Staff Directory
Academic Qualification
- Doctor of Philosophy - Doctor of Philosophy, Temple University, Philadelphia
Imtiaz Ahmed Shaukat Ali Yusuf (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)
Associate Professor
IIUM KL Campus
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT AND CIVILISATION
Other's position:
Coordinator, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation
Expert Profile
Dr. Imtiyaz Yusuf, is Associate Professor and Deputy Dean for Students Development and Community Engagement and also Coordinator, Islam and Buddhism Programme at The International Institute of Islamic Civilisation and Malay World (ISTAC-IIUM), Malaysia. Dr. Yusuf 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 also Muslim-Buddhist dialogue.
Dr. Yusuf 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.
Dr. Yusuf‘s most recent publications are: Multiculturalism in Asia: Peace and Harmony (2018); “The Nabi-Rasul in Arabian/Semitic Religious Tradition: Qur'anic Monotheism, Prophet Muhammad and the Shaping of Muslim World View” Islamic Studies 58 (4):December 2019 pp. 519-533; “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; “Nationalist Ethnicities as Religious Identities: Islam, Buddhism and Citizenship in Myanmar”, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 34:4 (2017) pp. 100-119); "Islam and Buddhism" in Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Interreligious Dialogue, Catherine Cornille (ed.) (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, Inc, 2013), pp. 360-375. Dr. Yusuf often writes on Islam and Buddhism relations and about religion related issues in Southeast Asia for the Bangkok Post and The Nation (Bangkok).
Area of Specialisation
- Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Religious Studies ~ Islamic Studies - Islam in Southeast Asia, Thailand, Muslim-Buddhist Relations
Teaching Responsibilities
| BASIC PHILOSOPHY AND ISLAMIC WORLDVIEW | 2021/2022 |
| BASIC PHILOSOPHYAND ISLAMIC WORLDVIEW | 2021/2022 |
| ISLAMIC REVIVALISM: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS | 2020/2021 |
| ISLAMIC REVIVALISM:CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS | 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 |
Research Projects
Completed
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On-Going
| 2020 - Present | Islam and Buddhism in Myanmar and Malaysia |
Publications
Article
| 2020 | A Muslim’s reflections on Saddharamapundariksutra: the Lotus Sutra. Buddhist-Christian Studies, 40 (Annual (2020)) pp. 79-104 |
| 2020 | Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba: a peacemaker for our time. Al-Shajarah, 25 (1) pp. 210-214 |
| 2019 | Book Review - Charles Fletcher. Muslim-Christian engagement in the twentieth century: the principles of Inter-faith dialogue and the work of Ismail al-Faruqi.(London: I. B. Tauris, 2015.). Islamic Studies, 58 (1) pp. 155-158 |
| 2019 | The nabi-rasul in Arabian/semitic religious tradition: Qur’anic monotheism, Prophet Muhammad and the shaping of Muslim world view. Islamic Studies, 58 (4) pp. 519-533 |
Conference or Workshop Item
| 2020 | A Muslim’s Reflections on Saddharamapundariksutra—The Lotus Sutra. In: 24th Annual International Lotus Sutra “Illuminating One Another in Dialogue: Interreligious Perspectives through the Prism of the Lotus Sutra”, |
| 2020 | Globalization and Islam-Buddhist relations in Nusantara. In: Islam, Globalization and Human Sustainability, |
| 2019 | Progressive Islam in the Asian context: need for building Islam and Buddhism relations. In: International Conference on Islamic Studies (ICIS), |
| 2019 | Strengthening Buddhist-Muslim Relations in Southeast Asia: Islam and Buddhism as unifying forces for peace and harmony in ASEAN region. In: International Buddhist Conference Indonesia: International Conference on Strengthening Buddhist-Muslim Relations in Southeast Asia, |
Book
| 2021 | Essential writings Ismail al Faruqi. Center for Islam in Contemporary World Shenandoah University, ISBN: 9789670526928 |
| 2019 | Perjumpaan Islam & Buddhisme. Kertarajasa Buddhist College, Batu Malang, Indonesia. (2020), ISBN: 9786239200008 |
Book Section
| 2022 | Muslims as Thailand’s largest religious minority. In: Routledge, ISBN: 9780367225377, pp. 234-249 |
| 2021 | Building Muslim-Buddhist understanding: the parallels of Taqwa/Allah consciousness in the Qur'an and satipatthana/mindfulness in Anapanasati Sutta. In: Oxford University Press, ISBN: 978-0-19-005415-1, pp. 173-190 |
| 2021 | Islamic theology of religious pluralism: building Islam-Buddhism understanding. In: Springer, Cham, ISBN: 978-3-030-66088-8, pp. 210-219 |