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  • Müller, Dominik
  • Prof. Dr.
  • Research Region: Malay-speaking Southeast Asia (especially Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore)
Political and Legal Anthropology

 

2022 Chair (W3 Professor) for Cultural and Social Anthropology, Institute of Sociology, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2019 –2022 W2-Professor for Cultural and Social Anthropology, Elite M.A. Program “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures (SDAC)”, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2016 – 2019 Head of Emmy Noether Research Group “The Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department “Law & Anthropology”
2019 Visiting Fellow, Harvard Law School, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World (PLS), Spring Term
2018 Stipendiary Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change (ILSP: LSC), Spring Term
2017 – 2020 (Non-Resident) Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS), National University of Singapore (NUS), affiliation for DFG Emmy Noether Project cooperation
2016 Stipendiary Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS), National University of Singapore (NUS) (August -September)
2012 – 2016 Post-Doctoral Fellow in Anthropology, Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe-University Frankfurt
2015 Visiting Senior Member, University of Oxford, St Antony’s College, Asian Studies Centre
2014 Visiting Fellow, University of Brunei Darussalam, Academy of Brunei Studies
2013 DAAD Post-Doc Fellow, Stanford University, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC)
2009 – 2012 PhD Scholarship, Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe-University Frankfurt
2008 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Ethnologie, Goethe-University Frankfurt

 

Dominik Müller is an anthropologist with broad research interests in legal and political anthropology as well as the anthropology of Islam. His fieldwork has mainly taken place in Southeast Asia (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore). Presently he is broadening his scope towards a Global Anthropology related to law and technology.

 

 

Monograph

  • Müller, D. (2014). Islam, Politics and Youth in Malaysia: The Pop-Islamist Reinvention of PAS. Abingdon: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

 

Books

  • Alidadi, K., Foblets, M. C., & Müller, D. (2022). Redesigning Justice for Plural Societies. London: Routledge. ISBN: 9781003224174. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003224174
  • Müller, D. (2020). Islam, law, and the state. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780191876226.
  • Müller, D. (2014). Islam, politics and youth in Malaysia: the pop-Islamist reinvention of PAS (Contemporary Southeast Asia Series). Abingdon: Routledge (Taylor & Francis).

 

Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Müller, D. (2022). Beyond the Sharia State: Public Celebrations and Everyday State-Making in the Malay Islamic Monarchy of Brunei Darussalam. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1017/als.2022.33
  • Müller, D. (2021). Besprechung: Ulrich Pfister (u.a.) Kulturen des Entscheidens. Narrative – Praktiken – Ressourcen. Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 103(2), 491-493. https://doi.org/10.7788/arku.2021.103.2.491
  • Müller, D. (2020). Rezension: “Schuckmann, Alewtina: Jugend und Gender in Marokko. Eine Ethnographie des urbanen Raums. Bielefeld: transcript, 2019.” Anthropos, 115, 636-637.
  • Müller, D. (2020). Brunei’s Sharia Penal Code Order: Punitive Turn or the Art of Non-Punishment? Journal of Islamic Law, 1. https://doi.org/10.53484/jil.v1.muller
  • Mueller, D. M. (2018). BUREAUCRATIC ISLAM COMPARED: CLASSIFICATORY POWER and STATE-IFIED RELIGIOUS MEANING-MAKING in BRUNEI and SINGAPORE. The Journal of Law and Religion, 33(2), 212-247. https://doi.org/10.1017/jlr.2018.29
  • Mueller, D. M. (2018). Hybrid Pathways to Orthodoxy in Brunei Darussalam: Bureaucratised Exorcism, Scientisation and the Mainstreaming of Deviant-Declared Practices. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 37 (1), 141-183. https://doi.org/10.1177/186810341803700106
  • Mueller, D. M. (2017). Taming the Wild: Aborigines and Racial Knowledge in Colonial Malaya. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 18, 93-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2016.1162125
  • Mueller, D. M. (2017). From Consultancy to Critique: The ‘Success Story’ of Globalized Zakat Management in Malaysia and its Normative Ambiguities. Globalizations, 14, 81-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2016.1200309
  • Mueller, D. M. (2016). Brunei in 2015: Oil revenues down, Sharia on the rise. Asian Survey, 56(1), 162-167. https://doi.org/10.1525/AS.2016.56.1.162
  • Mueller, D. M. (2016). Paradoxical normativities in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia: Islamic law and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration. Asian Survey, 56(3), 415-441. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2016.56.3.415
  • Mueller, D. M. (2015). ISLAMIC POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE IN MALAYSIA: Negotiating normative change between shariah law and electric guitars: COMMENDATION 2014 YOUNG SCHOLARS COMPETITION. Indonesia and the Malay World, 43, 318-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2014.930993
  • Müller, D. (2013). Post-Islamism or Pop-Islamism?: Ethnographic Observations of Muslim Youth Politics in Malaysia. Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde, 59, 261-284. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24672388?seq=1
  • Mueller, D. M. (2010). An internationalist national Islamic struggle? Narratives of ‘brothers abroad’ in the discursive practices of the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS). South East Asia Research, 18, 757-791. https://doi.org/10.5367/sear.2010.0017
  • Müller, D. (2010). Reviewed Work: Piety and Politics: Islamism in Contemporary Malaysia by Joseph Chinyong Liow. South East Asia Research, 18, 616-620. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23751003?seq=1

