Mun'im Ahmad Sirry is an Indonesian Quranic studies scholar.[1] He is assistant professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.[2]

Biography

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Sirry was born in West Bataal Village, Ganding District, Sumenep, Indonesia, to a farming family.[3] He studied at TMI al-Amien Islamic Boarding School in Prenduan, Sumenep Madura, from 1983 to 1990.[3] Following this, he pursued his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Faculty of Sharia at the International Islamic University Islamabad in Pakistan from 1990 to 1996.[3] Sirry then received a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States,[4] where he completed a master's degree at the University of California, Los Angeles,[2] and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2012.[2] He co-edits the journal Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations with Professor Gabriel Said Reynolds.[2]

Works

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  • Youth, Education, and Islamic Radicalism: Religious Intolerance in Contemporary Indonesia (2024)
  • The Qur'an with Cross-References (2022)[5]
  • Controversies over Islamic Origins: An Introduction to Traditionalism and Revisionism (2021)[6]
  • New Trends in Qur’ānic Studies: Text, Context, and Interpretation (2019) (ed.)[7]
  • Finding Beauty in the Other: Theological Reflections Across Religious Traditions (2017) (ed.) with Peter Casarella
  • Scriptural Polemics: The Qur'an and Other Religions (2014)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Kabakcı, Ersin (2024). "Mun'im Sirry, Controversies over Islamic Origins: An Introduction to Traditionalism and Revisionism". Kitabiyat İlahiyat Araştırmaları İnceleme-Eleştiri Dergisi (in Turkish). 2 (1). Samsun Üniversitesi: 124–142. ISSN 3023-6584. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  2. ^ a b c d "University of Notre Dame". Department of Theology. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
  3. ^ a b c Hidayat 2024, p. 49.
  4. ^ Hidayat 2024, p. 50.
  5. ^ Reviews of The Qur'an with Cross-References:
    • Saleh, Walid A. (2024). "Mun'im A. Sirry: The Qur'an with Cross-References". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 87 (1): 215–217. doi:10.1017/S0041977X24000107. ISSN 0041-977X.
    • Karim, F. Redhwan. (2023) Mun’im Sirry, The Qur’an with Cross-References (Boston: De Gruyter 2022) in The Muslim World Book Review 43, no. 3. 25-27.
  6. ^ Reviews of Controversies over Islamic Origins: An Introduction to Traditionalism and Revisionism:
  7. ^ Reviews of New Trends in Qur’ānic Studies: Text, Context, and Interpretation:
    • Marcotte, Roxanne D. (2022). "New Trends in Qur'anic Studies: Text, Context, and Interpretation: edited by Mun'im Sirry". Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations. 33 (1): 99–101. doi:10.1080/09596410.2022.2031656. ISSN 0959-6410.
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