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Daneshgar, Majid

Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) Associate Professor

Last Updated :2026/05/01

Basic Information

Faculty

Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences (ILAS)

Email Address

Email Address
daneshgar.majid.5wkyoto-u.ac.jp

Academic Degree

09 Aug. 2010
M.S.（University of Qom ）

24 Oct. 2013
Ph.D.（University of Malaya）

Academic Resume (Graduate Schools)

Erfurt University, Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Muslims in the West Summer school, Completed

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

University of Quranic Sciences, Faculty of Quranic Sciences, 卒業

Research History

From 2014, To 2017
Lecturer, University of Otago

From 2017
Auckland Library, Auckland Library Sir George Grey's Scholar

From 2022
University of Cambridge

From 2018
University of Freiburg

From Sep. 2017
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)

ID,URL

J-Global ID
202401003541699877

researchmap URL

https://researchmap.jp/CSEAS

Last Updated :2026/05/01

Research

Research Interests

Cultural Studies

Language and Culture

Method and Theory in the Study of Religion

Manuscript Studies

Orientalism

Religion and Science

Islamic Studies

Persianate-Malay

Malay-Indonesian World

Malay Langauge

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences, History - General, Islamic Studies

Humanities & social sciences, Literature - General, orientalism

Humanities & social sciences, History - Asia/Africa

Humanities & social sciences, History of thought, Muslim and Oriental Intellectual Thoughts

Humanities & social sciences, Religious studies

Papers

Persians of Thailand: Three Observations
Majid Daneshgar
SEALG Newsletter, Dec. 2025, Lead author, Corresponding author

Beauty and Majesty: Notes on newly discovered 15th-century Arabic and Persian inscriptions from Tanah Luas, North Aceh, Sumatra
R. Michael Feener; Majid Daneshgar; Masykur Syafruddin
Indonesia and the Malay World, 02 Sep. 2025, Peer-reviewed

Reading Ismāʿīlī Islam in Aceh: Shāh Shams Sabziwārī’s Poems Copied in the 15th-Century Indonesia
Majid Daneshgar
DABIR, 17 Dec. 2025, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

An Unknown Malay-Javanese Booklet Belonging to Thomas Erpenius: Early Days of the Shaṭṭārī Prayers in Indonesia
Majid Daneshgar
DABIR, 17 Dec. 2025, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

The Library of Andrew Rippin: The Rise of a Qurʾānic Philologist
Majid Daneshgar
Asian Review, Dec. 2025, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

A Persian Shiʿi anthology circulating in Patna, Dhaka and Siam in the seventeenth century: A lesser-known ship of Persians to Southeast Asia
Majid Daneshgar
Iran and Persianate Culture in the Indian Ocean World, 2025, Peer-reviewed, Invited, Lead author, Corresponding author

"Reinhard, A. Kevin: Lived Islam: Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan Tradition"
Majid Daneshgar
ASIA (DeGruyter), 2024, Invited, Lead author

A Persian Treatise on the Genealogy of Shīʿa Imāms from Jerusalem
Majid Daneshgar
DABIR: Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review, Feb. 2024, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Anthologies of Persian Poetry Inscribed in Indonesia: A Handlist of Rare Manuscripts
Majid Daneshgar
DABIR: Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review, Feb. 2024, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Gog and Magog in Malay-Indonesian Islamic Exegetical Works
Majid Daneshgar
Gog and Magog: Contributions toward a World History of an Apocalyptic Motif, 18 Dec. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī
Majid Daneshgar
Handbook of Qurʾānic Hermeneutics, 04 Dec. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Iskandarānī
Majid Daneshgar
Handbook of Qurʾānic Hermeneutics, 04 Dec. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

THE QURʾĀN AND SCIENCE, PART III: MAKERS OF THE SCIENTIFIC MIRACULOUSNESS
Majid Daneshgar
Zygon® Journal of Religion and Science, 17 Oct. 2023, Peer-reviewed
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THE QURʾĀN AND SCIENCE, PART II: SCIENTIFIC INTERPRETATIONS FROM NORTH AFRICA TO CHINA, BENGAL, AND THE MALAY‐INDONESIAN WORLD
Majid Daneshgar
Zygon® Journal of Religion and Science, 16 Oct. 2023
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THE QURʾĀN AND SCIENCE, PART I: THE PREMODERN ERA
Majid Daneshgar
Zygon® Journal of Religion and Science, 16 Oct. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author
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Persianate Fiqh in Indonesia: Majmuʿih-yi Khani as a Rare Legal Manuscript in a Cosmopolitan Context
Majid Daneshgar
International Journal of Islam in Asia (Brill), 14 Mar. 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

