Jürgen Wasim Frembgen is a German ethnologist and scholar who is an associate professor of Islamic religious and cultural history at the University of Munich.[1][2] He is also the chief curator of the Museum of Ethnology, Munich.[2]
Frembgen is known for his work on Sufism in Pakistan and has written multiple books on this subject.[3] Among the books that have been reviewed by multiple publications, include The Closed Valley: With Fierce Friends in the Pakistani Himalayas[4], The Friends of God: Sufi Saints in Islam,[5]We are Lovers of the Qalandar: Piety, Pilgrimage and Ritual in Pakistani Sufi Islam,[6]At the Shrine of the Red Sufi.[7]