DR. IMTIYAZ YUSUF
Session 3 : Nusantara Islam
09.3.2020 | Monday | 2.30 pm
Dr. Imtiyaz Yusuf is the Associate Professor and the Deputy Dean for Students Development and Community Engagement and also the
coordinator for Islam and Buddhism Programme at The International Institute of Islamic Civilisation Thought and Civilisation (ISTAC-IIUM), Malaysia. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, (ACMCU) Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA. Formerly, he was the Director of the Center for Buddhist-Muslim Understanding in the College of Religious Studies at Mahidol University in Thailand. He specializes in religion with a focus on Islam in Thailand and Southeast Asia and Muslim-Buddhist dialogue. He has contributed to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islamic World (2009); Oxford Dictionary of Islam (2003); Encyclopedia of Qur’an (2002); and Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern Islamic World (1995). He was also the special editor of the The Muslim World – A Special Issue on Islam and Buddhism Vol. 100, Nos 2-3 April/July 2010. His most recent publications are: Multiculturalism in Asia: Peace and Harmony (2018); and Three Faces of the Rohingya Crisis: Religious Nationalism, Asian Islamophobia, and Delegitimizing Citizenship in Studia Islamika, [Scopus Indexed], Vol. 25, no. 3, December 2018, pp. 503- 542. He often writes on Islam and Buddhism relations and about religion related issues in Southeast Asia for the Bangkok Post and The Nation (Bangkok)