A 15th-Century Persian Inscription from Bireuen, Aceh: An Early ‘Flash’ of Sufism before Fanṣūrī in Southeast Asia
Majid Daneshgar; Gregorius Dwi Kuswanta; Masykur Syafruddin; R. Michael Feener
Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies: A Feschrift in Honor of Peter G. Riddell, 05 Dec. 2022, Lead author, Corresponding author
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Peter G. Riddell’s Contribution to Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies
Majid Daneshgar; Ervan Nurtawab
Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies: A Festschrift in Honor of Peter G. Riddell, 05 Dec. 2022, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

An Old Malay Manuscript of Tafsīr and Tajwīd: Formative Islamic Sciences in Nusantara
Majid Daneshgar
Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies: A Festschrift in Honor of Peter G. Riddell, 05 Dec. 2022, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Inscribing Persian in the Arabic Cosmopolis: Case Study of Qur’ānic Exegesis from Khorasan
Majid Daneshgar; Sajjad Rizvi
Australian Journal of Islamic Studies, 07 May 2022, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Persianate Aspects of the Malay-Indonesian World: Some Rare Manuscripts in the Leiden University Library
Majid Daneshgar
DABIR (Brill), 30 Nov. 2021, Lead author, Corresponding author

An Egyptian Medical Officer and Qurʾān Commentator in Ottoman Syria: Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Iskandarānī and His Tafāsīr in the 19th Century
Majid Daneshgar
Oriente Moderno, 06 Oct. 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

The Prophet Shaving: Persians and the Origin of the Malay Hikayat Nabi Bercukur
Majid Daneshgar
Der Islam, 01 Oct. 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

A Very Old Malay Islamic manuscript: Carbon dating and further analysis of a Persian-Malay anthology
Majid Daneshgar
Indonesia and the Malay World, 30 Sep. 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

"Malay Court Religion, Culture and Language: Interpreting the Qurʾān in 17th Century Aceh" by Peter G. Riddell
Majid Daneshgar
Der Islam, 30 Mar. 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Indonesian manuscripts in Iran
Majid Daneshgar
Indonesia and the Malay World, 02 Jan. 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

An Old Persian-Malay Anthology of Poems from Aceh
Majid Daneshgar
DABIR (Brill), 30 Nov. 2020, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Translation of Persian and Malay Literary Works in Malaysia and Iran
Majid Daneshgar
DABIR (Brill), 30 Nov. 2020, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

I Want to Become an Orientalist Not a Colonizer or a “De-Colonizer”
Majid Daneshgar
Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (Brill), 29 Oct. 2020, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

THE FUTURE OF ISLAM AND SCIENCE: PHILOSOPHICAL GROUNDS
Majid Daneshgar
Zygon®, 03 Oct. 2020, Lead author, Corresponding author

UNINTERRUPTED CENSORED DARWIN: FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TO THE MALAY‐INDONESIAN WORLD
Majid Daneshgar
Zygon® Journal of Religion and Science, 03 Oct. 2020, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

The Images of the Shah and Khomeini in Indonesia and Malaysia
Majid Daneshgar
Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, 02 Apr. 2020, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Pieter J. Veth on the Tabut Feast: Judaic and Persian-Shi'i Traces of a Tradition in Java
Majid Daneshgar
Berita, 2020

"The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity" by Ahmed Ragab
Majid Daneshgar
Der Islam, 01 Oct. 2019, Lead author, Corresponding author

How Intellectuals Censor the Intellect: (Mis-)Representation of Traditional History and its Consequences
Majid Daneshgar
The Journal of Interrupted Studies (Brill), 14 Jun. 2019, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Mardum-shinasi va Jami’a-shinasi Yazd (‘Anthropology and Sociology of the city of Yazd’)
Majid Daneshgar
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 18 Apr. 2019, Invited, Lead author, Corresponding author

Hamka's Great Story A Master Writer's Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia By: James R. Rush (Review)
Majid Daneshgar
Reading Religion, 2019, Lead author, Corresponding author

Bucaille, Maurice
Majid Daneshgar
Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān (Brill), 2019, Lead author, Corresponding author

