Zoltán Páll Senior Researcher
Zoltan Pall is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. His research focuses on Islam, religious movements and transnational networks in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, with particular emphasis on Salafism, Islamic authority, religious education and the circulation of religious ideas and actors across borders.
He obtained his PhD from Utrecht University and has held research positions at the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Prague. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, including Lebanon, Cambodia, Indonesia and the southern Philippines.
His broader research interests include the anthropology and sociology of Islam, transnational religious movements, Muslim minority politics and the relationship between religion, society and political order.