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Political and Legal Anthropology

 

2022 Chair (W3 Professor) for Cultural and Social Anthropology, Institute of Sociology, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2019 –2022 W2-Professor for Cultural and Social Anthropology, Elite M.A. Program “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures (SDAC)”, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2016 – 2019 Head of Emmy Noether Research Group “The Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department “Law & Anthropology”
2019 Visiting Fellow, Harvard Law School, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World (PLS), Spring Term
2018 Stipendiary Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change (ILSP: LSC), Spring Term
2017 – 2020 (Non-Resident) Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS), National University of Singapore (NUS), affiliation for DFG Emmy Noether Project cooperation
2016 Stipendiary Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS), National University of Singapore (NUS) (August -September)
2012 – 2016 Post-Doctoral Fellow in Anthropology, Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe-University Frankfurt
2015 Visiting Senior Member, University of Oxford, St Antony’s College, Asian Studies Centre
2014 Visiting Fellow, University of Brunei Darussalam, Academy of Brunei Studies
2013 DAAD Post-Doc Fellow, Stanford University, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC)
2009 – 2012 PhD Scholarship, Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe-University Frankfurt
2008 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Ethnologie, Goethe-University Frankfurt

 

Dominik Müller is an anthropologist with broad research interests in legal and political anthropology as well as the anthropology of Islam. His fieldwork has mainly taken place in Southeast Asia (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore). Presently he is broadening his scope towards a Global Anthropology related to law and technology.

 

 

Monograph

  • Müller, D. (2014). Islam, Politics and Youth in Malaysia: The Pop-Islamist Reinvention of PAS. Abingdon: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

 

Books

  • Alidadi, K., Foblets, M. C., & Müller, D. (2022). Redesigning Justice for Plural Societies. London: Routledge. ISBN: 9781003224174. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003224174
  • Müller, D. (2020). Islam, law, and the state. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780191876226.
  • Müller, D. (2014). Islam, politics and youth in Malaysia: the pop-Islamist reinvention of PAS (Contemporary Southeast Asia Series). Abingdon: Routledge (Taylor & Francis).

 

Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Müller, D. (2022). Beyond the Sharia State: Public Celebrations and Everyday State-Making in the Malay Islamic Monarchy of Brunei Darussalam. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1017/als.2022.33
  • Müller, D. (2021). Besprechung: Ulrich Pfister (u.a.) Kulturen des Entscheidens. Narrative – Praktiken – Ressourcen. Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 103(2), 491-493. https://doi.org/10.7788/arku.2021.103.2.491
  • Müller, D. (2020). Rezension: “Schuckmann, Alewtina: Jugend und Gender in Marokko. Eine Ethnographie des urbanen Raums. Bielefeld: transcript, 2019.” Anthropos, 115, 636-637.
  • Müller, D. (2020). Brunei’s Sharia Penal Code Order: Punitive Turn or the Art of Non-Punishment? Journal of Islamic Law, 1. https://doi.org/10.53484/jil.v1.muller
  • Mueller, D. M. (2018). BUREAUCRATIC ISLAM COMPARED: CLASSIFICATORY POWER and STATE-IFIED RELIGIOUS MEANING-MAKING in BRUNEI and SINGAPORE. The Journal of Law and Religion, 33(2), 212-247. https://doi.org/10.1017/jlr.2018.29
  • Mueller, D. M. (2018). Hybrid Pathways to Orthodoxy in Brunei Darussalam: Bureaucratised Exorcism, Scientisation and the Mainstreaming of Deviant-Declared Practices. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 37 (1), 141-183. https://doi.org/10.1177/186810341803700106
  • Mueller, D. M. (2017). Taming the Wild: Aborigines and Racial Knowledge in Colonial Malaya. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 18, 93-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2016.1162125
  • Mueller, D. M. (2017). From Consultancy to Critique: The ‘Success Story’ of Globalized Zakat Management in Malaysia and its Normative Ambiguities. Globalizations, 14, 81-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2016.1200309
  • Mueller, D. M. (2016). Brunei in 2015: Oil revenues down, Sharia on the rise. Asian Survey, 56(1), 162-167. https://doi.org/10.1525/AS.2016.56.1.162
  • Mueller, D. M. (2016). Paradoxical normativities in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia: Islamic law and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration. Asian Survey, 56(3), 415-441. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2016.56.3.415
  • Mueller, D. M. (2015). ISLAMIC POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE IN MALAYSIA: Negotiating normative change between shariah law and electric guitars: COMMENDATION 2014 YOUNG SCHOLARS COMPETITION. Indonesia and the Malay World, 43, 318-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2014.930993
  • Müller, D. (2013). Post-Islamism or Pop-Islamism?: Ethnographic Observations of Muslim Youth Politics in Malaysia. Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde, 59, 261-284. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24672388?seq=1
  • Mueller, D. M. (2010). An internationalist national Islamic struggle? Narratives of ‘brothers abroad’ in the discursive practices of the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS). South East Asia Research, 18, 757-791. https://doi.org/10.5367/sear.2010.0017
  • Müller, D. (2010). Reviewed Work: Piety and Politics: Islamism in Contemporary Malaysia by Joseph Chinyong Liow. South East Asia Research, 18, 616-620. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23751003?seq=1

More at: https://www.soziologie.phil.fau.de/team/mueller/#collapse_1

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