Mun'im Sirry

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

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

• 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

• Walid Saleh

References

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. "University of Notre Dame". Department of Theology. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
3. 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:
   • 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.
   • Galadari, Abdulla (2022). "Controversies over Islamic Origins: An Introduction to Traditionalism and Revisionism: by Mun'im Sirry". Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations. 33 (2): 195–197. doi:10.1080/09596410.2022.2048520. ISSN   0959-6410.
   • Hidayat, Thaufiq (2024). "Mun'im Sirry's Position in Early Islamic Studies: Between Traditionalists and Revisionists". Majalah Ilmu Pengetahuan dan Pemikiran Keagamaan TAJDID. 27 (1): 47–66.
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.

External links

• Google scholar page