Dr. Khairudin Aljunied

Dr. Khairudin Aljunied is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his BA and MA in History from the National University of Singapore in 2003 and completed his doctorate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, in 2008. Dr. Khairudin has studied and conducted research in countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Dr. Khairudin has held a number of visiting positions. He was an Honorary Research Associate at La Trobe University, Australia, in 2012. In 2013, he was a Fulbright Professor at Columbia University. More recently, Dr. Khairudin was a Visiting Professor at the University of Brunei (2015). He was appointed as Full Professor and the Malaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia at Georgetown University (2017-2018) and maintains a position as Senior Fellow. A recognized specialist in the field of intellectual history, his research focuses on the connections between Southeast Asia and Global Islam. He is the author and editor of thirteen books and more than thirty internationally refereed articles. Recent publications include Resistance and Protest in Colonial Malaya (Northern Illinois University Press, 2016), Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Southeast Asian Islam in Comparative Perspective (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Hamka and Islam: Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World (Cornell University Press, 2018), Islam in Malaysia: An Entwined History (Oxford University Press, 2019), Shapers of Islam in Southeast Asia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), Contemplating Sufism: Dialogue and Tradition across Southeast Asia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2025). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Ihya’ Journal of Islamic Thought.