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---PhD (August 1998), Islamic Civilization (ISTAC, on behalf of the International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur). Title of the doctoral dissertation: "Mirza Rafi‘a's Dastur al-Muluk: A Manual of Later Safavid Administration. Annotated English Translation, Commentary on the Offices and Services, and Facsimile of the Unique Persian Manuscript (published in 2002), supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ahmad Kazemi-Moussavi.
---Doctorate (1995-98, full-scholarship), at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in the field of Islamic Civilization.
---M.A., 1993, Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies and Political Sciences (Freie Universität Berlin), title of the MA-thesis: "Taqiya versus Wilayat al-Faqih: Die schiitischen Theologen Iraks und ihr Verhältnis zur Staatsmacht [Iraq's Shi'ite Theologians and their Relations with the State", supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bert G. Fragner (expanded English translation published in 2004).
---Persian Language Studies, Iran (1984-86).

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---2012
(with Nora Eggen), Islam in Europe: Present Trends and Future Challenges. With a foreword by Constance Chevallier-Govers, University of Grenoble. IAIS Monograph Series 4 (Kuala Lumpur: IAIS Malaysia, 2012). ISBN 978-967-10065-4-2.

---2011

(Ed., in collaboration with Constance Chevallier-Govers and Ruhanas Harun), Malaysia and the European Union: Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century. Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology 32 (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2011). ISBN 978-364-3-800855.

---2010

Shi’ite Identities: Community and Culture in Changing Social Contexts. Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology 27 (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2010). ISBN 978-643-3- 80049-7.

---2009

(Ed.) The Islamic World and the West: Managing Religious and Cultural Identities in the Age of Globalisation, Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology 24 (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2009). ISBN 978-3-643-80001-5.

---2005

From Isfahan to Ayutthaya: Contacts between Iran and Siam in the 17th Century. With a foreword by Professor Ehsan Yarshater, Columbia University, New York (Singapore: Pustaka Nasional, 2005). ISBN 9971-77-491-7.

---2004

Religion and Politics in Iraq. Shi‘ite Clerics between Quietism and Resistance. With a foreword by Professor Hamid Algar, University of California at Berkeley (Singapore: Pustaka Nasional, 2004). ISBN 9971-77-513-1 (an aridged English version of Dr. Marcinkowski's German Master's Thesis, submitted in 1992 to the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, original title: Taqiya versus Wilayat al-Faqih: Die schiitischen Theologen Iraks und ihr Verhältnis zur Staatsmacht [Iraq's Shi'ite Clerics and their Relations with the State)

---2003

Measures and Weights in the Islamic World. An English Translation of Professor Walther Hinz‘s Handbook „Islamische Maße und Gewichte“. With a foreword by Professor Clifford Edmund Bosworth, FBA (Kuala Lumpur: ISTAC, 2003). ISBN 983-9379-27-5 (authorized translation; title of the German original: Walther Hinz, "Islamische Maße und Gewichte, umgerechnet ins metrische System," Handbuch der Orientalistik, erste Abteilung, Ergänzungsband I, Heft 1 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1970))
Persian Historiography and Geography: Bertold Spuler on Major Works Produced in Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia, India and Early Ottoman Turkey. With a foreword by Professor Clifford Edmund Bosworth, FBA (Singapore: Pustaka Nasional, 2003). ISBN 9971-77-488-7 (authorized translation; title of the German original: Bertold Spuler, "Die historische und geographische Literatur in persischer Sprache," Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1. Abteilung, Band IV, 2. Abschnitt, Lieferung 1 (Leiden and Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1982), pp.101-67)

---2002

Mirza Rafi‘a’s Dastur al-Muluk: A Manual of Later Safavid Administration. Annotated English Translation, Comments on the Offices and Services, and Facsimile of the Unique Persian Manuscript (Kuala Lumpur: ISTAC, 2002). ISBN 983-9379-26-7 (diss. 1998; an (unauthorised) Persian translation by Ali Kordabadi and Mansur Sefatgol appeared in 1385 AH solar (2006) under the title Dastur ol-Moluk-e Mirza Rafi‘a in Tehran (Markaz-e Asnad va Tarikh-e Diplomasi; published by the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

---2001

(Tr.) Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam und die geistigen Grundlagen von Wissenschaft (Kuala Lumpur: ISTAC, 2001). ISBN 983-9379-13-5 (title of the English original: Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam and the Philosophy of Science (Kuala Lumpur: ISTAC, 1989).

---1999

(Tr.) Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Die Bedeutung und das Erleben von Glückseligkeit im Islam (Kuala Lumpur: ISTAC, 1998). ISBN 983-9379-08-9 (title of the English original: Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, The Meaning and Experience of Happiness im Islam (Kuala Lumpur: ISTAC, 1993).

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