(New Evidence on the Origin of the Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah) Nouvelles preuves sur l’origine de l’Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah
Majid Daneshgar
Archipel, 15 Nov. 2018, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Qur'anic Exegesis Key Paradigms and Concepts By: Massimo Campanini (Review)
Majid Daneshgar
Reading Religion, 2018, Lead author, Corresponding author

Sword
Majid Daneshgar
Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān (Brill), 2018, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

"Zayd" by David S. Powers
Majid Daneshgar
Der Islam, 30 Jan. 2017, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

"Shi'ism in South East Asia: 'Alid Piety and Sectarian Constructions" ed. by Chiara Formichi and R. Michael Feener
Majid Daneshgar
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 2017, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Publications by Andrew Rippin
Majid Daneshgra; Walid A. Saleh
Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin, 01 Jan. 2017, Peer-reviewed

An Introduction to Islamic Studies Today
Majid Daneshgar-Walid; A. Saleh
Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin, 01 Jan. 2017, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Western Non-Muslim Qurʾanic Studies in Muslim Academic Contexts: On Rippin’s Works from the Middle East to the Malay-Indonesian World
Majid Daneshgar
Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin, 01 Jan. 2017, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī
Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān (Brill), 2017, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Perceptions of Color in Islamic Texts and Traditions with Special Reference to Shīʿī Sources
Majid Daneshgar
Essays in Global Color History, 31 Dec. 2016, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Dhu l-Qarnayn in Modern Malay Commentaries and Other Literature on Qur'anic Themes
Majid Daneshgar
The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World: Context and Interpretation, 2016, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

The Study of Qur'an Interpretation in the Malay-Indonesian World: A Select Bibliography
Majid Daneshgar
The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World: Context and Interpretation, 2016, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Introduction: The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World
Majid Daneshgar; Peter G. Riddell; Andrew Rippin
The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World: Context and Interpretation, 2016, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Ashura in the Malay-Indonesian World: The Ten Days of Muḥarram in Sumatra as Depicted by Nineteenth-Century Dutch Scholars
Majid Daneshgar; Faisal Ahmad Shah; Arnold Yasin Mol
Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies, Sep. 2015, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

The divinatory role of the Qurʾan in the Malay World
Majid Daneshgar
Indonesia and the Malay World, 07 Aug. 2015, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

An Approach to Science in the Qurʾān: Re-examination of Ṭanṭāwī Ǧawharī’s Exegesis
Majid Daneshgar
Oriente Moderno, 07 Aug. 2015, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Benarkah Iskandar Bukan Zulkarnain: Membongkar Kewujudan dan Rahsia Sebenar Pejuang Agung (Was Alexander really not Dhu al-Qarnayn? Uncovering the Identity and True Secret of a Great Warrior) by Afareez Abd Razak al-Hafiz (Review)
Majid Daneshgar
Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies, Jun. 2015, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Sons of Ishmael: Muslims through European Eyes in the Middle Ages by John V. Tolan (Review)
Majid Daneshgar
Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies, Jun. 2015, Peer-reviewed

"Rāzī: Master of Quranic Interpretation and Theological Reasoning," by Tariq Jaffer
Majid Daneshgar
2015, Lead author, Corresponding author

Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī (1862–1940) was an Egyptian religious and social thinker
Majid Daneshgar
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection, 2015, Peer-reviewed

The Early History of Ismaili Jurisprudence: Law under the Fatimids edited and translated by Agostino Cilardo (review)
Majid Daneshgar
Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies, Dec. 2014, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

"Apocalypse in Islam," by Jean-Pierre Filiu
Majid Daneshgar
Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception, 01 Jul. 2014, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

The Study of Persian Shi‘ism in the Malay-Indonesian world: A Review of Literature from the Nineteenth Century onwards
Majid Daneshgar
Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies, Mar. 2014, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Shi‘ite-perso views towards abusing wine and opium: is it addiction or culture?
Majid Daneshgar
Journal of religious culture, 2014, Lead author, Corresponding author

Tantawi : Western -Eastern Discoveries Embedded in Islam
Majid Daneshgar
Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 2014, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

BEHIND THE SCENES: A REVIEW OF WESTERN FIGURES’ SUPPORTIVE COMMENTS REGARDING THE QUR’AN
Majid Daneshgar
AL-BAYAN JOURNAL, 01 Nov. 2013, Peer-reviewed

A Study on the Notions of ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib in Malay Popular Culture
Majid Daneshgar
Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies, Sep. 2013, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

A Chinese life of Islam: the search for identity (Review)
Majid Daneshgar
Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, Jan. 2013, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Editorial: Qur’ān, Orientalists and Western scholars
Majid Daneshgar
al-Bayan Journal of Qur'an and Hadith (Brill), 15 Dec. 2012, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Shi‘i interpretations of Islam: three treatises on theology and eschatology, by Badakhshani (Review)
Majid Daneshgar
Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, Oct. 2012, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī: The Proofs of Prophecy: A Parallel English-Arabic Text (review)
Majid Daneshgar
Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies, Sep. 2012, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

Misc.

An Indian Muslim Tombstone Bought in Stuttgart and its Connection with Indonesian Inscriptions
Majid Daneshgar
Southeast Asia Library Group (SEALG), Feb. 2026, Lead author

Southeast Asian Studies Today and Tomorrow: Yoneo Ishii’s Perspective
Majid Daneshgar
Southeast Asia Library Group (SEALG), Dec. 2025, Lead author, Corresponding author

A Javanese Text Belonging to Persianists in England & on a “Malay Note” in Tafsīr al-Kashshāf
Majid Daneshgar
Southeast Asia Library Group (SEALG), Oct. 2025, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

Professor Yoneo Ishii Library Collection (PartII): A Cardboard Scroll Tube Containing Muslim and non-
Majid Daneshgar
CSEAS Newsletter, Feb. 2025, Lead author

Professor Yoneo Ishii Library Collection: Studying Asian and Muslim Materials of a Southeast Asianist (PartI)
Majid Daneshgar
CSEAS Newsletter, Jan. 2025, Lead author, Corresponding author

The Iranian Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Old Manuscript, New Perspectives
Majid Daneshgar
Apr. 2024, Lead author, Corresponding author

A Remnant from the Ruined City of Akhsikath, Uzbekistan: Another Rare Persianate Manuscript Belonging to Erpenius
Majid Daneshgar
Cambridge University Special Collections, Mar. 2024, Lead author, Corresponding author

The Blue Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah: A Rare Copy of a Malay Folk Story at Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Majid Daneshgar
Cambridge University Library Special Collections, Feb. 2024, Lead author, Corresponding author

Erpenius’ ‘Coptic’ manuscript at Cambridge University Library
Majid Daneshgar
Cambridge University Library Special Collections, 2024, Lead author, Corresponding author

Erpenius’s Royal Manuscript of a Persian Ruler at Cambridge University Library
Majid Daneshgar
Cambridge University Library Special Collections, 2023, Lead author, Corresponding author

The First Islamic Material at Cambridge University Library: Unearthing Bedwell’s Forgotten Manuscript
Majid Daneshgar
Cambridge University Library Special Collections, 2023, Lead author, Corresponding author

Translating Persian Tafsir in Aceh: The Oldest Malay “Story of Joseph” at Cambridge University Library
Majid Daneshgar
Cambridge University Library Special Collections, 2023, Lead author, Corresponding author

The Oldest Javanese Islamic Text at Cambridge University Library
Majid Daneshgar; Edwin P. Wieringa
Cambridge University Library Special Collections, 2023, Lead author, Corresponding author

Erpenius’s Indian Manuscripts: Old Telugu Texts at Cambridge University Library
Majid Daneshgar
Cambridge University Library Special Collections, 2023, Lead author, Corresponding author

A newly-discovered Malay manuscript in Erpenius’ library: An old booklet of supplication
Majid Daneshgar
Cambridge University Library Special Collections, 2023, Lead author, Corresponding author

Secrets of the Erpenius copy of the Killing Story of Husain in Karbala
Majid Daneshgar
Cambridge University Library Special Collections, 2023, Lead author, Corresponding author

An Early “Mirror for Princes” in Southeast Asia: The First Known Malay Translation of Akhlaq-e Mohseni
Majid Daneshgar
Cambridge University Special Collections, 2022, Lead author, Corresponding author

Censored Manuscripts, Censored Intellects Can We Trust the Past?
Majid Daneshgar
Mizan, 2018

A Sword That Becomes a Word (Part 2) The Supplication to ʿAlī in a Malay Manuscript
Majid Daneshgar
Mizan, 2017, Lead author, Corresponding author

A Sword That Becomes a Word (Part 1) Supplication to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib and Dhū’l-Faqār
Majid Daneshgar
2017, Lead author, Corresponding author

