BIOGRAPHY

Anwar Alam is a Distinguished Fellow with Policy Perspectives Foundation, New Delhi. Earlier, he served as full Professor in the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Zirve University, Gaziantep, Turkey; Professor and Director of the Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI); Assistant and Associate Professor at the Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi; and Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. Dr. Alam has been awarded a number of long term and short term fellowship including the Indian Council of Social Science Research (I.C.S.S.R) Doctoral Fellowship (1991), Alexander Von Humboldt (AVH) Post Doctoral Fellowship (2004-2006), Germany, AVH Renewed fellowship, Germany (June 2016, May-October 2017), International Visitor Programme (Islamic) Scholarship, (2002) USA, Indo-French Social Scientist Exchange Programme Fellowship (2003, 2010), France. He was Visiting Professor at Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey (2010 –2011). He was AVH Visiting Fellow at the Department of Philology, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany in 2016 and 2017. Dr. Alam's recent publications include Turkey, ‘G20 and Global Governance: Aspiration and Limitation’ in John Whalley and Manmohan Agarwal, ed. A World Scientific Reference Vol 1: Developing Countries and the Need for G 20, 2020, ‘State and Muslims in India: Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion’’ in Madhushree Sekher and Radu Carciumaru eds , Including the Excluded in South Asia: Power, Politics and Policy Perspectives from the Region, 2019, ‘The Muslim Question’ and Discourse of Marginalisation of Muslims in India: An Examination, Indian Journal of Secularism, vol. 22, no. 4, Jan-March 2019, For The Sake of Allah, The Origin, Development and Discourse of the Gulen Movement (2019), Understanding the Process of Radicalisation amongst Muslims in India’, 2018. ‘India, Non-alignment and Emerging Global Governance’, India Quarterly 73(3), 2017, Muslim Minorities in Europe and India: Politics of Accommodation of Islamic Identities (co-edited, July 2016), ‘India’s Strategic Vision About West Asia and Its Limitations’, Middle East Institute, www.mei.edu/content/map/india-s-strategic-vision-about-west-asia-and-its-limitations, 21.3 2017,‘Reflections on ‘Islamic’ Terrorism with special reference to West Asia and North Africa’ (WANA), Dialogue Quarterly, 18 (2) October-December, 2016, “Emergence of Muslim Middle Class in Post-Independence India and Its Political Orientations,” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 35, 1 (2015) and ‘The Arab Spring: A View From India’ in Larbi Sadiki ed. Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring : Rethinking Democratisation (2014). His forthcoming publication is The Disintegration of ISIS: Implications for Indian National Security (2020). His area of research interests includes International Politics, Indian politics, Politics in Middle East, Political Theory, Religion and Politics, Political Islam, and Muslim Societies.