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Dr. Majid Daneshgar

University of Otago
Religion and Islamic Studies

Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
September 2017 – August 2018

Last Update: 31.08.2018

Curriculum Vitae

Majid Daneshgar studied Religion with particular reference to the connection between Islamic intellectual and exegetical progress in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is also interested in Malay-Indonesian Islamic literature and exegetical works. He completed his PhD at the University of Malaya where he also worked as Assistant Professor of Religion and Islamic Studies. Later on, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he was nominated for the Most Inclusive Teacher Award in 2015. Majid also received the Auckland Library Heritage Trust Scholarship in 2017 by which he could compile the Catalogue of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Materials in New Zealand. This project will be published in the near future.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project