Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief: Professor 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.

Executive Editor: Dr. Safaruk Chowdhury

Dr. Safaruk Chowdhury is the Academic Director of the Centre for Islamic Knowledge. He studied Philosophy at Kings College London, completing it with the accompanying Associate of Kings College (AKC) award. He then travelled to Cairo to study the traditional Islamic Studies curricula at al-Azhar University. He returned to the UK to complete his MA at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London with distinction. His doctoral dissertation was on the eminent Sufi hagiographer and theoretician Abu 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami (d. 412/1021), published as A Sufi Apologist of Nishapur: The Life and Thought of Abu 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami (Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 2019). He has published numerous academic articles in the fields of Islamic philosophy and theology focusing on ethics, metaphysics, logic and epistemology. His most recent book is Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil (New York and Cairo: AUC Press, 2021), which is the first work in Islamic Studies to treat the topic within the analytic theology approach. Chowdhury was the lead researcher on the project Beyond Foundationalism: New Horizons in Muslim Analytic Theology, funded under a John Templeton Foundation grant award in association with Cambridge Muslim College and Aziz Foundation, exploring new vistas in Islamic epistemology. Chowdhury is a past lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and Birkbeck, University of London. He runs the Islamic Analytic Theology website, and his academic work can be found on his Academia.edu page. He is currently the executive editor of the Journal of Islamic Philosophy and the Ihya’ Journal of Islamic Thought, a research scholar at the at the Ibn Rushd Centre for Excellence and Research, a lecturer at the Cambridge Muslim College, a senior instructor at the Whitethread Institute, and chair of the Islamic Literary Society.

Associate Editor: Mohamud Awil Mohamed

Mohamud Awil Mohamed is a Fontaine Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, pursuing a Ph.D. in History and Islamic Law with a focus on Islamic thought and history in the Horn of Africa, Hijaz and the wider Indian Ocean world. He holds a diploma in Islamic Studies from Abubakar As-Siddique's Institute for Islamic Studies, a BA in History from Augsburg University and an MA in Heritage Studies and Public History from the University of Minnesota.

He was a research fellow at Dar al-Hadith al-Hassania in Rabat, Morocco. He has continued to study with and receive ijazat from erudite scholars both in America and elsewhere in the Muslim world: in Somalia, Morocco, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. He was formerly resident Khateeb of Augsburg University and served as chaplain to the Muslim community at the University of Minnesota.

Associate Editor: Amir Abu Ghudda

Amir Abu Ghudda holds a BA in Political Science and a Certificate in Economics from the University of Regina, complemented by a JD from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. His legal training includes completing articles at a prestigious Canadian national firm, as well as serving as a clerk at the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal. Amir's professional experience also encompasses practicing as a litigator in Saskatchewan. Amir pursued extensive studies in the Islamic sciences in Türkiye under the guidance of renowned Syrian scholars in Ḥadīth and Fiqh, and he currently holds numerous Ijāzāt. Amir’s studies focus on Islamic legal history, Ḥadīth, and Fiqh. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies at Georgetown University.

Associate Editor: Ameen Omar

Ameen Omar is a Ph.D. student at Princeton, working on slavery and post-abolition in the Persian/Arabian Gulf from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. Prior to joining the program, Ameen spent time studying Turkish at İbn Haldun Üniversitesi. He holds a master's in History from George Washington and a second master's in Islamic Studies from Hamad Bin Khalifa. While studying in Doha, Ameen wrote his thesis on The Bin Jelmood House, described as the first slavery museum in the Middle East and North Africa.

Managing Editor: Abdul Hai

Abdul Hai is a passionate enthusiast of literature, adept in various roles within the realm of books: he's a devoted reader, skilled bookbinder, meticulous book restorer, and a leisure writer. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Social Science from Birkbeck, University of London, complemented by a certificate of higher education from the same institution. Presently, he's pursuing postgraduate studies at the University of Wolverhampton. Beyond academia, Abdul is the driving force behind the Islamic Literary Society, serving as its founder and project manager. Additionally, he assumes the role of editor for the 'Other Words Journal,' dedicated to fostering creative writing talent.