Permanent Lecturers
(Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies)
He is the Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies, Indonesian International Islamic University (IIIU). He is a professor of Islam and politics and a former director of the graduate program of Islamic Studies at the Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University of Yogyakarta. He holds his first MA degree from Leiden University and a second MA from the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World in the Netherlands. He holds his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Utrecht University. He had pursued various academic journeys such as being a post-doctoral fellow at the National University of Singapore; visiting research fellow at Nanyang Technological University, and an affiliated research fellow at Clingendael, Den Haag. He has written numerous journal articles on Islam and Politics. He also has published a number of books published by reputable publishers. One of them is Laskar Jihad: Islam, Militancy, and the Quest for Identity in Post-New Order Indonesia (Cornell, 2006).
He is a lecturer and director of Library and Culture at the Indonesian International Islamic University (IIIU), and adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. Syafiq was a Visiting Fellow at the Indonesia Studies Programme, ISEAS 鈥� Yusof Ishak Institute and at the Indonesian Programmes of RSIS, NTU, Singapore. He obtained his Dr. Phil from Freie University, Germany, in 2014 and his MA from Leiden University, the Netherlands in 2002. He published books, journal articles, and commentaries, visual commentaries through TV and YouTube channels.
He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, Indonesian International Islamic University (IIIU). He pursued his Ph.D. from the Australian National University, and MA from the University of Manchester and Universiteit Leiden. He worked as a lecturer and researcher at the Binus University International, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Waikato, and the University of New South Wales in Canberra. His interests include but are not limited to Islamic Studies, Anthropology of Muslim Society, deradicalization studies, and text critique. He has written book chapters and journal articles on these interests.
Dr. M. Ilyas Marwal, M.M., D.E.S.A.
He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, Indonesian International Islamic University (IIIU), and an academic senate of the university. He is also a visiting lecturer in Islamic Law at the Postgraduate Program (PPS) at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) of Jakarta. His research interests span the methodology of fatwas and ijtihad, comparative Islamic doctrines, maq膩sid al-shar墨鈥檃 (objectives of shari鈥檃h), and Islamic jurisprudence of transactions. Dr. M. Ilyas Marwal obtained his Ph.D. in Islamic studies from Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco with a thesis entitled 鈥淛urisprudential adaptation of new investment banking finance contracts鈥�. He completed his M.A. in Islamic Studies at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University in Fez, Morocco. He was educated at Islamic University in Madinah al-Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia where he obtained his B.A. in Islamic Law.
He is the Secretary of the Faculty of Islamic Studies 蜜桃视频, as well as a lecturer at State Islamic University (UIN) Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten, Indonesia. He holds an MA and a Ph.D. from Leiden University. He is the author of Islam, State, and Society in Indonesia: Local Politics in Madura (Routledge, 2018) and articles in TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia; Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde; South East Asia Research; American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences; Studia Islamika; Al-Jami鈥檃h: Journal of Islamic Studies; Journal of Indonesian Islam; two edited volumes published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute; and Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (Brill). His research interests include contemporary political Islam, urban Muslims鈥� expressions, citizenship, rural politics, religious networks, identity politics, and contemporary Islamic history. He was a visiting fellow at KITLV and SOAS, University of London.
He is the Head of the MA Program in Islamic Studies and a lecturer at 蜜桃视频. He has been teaching Islam with social-cultural issues at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. He pursued his first MA in Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies from UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, while his second MA in Asian Studies from the Australian National University (ANU). He holds his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Political and Social Change at the Australian National University with a special focus on Islam in Indonesia. His academic interest includes Islamic Studies, Indonesian Studies, Muslim Movements, Hadhrami Arab diaspora, Piety and Youth, and Islam and Popular Culture. His publications have appeared in various journals including Archipel, Indonesia and Malay World, Studia Islamika, Aljami鈥檃h, and Journal of Indonesian Islam.
He is an Azharite scholar who pursued his postgraduate studies in Western academia. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Islamic studies from the University of Edinburgh, UK. His areas of expertise include Islamic law and modernity, modern Islamic thought, decolonization theory, Islamic history, Muslim- Christian relations, and Islamic theology. Before joining the 蜜桃视频, he received a visiting research fellowship from the American University in Cairo. He has published various articles in English, Arabic, and Turkish on the topics of Islamic law and women鈥檚 ownership of agricultural lands, higher objectives of Islamic law and modernity, Islamic public sphere, Wael Hallaq between the East and the West in addition to other publications in Muslim- Christian relations. He also presented his works at the universities of California Santa Barbara (USA), Leuven (Belgium), Edinburgh (UK), Exeter (UK), Nottingham (UK), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bonn (Germany), and other places. His forthcoming monograph is titled, 鈥淣on-reformists鈥� reform: decolonizing the history of Islamic law in nineteenth-century Egypt鈥�.
He has been teaching at the State Islamic University (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta since 2011 at the Faculty of Sharia and Law. Other than teaching and researching, Zezen has also extensive experience working with international organizations including the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross), Geneva Call, and UNICEF. He obtained his legal master鈥檚 degree from the University of Melbourne, School of Law, Australia, and his Science of Juridical Doctor (S.J.D) from UCLA School of Law, the United States. His academic interest includes international law, international human rights, humanitarian law, Islamic law as well as Islamic studies in general. His popular publication has appeared in the national media and on his personal blog. He also wrote journal articles in various international publications, academic books as well as a novel.
