Dietrich Jung is Professor and Head of the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark. He holds a MA in Political Science and Islamic Studies, as well as a Ph.D. from University of Hamburg, Germany. He was a fellow at the University of Victoria, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the International Islamic University Malaysia, the National University of Singapore, the University of Leipzig and the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich. His most recent books are Muslim History and Social Theory: A Global Sociology of Modernity, Palgrave (2017), Muslim Subjectivities in Global Modernity. Islamic Traditions and the Construction of Modern Muslim Identities, edited with Kirstine Sinclair, Brill (2020) and Der Islam in der Globalen Moderne. Soziologische Theorie und die Vielfalt islamischer Modernitäten, Springer (2021).
""In this solid theoretical and empirical work, Jung effectively lays to rest the view that Islam is monolithic and not modern. Instead, multiple Islamic modernities have been entangled in the emergence of a single world society, co-constructing world societal systems and providing resources for modern individual and institutional agency."" -Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa