The cultural, social, and legal-political development of Islam and Muslims in late imperial and modern China, ethnoreligious minority making, Chinese-Islamic intellectual history, and Chinese Sufism.

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.”

The cultural, social, and legal-political development of Islam and Muslims in late imperial and modern China, ethnoreligious minority making, Chinese-Islamic intellectual history, and Chinese Sufism.

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.”

Research Project at CAS-E