
He has held visiting fellowship and other positions at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany and The Graduate Centre, CUNY, New York. Irfan is on the Editorial Committee of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies and Associate Editor of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. He is a contributor to the prestigious The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. His numerous articles have appeared in leading international journals. Irfan is the author of Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of the Jamaat-e-Islami (Princeton University Press, 2009) which was short-listed for the 2011 ICAS (International Convention of Asian Scholars) Book Prize for the best study in the field of Social Sciences. He was a Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Before moving to Australia, he taught at Utrecht University and University of Amsterdam.

Still earlier, he was a senior lecturer in politics at Monash University, Australia where he taught for nearly five years. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor of Political Anthropology at the Institute for Religion and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Theology and Philosophy, ACU, Melbourne.


Until ealrly 2022, he was Senior Research Fellow (Professor) at Max planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany. Cum Laude, University of Amsterdam) is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey.
