07.2023:  Research Associate at the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe,  FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

07.2023-06.2024: Research Assistant, FAU Senior Professor of Sinology

2020-2023: Research Fellow, International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

2021: Double-Ph.D. in Religious Studies and Islamic Religious Studies at the University of Groningen and the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

2014-2015: Lecturer at Xinjiang Normal University, China

2012-2015: Lecturer at Xinjiang University, China

2012: MA. in Law at Xinjiang University, China

2012: MA. in Political Science at EPI and CIFE Berlin, Germany

Gang Li studied Jurisprudence and Political Science in China and Germany. He did a double-Ph.D. with the University of Groningen and the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, where his research focused on the relations between Islamic law and Chinese state law in imperial and modern China. His work explored how these two normative systems have shaped the identities of Chinese Hui Muslims. With over a decade of teaching experience in China and Europe, Gang Li has cultivated a deep expertise in his field. Following his PhD, he joined the Internationalen Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung at FAU and the Erlanger Zentrum für Islam und Recht in Europa (EZIRE). He has also worked as a research assistant at the FAU Senior Professor of Sinology and coordinated the Brill series “Prognostication in History.”

Monographies and Editorships

• Negotiations of the Hui Muslims’ Identity Formation: A Socio-Legal Investigation into the Tensions between the Sharīʿa and the Chinese Legal Systems (in preparation)
• Local Virtual Community and Social Integration of Muslim Migrants: Ethnographical Studies on China (together with Gui Rong, in preparation)

Journal Articles

• Xue Bingyao 薛炳堯 and Li Gang 李剛. 2005. “Dui weihu shaoshu minzu renquan yu fazhi hexie de sikao 對維護少數民族人權與法治和諧的思考 [On minority rights, rule of law and a harmonious society].” Xibei minzu daxue xuaobao 西北民族大學學報, no. 6: 97–123.
• Gong Haiping 鞏海平and Li Gang 李剛. 2005. “Dui qiangzhi weixie funü zui de sikao 對強制猥褻婦女罪的思考 [On indecent assault].” Gansu zhengfa xueyuan xuebao 甘肅政法學院學報, no. 77: 48–51.
• Li Gang 李剛. 2012. “Lisiben tiaoyue hou de Oumeng shaoshuren quanli 里斯本條約後的歐盟少數人權利 [EU’s minority rights protection in post-Lisbon treaty].” Neimenggu daxue xuebao, zengkan 内蒙古大學學報增刊 44: 58–65.
• Li, Gang. 2022. “Reasoning the Sharīʿa and Constructing a Proper Muslim Woman: Reflections on the Issue of Chinese Muslim Women’s Haircut in Republican China.” Journal of Chinese Religions 50, no. 2 (November 2022): 185–231.

Aufsätze in Sammelbänden

• Li, Gang. 2020. “Anti-Muslim Attacks.” In Religious Violence Today: Faith and Conflict in the Modern World, edited by Michael Jerryson, 142–145. California: Santa Barbara.
• Li, Gang. 2021. “The Modernization of Islamic Education in China: The Case of the Hui Muslims.” In Bildungskulturen im Islam: Islamische Theologie lehren und lernen, edited by Abbas Poya, Benjamin Weineck, and Farid Suleiman, 217–258. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Reviews

• Li, Gang. 2019. Book Review: Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Scripture, and Language in the Han Kitab. By Kristan Petersen, Oxford University Press. Reading Religion, American Academy of Religion. https://readingreligion.org/9780190634346/interpreting-islam-in-china

Conference Contributions

• Presentation at the Berlin/Hamburg/Leipzig Joint Research Colloquium: Religions in China, “Biographies of the Number of Muslim Population in Modern China: Cases Studies on the Muslim Nation,” organized by the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Leipzig, funded by the Journal of Chinese Religions. Wittenberg, July 1, 2022.
• Presentation at the 16th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association, “Early Muslims as the Huawairen 化外人in the Tang Code: Inclusiveness and Exclusiveness of Imperial Chinese Legal Culture.” University of Copenhagen, September 21–23, 2022.