Mun'im Ahmad Sirry is an Indonesian Quranic studies scholar. He is assistant professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.
Biography
Sirry was born in West Bataal Village, Ganding District, Sumenep, Indonesia, 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 Pakistan from 1990 to 1996. Sirry then received a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States, where he completed a master's degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2012. He co-edits the journal Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations with Professor Gabriel Said Reynolds.
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.)
- 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
References
- 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.
- ^ "University of Notre Dame". Department of Theology. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
- ^ Hidayat 2024, p. 49.
- Hidayat 2024, p. 50.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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Categories:- Living people
- University of Notre Dame faculty
- University of Chicago Divinity School alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- Quranic studies scholars
- Muslim scholars of Islamic studies
- 21st-century Muslim theologians
- Indonesian Muslims
- People from Sumenep Regency
- Indonesian Muslim scholars of Islam
- Islamic studies scholars
- History of Quran scholars