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Profile Associate Professor Syed Khairuddin Aljunied http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/mlsasmk/

Dr Khairudin Aljunied is a tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore. He specializes on the history of Islam in Southeast Asia, covering topics such as the Muslim networks, social movements, intellectual currents and minorities within and beyond the region. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees at the National University of Singapore and completed his PhD within two years at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. In late 2013, he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Columbia University, New York.

Dr Khairudin is currently working on three research projects. The first is a study of a renowned Southeast Asian scholar, Hamka, and his ideas on reforming Islam in the Malay World. The second project explores cosmopolitanism as a framework of thought and action among Muslims in Southeast Asia. The third project is a collaborative study on Malay-Singaporean diaspora in Melbourne, London, Dubai and Toronto.

Dr Khairudin welcome postgraduate students to work with him on any topics relating to Islam and other religious faiths in Southeast Asia, with a view of comparing the experiences of communities here with other groups in Asian and non-Asian societies.