Anthropological Theory
  • Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions
  • Critical Research on Religion
  • Current Sociology
  • Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • Ethnicities
  • International Journal of Middle East Studies
  • Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • Journal of Islamic Ethics
  • Journal of Muslims in Europe
  • Open Theology
  • Politics & Religion
  • ReOrient
  • Sociologie & Sociétés

Verlage

  • Brill
  • Routledge
  • Springer
  • Berghahn