Professor Wolfgang Bock studied Law and Political Science at the Universities of Geneva, Giessen and Frankfurt/Main. Since 1979 he worked as judge at the Frankfurt/Main Regional Court in civil and criminal matters as well as at the Wiesbaden Administrative Court. Bock obtained a doctorate at the Faculty of Law of the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University Frankfurt/Main in 1993, as well as a postdoctoral degree in Public Law (Habilitation) at the Faculty of Law of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He worked as lecturer at the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Marburg and as associate professor at the Justus Liebig University Giessen. Furthermore, he was a Counsellor for Constitutional and International Law at the Federal Academy for Security Policy covering the Near and Middle East and Islamic cultures. He writes and teaches on Constitutional Law und Security Law, on Islam, Islamic Cultures and Islamism, and on Policies and Legal Cultures in the MENA region.