Prof. Dr. Ma Qiang is affiliated to Institute for Western Frontier Region of China, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an city, China. He graduated with a Bachelor of History Degree and Master of Philosophy (Majoring in Comparative Religions Study) from Northwest Minorities University in Lanzhou, and obtained his Ph.D. in Anthropology of Religion from Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou. He got Asia Scholarship Foundation in 2008 and conducted his research in Kuala Lumpur for 10 months. He also got Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET) from the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China in 2012. He was selected as a Senior Visiting Fellow to California University Berkeley in 2013 and Simon Fraser University Canada in 2022 by China Scholarship Council. He is currently focusing on ethnic groups, as well as South Asia Muslims and society, especially Pakistan. He was invited by SOAS (University of London), Toyo Bunko (Japan), Waseda University, Osaka University, UIA (Malaysia), IIUM (Malaysia), The Forum for Arab and International Relations (Qatar), University of Geneve, Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies, etc., to give talk in different international conference.
He is now focusing on Area Studies, particularly the ethnic groups and religions in South Asia. Pakistan is his frequent fields for doing fieldwork.
His more influential books include:
Moving Spiritual Community: An Anthropological Study on Muslim Jamā’at of Guangzhou (China Social Science Press, 2006).
Internal and External Xi’an Hui Muslim Quarter: Islam Encounters Urban Modernization (Beijing: Chinese Social Science Publishing House, 2011).
Transcending Boundaries: A Comparative Research on Muslim Converts in China and Malaysia (Gansu Minzu Publishing House, 2013).
Social Transformation and Practical Adaptation: Processes of Modernization and the Urban Muslim Experience in China, Taiwan: Lantai Publisher, 2020.
History and Theory: Compiled Translations of Leading Articles on Anthropology of Islam, Qinghai People's Publication House, 2019.
Sirāj al-Qulūb: Transliteration, Translation and Annotation of Sinicized Multi-language Corpuses Literature Written in Chinese, Arabic and Persian, Taiwan: Lantai Publisher, 2021.
China Travel of Abdul Rashid Ibrahim, Taiwan: Lantai Publisher, 2021. It is the selected translation from Abdul Rashid Ibrahim, The Islamic World and the Spread of Islam at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, İstanbul: Ahmad Saqi Bak, 1911.
Monographic Studies on Pakistan Society: An Anthropological Approach, World Affairs Press Co. Ltd, 2022.
E-mail: maqxyz@163.com