A ‘Baptized’ Qurʾān? On a Unique Illuminated Manuscript at the University of Otago
Majid Daneshgar
Mizan, 2017, Lead author, Corresponding author

Presentations

Discussing "Reconfiguring literary traditions with Dr Claire Gallien"
Discussan; Majid Daneshgar; Presenter: Claire Gallien
BOOK LUNCH SEMINAR, 29 May 2025, Invited

Southeast Asian Materials in Three Book Cabinets at Cambridge University Library
The South Asian Studies Center, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, 26 Aug. 2025, Invited

New Evidence about the History of Siam in the 17th-Century: New People, New Life and New Culture
Majid Daneshgar
The South Asian Studies Center, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, 26 Aug. 2025, Invited

Malay Persianate Poetic Anthologies and the Rise of an Inclusive Archipelago
Majid Daneshgar
Global Mediterranean Workshop “Persianate Culture in Southeast Asia”, 05 Mar. 2025, Invited

Persian Shīʿī Missionaries and Scholars in 17th-Century Southeast Asia: New Evidence
Majid Daneshgar
IRAN AND PERSIANATE CULTURE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD, 07 Sep. 2022, Invited

Erpenius' Library: The Excellence of a Dutch Arabist
Majid Daneshgar
Endless Stories Exhibition, Cambridge University, 15 Oct. 2024, Invited

Opening Speech (Endless Stories Exhibition: Manuscripts, Knowledge and Translation in the 17th Century)
Majid Daneshgar
Endless Stories Exhibition Opening Ceremony (Cambridge University Library), 26 Sep. 2024, Invited

Asia in a Cabinet: History, Items and Influence of Scott Cabinet
Majid Daneshgar
ScottCabinet StudyDay (Cambridge University Library), 18 Sep. 2024

Western non-Muslim Qur’anic Studies in Muslim Academic Contexts
Majid Daneshgar
Seminar in honour of Andrew Rippin, Nov. 2016, Invited

Europeans and Science in Modern Qur’anic Commentaries
Majid Daneshgar
Islam and Human Dignity International Conference (Australia), Jul. 2016, Invited

A Well-known Exegete, An Obscure Social Thinker: Tantawi Jawhari
Majid Daneshgar
International Qur’anic Studies Association Conference (Indonesia), Aug. 2015

The Qur’an and Its Exegesis in the Malay-Indonesian World
Majid Daneshgar
International Qur’an Seminar (Indonesia), Aug. 2015, Invited

Qur’anic Exegetical Works in the Malay-Indonesian World
Majid Daneshgar
International Qur’an Exhibition, Jun. 2015

Islam and Modern World
Majid Daneshgar
The University of the Third Age, Wakatipu, New Zealand, May 2015, Invited

The Qur’an, Hadith and Orientalism
Majid Daneshgar
Undergraduates Seminar, APIUM, Mar. 2014, Invited

Studying Islam in the Muslim Academy: Can IndonesiaOffer a New Model for Academic Study of Islam?
Majid Daneshgar
THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCE OF USHULUDDIN AND ISLAMIC THOUGHT, 07 Nov. 2023, Invited

Wallace in the Muslim World
Majid Daneshgar
Wallace in the Muslim World: Translating “The Malay Archipelago” from the Middle East to Southeast Asia, Nov. 2023

The Endless Story of an Old Oriental Collection at Cambridge University Library
Majid Daneshgar
Cambridge University Library Event, 08 Jun. 2023

Reconstructing The Thomas Erpenius' Library
Majid Daneshgar
Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 03 May 2023, Invited

Inscribing Persian in the Arabic Cosmopolis
Majid Daneshgar; S. Rizvi
American Academy of Religion, Nov. 2022

Engine Behind Tafsir Production in the Malay-Indonesian World at the Turn of the 20th Century
Majid Daneshgar
International Quranic Studies Association (IQSA, Nov. 2022, Invited

Persianate-Malay materials from Banten, Indonesia Kept at Leiden University Library
Majid Daneshgar
Scaliger Instittue Lecture Series, Sep. 2022, Invited

Persianate Aspects of the Malay-Indonesian World: Rare Manuscripts
Majid Daneshgar
British Institute for Persian Studies Lecture Series, May 2022, Invited

Persian Shi‘ism in Malay-Indonesian Qur’anic Commentaries
Majid Daneshgar
Freiburg Conversations on Tafsir and Transregional Islamic Networks, Jul. 2020

