Mun'im Sirry
Associate Professor
Primary Area: World Religions and World Church
Biography
Mun’im Sirry is interested in various aspects of Qur’anic studies. He grew up in Madura (Indonesia) and did his undergrad and graduate studies in Islamic law at the International Islamic University in Islamabad (Pakistan). He then pursued his second Mater’s at UCLA and PhD at the University of Chicago with a dissertation on “Reformist Muslim Approaches to the Polemics of the Qur’an against Other Religions.” He is currently working on key concepts in Qur’anic studies.
Research Interests
Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic history, Christian-Muslim relations, religions and cultures in Southeast Asia (Indonesia)
Selected Publications
Youth, Education, and Islamic Radicalism: Religious Intolerance in Contemporary Indonesia (University of Notre Dame Press, 2024).
The Qur’an with Cross-References (De Gruyter, 2022).
Controversies over Islamic Origins: An Introduction to Traditionalism and Revisionism (Cambridge Scholars, 2021).
“Teachers’ Perspectives on Tolerance Education in Indonesian High Schools,” British Journal of Religious Education (2024).
Education
- Ph.D., University of Chicago