Mun'im Ahmad Sirry is an

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scholar. He is assistant professor of

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at the

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Biography

Sirry was born in West Bataal Village, Ganding District, Sumenep,

, to a farming family. He studied at TMI al-Amien Islamic Boarding School in Prenduan, Sumenep Madura, from 1983 to 1990. Following this, he pursued his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Faculty of Sharia at the International Islamic University Islamabad in

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from 1990 to 1996. Sirry then received a

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to study in the

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, where he completed a master's degree at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

, and earned his Ph.D. from the

University of Chicago Divinity School The University of Chicago Divinity School is a graduate professional school at the University of Chicago dedicated to the training of academics and clergy across religious boundaries. Formed under Baptist auspices, the school today is without ...

in 2012. He co-edits the journal ''Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations'' with Professor

Gabriel Said Reynolds Gabriel Said Reynolds is an American academic and historian of religion, who serves as Jerome J. Crowley and Rosaleen G. Crowley Professor of Theology and assistant professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His scholarship foc ...

Works

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

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