Pavel Pavlovitch is professor of Medieval Arabo-Islamic Civilization at the Department of Arabic and Semitic Studies at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. Pavel Pavlovitch has a BA in History from Baghdad University (1992); an MA in Arabic Studies from Sofia University (1994), and a PhD in History from Sofia University (1998). Doctor of philological sciences (2015). Associate professor since 2003. Full professor since 2017.
Member of Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI) since 1998.
In 2017, Prof. Pavlovich received the prestigious Book of the Year Award in Iran for his monograph Between Scripture and Canon. The Formation of the Islamic Understanding of Kalāla in the Second Century AH (718–816 CE).