Gabriele Marranci is the Director of the Study Contemporary Muslim LIves Research Hub withinthe Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Australia. He is also an Honorary Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, Cardiff University and was until recently Associate Professor within the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.
Dr Marranci is an anthropologist by training working on youth, religion and cosmopolitan society and multiculturalism with a specialisation in Muslim societies. His main research interests concern youth identity, religion,extremism, political Islam and secularisation processes. Dr Marranci has widely published on these topics in peer-reviewed journals and in book chapters.He is the author of four monographs, Jihad beyond Islam (2006, London, NewYork: Berg), The Anthropology of Islam, (2008, London, New York: Berg),Understanding Muslim Identity, Rethinking Fundamentalism (2009, London,New York: Palgrave Macmillan) and Faith, Ideology and Fear: MuslimIdentities Within and Beyond Prisons (2009, London: Continuum Books).He is the founding editor of Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of MuslimLife, published by the international publisher Springer.
