Martin van Bruinessen is a Dutch anthropologist and author, who has published a number of publications on the Kurdish, Indonesian, Turkish, Persian cultures, and also on aspects of Islam as a whole. He taught the sociology of religion at the State Institute of Islamic Studies of Yogyakarta, Indonesia and has been teaching Kurdish and Turkish studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands since 1994 as associate professor. He shifted his emphasis in 1998 to a broader scope, Islamic Studies, after becoming Professor of the Comparative Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at Utrecht University. He also wrote and researched some issues of the early stages of Islam in Java. References Personal Profile, Utrecht University External links Academic page Living people Dutch anthropologists People from Schoonhoven Utrecht University alumni Academic staff of Utrecht University Dutch Islamic studies scholars