Dr. Khairudin Aljunied

Dr. Khairudin Aljunied is a Professor of Islam in Southeast Asia at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC-IIUM) and 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 Colonialism, Violence and Muslims in Southeast Asia The Maria Hertogh Controversy and its Aftermath (Routledge, 2009), Resistance and Protest in Colonial Malaya (Cornell 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), Knowledge, Tradition and Civilization: Essays in Honour of Professor Osman Bakar (Beacon Books, 2022), Contemplating Sufism: Dialogue and Tradition across Southeast Asia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2025) and How to Change Muslim Civilizations: Reading the Muqaddimah (Polity Press​, 2026). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Ihya’ Journal of Islamic Thought.