Jürgen Wasim Frembgen is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He has taught Anthropology and Islamic Studies at various universities in Germany and Austria. Since 1981 he has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork in Pakistan on an annual basis--including working in the Karakoram, Indus Kohistan, Punjab, and Sindh. In addition, he has been a visiting professor at the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad (National Institute of Pakistan Studies), National College of Arts in Lahore, and Ohio State University. He recently retired from his position as senior curator at the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich. Frembgen has more than 130 English and German language publications to his credit and has published multiple books with OUP, Pakistan. He has written extensively on the cultures of the Eastern Muslim world between Iran and India, focusing particularly on Pakistan.