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Short Curriculum Vitae

Muhamad Ali

Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program (2016-2019, 2019-2022); Associate Professor of Islamic Studies; Religious Studies Department. Faculty member of Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual, and Performance [SEATRIP] Program, Asian Studies Program, Global Studies Program. University of California, Riverside, U.S.A. 

EDUCATION

2002 – 2007     Ph.D., History: Southeast Asia; Minor Fields: World, Europe, Middle East. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA.

2000 – 2001     M.Sc. in Islam and Politics, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Edinburgh University, Scotland, U.K.

1998 – 1999 MM-CAAE in Management, Grenoble Paris & University of Indonesia

1992 – 1997.     B.A. in Islamic Studies. The State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, Indonesia.  

COURSES TAUGHT   

Islam; Islam: History, Text, and Interpretation; Topics in Modern Islam; Reading the Qur’an; Comparative Scripture; Introduction to Asian Religions; Southeast Asian Religions ; Islam in Southeast Asia; Islam in America; Peace in the Middle East; Public Religious Discourses in Modern Islam; Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies; Religion, Politics, and Public Discourse; Religions in Contact; Thinking About Religions: Classic Theories.  

SELECT PUBLICATIONS 

Books

  • Islam and Colonialism: Becoming Modern in Indonesia and Malaya. Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh, U.K., 2016.  
  • Bridging Islam and the West: An Indonesian View. Ushul Press, Faculty of Ushuluddin, the State Islamic University. Jakarta. 2009. 
  • Teologi Pluralis-Multikultural: (Multicultural-Pluralist Theology). Penerbit Buku Kompas. Jakarta. 2003. 

Book Chapters

  • The Interplay between Adab and Local Ethics ad Etiquette in Indonesian and Malaysian Literature. Piety, Politics, and Everyday Ethics in Southeast Asian Islam: Beautiful Behavior. Ed. Robert Rozehnal. Bloomsbury Academic. London.2019.
  • Khutbahs and Fatwas in Colonial Indonesia and Malaya. Research Hanbook on Islamic Law and Society. Ed. Nadirsyah Hosen. Edward Elgar. Cheltenham, U.K., 2018.
  • Malaysia’s Islam Hadhari and the Role of the Nation-State in International Relations.  Islam and International Relations: Contributions to Theory and Practice. Editors: Nassef Manabilang Adiong, Deina Abdelkader, Raffaele Mauriello. Palgrave Macmillan, London. 2016. 
  • Far from Mecca: Modern Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia. Islam in the Modern World. Editors: Ebrahim Moosa, Jeffrey Kenney. Routledge. Oxon, U.K. 2013.
  • Islam in Modern Southeast Asian History. Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History. Editors: Norman Owen. Routledge. London. 2013 
  • The Internet, Cyber-Religion and Authority: The Case of the Indonesian Liberal Islam Network. Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia. Editor: Andrew Weinstraub. Routledge. London. 2011. 
  • Islam and Economic Development in New Order’s Indonesia (1967-1998). Islam in Southeast Asia, Vol. 3. Editors: Joseph Chinyong Liow, Nadirsyah Hosen, Taylor & Francis Group: London and New York. 2010. 
  • Moderate Islamic Movements in Contemporary Indonesia. Islamic Thought and Movements in Contemporary Indonesia. Editors: Rizal Sukma, Clara Joewono. Center for Strategic and International Studies. Jakarta. 2007.  

Journal Articles and Entries

  • Harun Nasution. Oxford Islamic Studies Online. 2019.
  • Agama dan Negara di Indonesia dalam Perspektif Sejarah (Religon and the State in Indonesia: A Historical Perspective, Abad: Jurnal Sejarah, Vol.3, No.2, 2019 
  • Nationalism and Islam: Perspectives of Egyptian and Syrian Muslim Intellectuals. Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies. Vol. 4:1, 2014. 
  • Islamic Liberalism in Southeast Asia. Oxford Islamic Studies Online. 2012.
  • Muslim Diversity: Islam and Local Tradition in Java and Sulawesi, Indonesia. Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societes. Vol. 1: 1, 2011. 
  • Eclecticism of Modern Islam: Islam Hadhari in Malaysia. Studia Islamika. Vol. 18: 1, 2011.  
  • Religion, Imperialism, and Resistance in the Nineteenth Century’s Netherlands Indies and Spanish Philippines. Jurnal Kajian Wilayah (The Indonesian Journal of Area Studies). Vol. No. 1: No. 1, 2010.
  • “They are not All Alike”: Indonesian Intellectuals Perception of Judaism and Jews. Indonesia and the Malay World.Vol. 38: 112, 2010.  
  • “Chinese Muslims in Indonesia: A Post-Diasporic Experience”. Explorations. Vol. 7. No.2, 2007.  
  • Confrontation and Reconciliation: Muslim Voices of Maluku Conflict (1999-2002). Journal of Indonesian Islam. Vol. 1, No.2, 2007 
  • Categorizing Muslims in Postcolonial Indonesia. Moussons. Vol. 11, 2007
  • Transmission of Islamic Knowledge in Kelantan, The Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Vol. 79: 2, 2006
  • The Rise of the Liberal Islamic Network (JIL) in Contemporary Indonesia”. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. Vol. 22:1, 2005
  • The Fatwas on Interfaith Marriage in Indonesia, Studia Islamika. Vol. 9, No. 3, 2002. 
  • The Concept of Umma and the Reality of the Nation-Sate: A Western and Muslim Discourse”. Kultur: The Indonesian Journal of Muslim Cultures. Vol. 2, No.1, 2002.