Haula received her Ph.D. in 2021 from the Australian National University鈥檚 Coral Bell School of Asia and Pacific Affairs. Her doctoral dissertation examined the role of family context in creating individuals to be a jihadist. She obtained her BA in Psychology and a MA in Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies, both from the State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah in Indonesia. Besides working with various research institutions, she is working with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for a project 鈥淪trive Juvenile: Preventing and Responding to Violence against Children by Terrorist and Violent Extremist Groups鈥�. Her research interests include Family and terrorism, family psychology, Islamic studies, and terrorism ideology. Haula鈥檚 publications include 鈥淲hen Parents Take their Children in Jihadist Suicide Bombing鈥� (2018) and 鈥淣ormative Support for Terrorism: The Attitudes and Beliefs of Immediate Relatives of Jemaah Islamiyah Members鈥� (2011).
Dr. Bhirawa Anoraga
He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, International Islamic University Indonesia. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW Canberra. His thesis titled New Media and Social Engagement: The Promotion of Civic Pluralism in Contemporary Indonesia examines the trend of crowdfunding and online philanthropy toward social engagement and Islam in Indonesia. Dr. Anoraga pursued his Master's degree in Islamic Finance at Durham University. His research interest includes digital Islam, Islamic economy and philanthropy, youth, and online movements.
Visiting Lecturers
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Khalid Masud
He is Director General of Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Khalid was appointed as an Ad Hoc Member of the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court in 2012. He obtained his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Previously he worked as the Academic Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in Leiden, Netherlands. Until 1999, he was a professor at the Islamic Research Institute in Islamabad (Pakistan). His publications include Shatibi鈥檚 Philosophy of Law, Iqbal鈥檚 Reconstruction of Ijtihad, Islamic Legal Interpretation: The Muftis and their Fatwas (with B. Messick and D. Powers), and the edited volume Travellers in Faith: Studies of the Tabl卯gh卯 Jam芒鈥檃t as a Transnational Islamic Movement for Faith Renewal (2000). He also has been an editor of the Journal of Islamic Studies
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Raougui
He is one of the distinguished Islamic studies experts in Morocco and the head of the Sharia Committee Board of Islamic Banking in Morocco. He is a professor in Usul Fiqh at Mohammed V University and Institute of Darul Hadith Hasania in Rabat, and he was the former rector of the University of Al-Qarawiyyin, Fez, Morocco. He received M.A in Fiqh Maliky Studies and Ph.D. in Usul Fiqh from Mohammed V University in Rabat. He has also published many scientific and literary articles in several national and international journals and participated in several scientific, national, and international symposiums and conferences. He is a senior expert at the International Islamic Fiqh Academy in Jeddah from the beginning of 2006 until now. He is a member of several Muslim scholar associations including the Advisory Board of the Maliki Jurisprudence Project in Daleel - Dubai - United Arab Emirates; the World Islamic Literature Association; and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs in Morocco. He is also President of the Association of Graduates of Higher Islamic Studies in Rabat.
Dr. Kholoud Al-Ajarma
She is Alwaleed Lecturer in the Globalised Muslim World with research interests in environmental concerns across the contemporary Muslim World. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Comparative Study of Religion from the University of Groningen (Netherlands). Her Ph.D. thesis focused on the socio-cultural embeddedness of Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) in Moroccan everyday life. During her Ph.D. studies, she worked as a lecturer at the University of Groningen and delivered several courses including 鈥楢nthropology of Muslim Societies鈥�, 鈥業slam: History, Sources, and Practices, and 鈥楳inorities in Contemporary Europe鈥�. Her current research focuses on water resource management and contemporary environmental concerns in the Muslim World.
Prof. Dr. Tim Lindsey
He is one of Australia鈥檚 leading experts on Indonesian law and has advised governments, businesses, international organizations, courts, and legal practitioners in Indonesia and Australia. He is Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam, and Society at the Melbourne Law School. He holds a Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Arts, and Bachelor of Letters from the University of Melbourne and completed his Ph.D. thesis in Indonesian studies. A specialist in a wide range of aspects of Indonesian law, including public law, criminal law, commercial law, and family law, he also teaches and researches shari鈥檃 (Islamic law) in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. He has won national and university teaching awards and was an ARC Federation Fellow from 2006 to 2011. He has produced more than 100 publications including Indonesia: Law and Society; Islam, Law and the State in Southeast Asia (three volumes); The Indonesian Constitution; Drugs Law and Practice in Southeast Asia; Religion, Law and Intolerance in Indonesia; and Strangers Next Door: Indonesia and Australia in the Asian Century.
He is a senior fellow and coordinator of the regional social and cultural studies program at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. He was awarded a Ph.D. in International, Political, and Strategic Studies by the Australian National University (ANU) in 2015. he received a BA (Hons) in Political Science and MA in Malay Studies from the National University of Singapore. Dr. Shahril was a recipient of the following scholarships and awards: NUS MA Scholar (2008), Tun Dato鈥� Sir Cheng Lock Tan ISEAS MA Scholar (2008), MUIS Ph.D. Scholar (2012), and Syed Isa Semait Scholar (2015). In 2017, the MOE-SSRC awarded him a grant to study Singapore鈥檚 Islamic Studies Graduates. He is currently a member of the Editorial Committee for the journal SOJOURN. He also sits as a volunteer on numerous advisory boards, including as the Chairman of the Malay Heritage Foundation (MHF). He has produced numerous journal articles and several books related to Islam and Politics in Indonesia and Malaysia.