Mark Durie (born 1958) is an Australian

Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...

priest and a scholar in linguistics and theology. He is the founding director of the Institute for Spiritual Awareness, a Fellow at the

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, and a senior research fellow of the Arthur Jeffery Centre for the Study of Islam at the

Melbourne School of Theology The Melbourne School of Theology (MST) is an evangelical Christian theological college with its main campus in Wantirna, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The school has a Chinese department, known as MST Chinese, in which under ...

Life and career

Durie was born in Papua to missionary parents, and grew up in

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. Mark Durie was awarded a PhD by the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

in 1984. Subsequently he held visiting appointments at the

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, the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

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and the

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. From 1987 to 1997 he held positions of postdoctoral fellow, lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and associate professor at the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

. Ordained an Anglican deacon and priest in 1999, he has served on the staff of St Mark's Camberwell, St Hilary's Kew, St Mary's Caulfield, St Clement's Elsternwick and St Catharine's South Caulfield. He holds a BTh (Hons), and DipTh from the

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and in 2016 completed a

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with the Australian College of Theology and

. Durie has published articles and books on the

Acehnese language Acehnese or Achinese (Jawi alphabet, Jawi: بهسا اچيه) is an Austronesian languages, Austronesian language natively spoken by the Acehnese people in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. This language is also spoken by Acehnese descendants in some p ...

Aceh Aceh ( ), officially the Aceh Province ( ace, Nanggroë Acèh; id, Provinsi Aceh) is the westernmost province of Indonesia. It is located on the northernmost of Sumatra island, with Banda Aceh being its capital and largest city. Granted a s ...

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linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

, the genesis of the

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and interfaith relations. He was elected to the

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in 1992. He has been described as "the most accomplished specialist on Acehnese writing in English". His book '' The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom'' has a foreword by

Bat Ye'or ) , birth_date = , birth_place = Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt , death_date= , death_place= , occupation = Writer , nationality = British , signature= , alma_mater = University College LondonUniversity of Geneva , genre= , notableworks = '' The Declin ...

, and Durie has been described as a proponent of Ye'or's

counter-jihad Counter-jihad, also spelled counterjihad and known as the counter-jihad movement, is a self-titled political current loosely consisting of authors, bloggers, think tanks, street movements and campaign organisations all linked by apocalyptic beli ...

ist worldview. He has appeared on

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Works

Journal articles

*Durie, Mark. "The So-Called Passive of Acehnese." ''

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''.

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, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Mar., 1988), pp. 104–113 - Available at

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: https://www.jstor.org/stable/414788 * () "(Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde)." Foris Publications, 1985. , . *Durie, Mark.
Proto-Chamic and Acehnese mid vowels : towards Proto-Aceh-Chamic
" 1988.
Archive
*Durie, Mark.
Control and decontrol in acehnese
" ''

Australian Journal of Linguistics The ''Australian Journal of Linguistics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of linguistics established in 1981. It is the official journal of the Australian Linguistic Society and is published by Routledge. Its main focus ...

''. Volume 5, Issue 1, 1985. p. 43-53. Published online: 14 August 2008. DOI:10.1080/07268608508599335. *Durie, Mark. "Grammatical Relations in Acehnese." ''

Studies in Language ''Studies in Language'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in linguistics as viewed from discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspectives. It is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company and was established ...

'', 1987. vol. 11, no2, pp. 365–399. ISSN 0378-4177. DOI 10.1075/sl.11.2.05dur.

Books

*Daud, Bukhari and Mark Durie. ''Kamus bahasa Aceh'' (Volume 151 of Pacific linguistics). Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,

, 1999. , 9780858835061. *'' The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom''. Deror Books, 2010.

Opinion articles

Creed of the Sword
() ''

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''. 23 September 2006.
Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?
*From

Broken Hill Broken Hill is an inland mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia. It is near the border with South Australia on the crossing of the Barrier Highway (A32) and the Silver City Highway (B79), in the Barrier Range. It is ...

to Martin Place: Individual Jihad Comes to Australia, 1915 to 2015

References

External links

Mark Durie's Website

OLAC resources in and about the Achinese language
- Open Language Archives Community *
Christianity: Will the REAL Religion of Peace please step forward!
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