Gog and Magog in the Malay-Indonesian Qur’an Commentaries
Majid Daneshgar
Erlangen Politics- History – Eschatology. Functional, Inter(con)textual, Structural, and Comparative Approaches to Gog and Magog, Sep. 2019, Invited

Political Theology
Majid Daneshgar
Political Theology. Disciplined;Undisciplined. Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Jul. 2019, Invited

The Study of Islam and the Qur’an after the Orientalism
Majid Daneshgar
DAVO congress 2018, Frankfurter Forschungszentrum Globaler Islam, Oct. 2018

An Overlooked Codex: On Rare Illuminated Manuscripts of the Qur’an Produced under Colonialism
Majid Daneshgar
Jul. 2018

"Father of Ignorance”: How and Why Marginal Figures within Islam Remain Marginal
Majid Daneshgar
Ignorance Series Lunch Lecture, Freiburg University College and Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Jun. 2018, Invited

How Intellectuals Censor the Intellect: (mis-)representation of Traditional History and Its Consequences
Humanities and Social Sciences Colloquium, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Jan. 2018, Invited

Books and Other Publications

Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature: Text, Translation and Commentary of the Durr al-Majalis
MAJID DANESHGAR, Single work, sole author, commentator and translator
Edinburgh University Press, May 2025
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Reconstructing Erpenius’ Library: The First Collection of Oriental Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library
Majid Daneshgar, Single work, Author
Brill, Dec. 2024
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An Early Javanese Manuscript on Islamic Law (fiqh) MS Gg.5.22 at Cambridge University Library
Yayasan Sastra Lestari, Majid Daneshgar, Edwin Wieringa, Joint editor
Yayasan Sastra Lestari, 2024

A Handlist of Nine Newly Discovered Middle Eastern and Islamic Materials, Christ's College, University of Cambridge
Majid Daneshgar, Single work
Cambridge University Libraries, 2023

Malay-Indonesian Islamic studies : a Festschrift in honor of Peter G. Riddell
Majid Daneshgar, Ervan Nurtawab, Joint editor
Brill, 2023
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Deconstructing Islamic studies
Majid Daneshgar and Aaron W. Hughes, Joint editor
Ilex Foundation,Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University,Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2020
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Studying the Qur'an in the Muslim Academy
Majid Daneshgar, Single work
Oxford University Press, 2020
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Middle Eastern and Islamic Manuscripts, The National Library of New Zealand, Wellington
Majid Daneshgar; Anthony Tedeschi, Joint work
The National Library of New Zealand, 2019

Middle Eastern and Islamic Manuscripts: Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, New Zealand
Single work
Auckland Libraries, 2018

Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī and the Qurʾān : tafsīr and social concerns in the twentieth century
Majid Daneshgar, Single work
Routledge, 2018
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Middle Eastern and Islamic Materials in Special Collections University of Otago
Majid Daneshgar; Donald Kerr, Joint work
Otago University Library Special Collections, 2017

Islamic studies today : essays in honor of Andrew Rippin
Majid Daneshgar and Walid A. Saleh, Joint work
Brill, 2017
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The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World: Context and Interpretation
Majid Daneshgar, Peter G. Riddell, Andrew Rippin, Joint editor
Routledge, 2016
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Awards

24 Jun. 2022
Best Publication Award 2022（University of Freiburg Germany）

01 Sep. 2017
Marie Curie Award（European Union and Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies）

30 Aug. 2009
Fulbright of the German Academic Exchange Service（University of Erfurt）

01 Oct. 2022
Munby AWARD in Bibliography and the History of Book（University of Cambridge）

01 Sep. 2022
Drewes AWARD in Malay-Indonesian Studies（University of Leiden, the Netherland）

25 Sep. 2015
The Most Inclusive Teacher Award-Nomination（University of Otago, New Zealand）

Media Coverage

Some of the world’s rarest manuscripts at Cambridge University Library
Cambridge Radio, Jan. 2025, Media report

'Rare' Islamic manuscripts on display for first time
BBC, UK, Sep. 2024, Internet

Last Updated :2026/05/01

Education

Teaching subject(s)

From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026
Introduction to World Religions-E2
H277, Spring, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2

From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026
Theories of Religion in the Social Sciences-E2
H159, Spring, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2

From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026
Introduction to Asian Societies-E2
H280, Fall, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2

From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026
Religion in Contemporary Society-E2
H279, Fall, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2

From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025
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