Fritz Schulze

Fritz Schulze is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Arabic Studies / Islamic Studies II, Georg-August-University Göttingen. His academic journey includes habilitations in Southeast Asian Studies (2001) and Islamic Studies (2015), with teaching and research focused on traditional Malay historiography, Islamization processes, and Indonesian Islamic traditions.

• Doctorate in Malay Studies and Islamic Studies (University of Cologne, 1990)
• Habilitation in Southeast Asian Studies (Goethe University Frankfurt, 2001)
• Habilitation in Islamic Studies (University of Göttingen, 2015)

Research interests:

• Ancestry and power legitimization in Malay historiography
• Islam in Southeast Asia and Indonesia
• Indigenous text editing and analysis

He actively fosters academic cooperation between the University of Göttingen's South Asia Institute and Indonesian Islamic higher education institutions.