Advisory Board
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Professor Abdullah Saeed
Professor Saeed is an active researcher, focusing on one of the most important issues in Islamic thought: the negotiation of text and context, ijtihad and interpretation. He is a strong advocate of reform of Islamic thought and is frequently asked to present at events both nationally and internationally. He also participates in training courses on Islamic issues to community leaders and government agencies in Australia and abroad. Of particular interest, given the current climate, is the promotion of inter-religious initiatives. He regularly engages with the Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities at national and international symposia to enhance community understandings of Islam, Islamic thought and Muslim societies. He has authored and edited numerous works. His recent publications include Islamic Thought: an introduction , Routledge, 2006; Interpreting the Qur'an: Towards a Contemporary Approach , Routledge, 2006; Approaches to the Qur'an in Contemporary Indonesia (editor), Oxford University Press, 2005; Freedom of Religion, Apostasy and Islam (co-author) , Ashgate, 2004.; Islam in Australia , Allen & Unwin, 2003. In addition to his strong research focus, Professor Saeed continues to teach Islamic studies at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and supervise postgraduate students. Professor Saeed is the Foundation Chair of the Sultan of Oman Endowed Chair in Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne . He is Director of the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne and Director of the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies (in conjunction with Griffith University and the University of Western Sydney ). Further information is available at: www.abdullahsaeed.org
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Professor Tim Lindsey
Professor Tim Lindsey is an ARC Federation Fellow and Director of the Asian Law Centre, which he joined in 1990. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne Law School and completed his doctoral thesis in Indonesian studies. He teaches Indonesian Law, Malaysian Law and Islamic Law. He researches and teaches in bahasa Indonesia, is a member of the Board of the Australia-Indonesia Institute and is a practising member of the Victorian Bar. His publications include Indonesia: Law & Society (1999), Indonesia After Soeharto: Prospects for Reform (1999) and Law Reform in Developing and Transitional States (in press, 2005). He is currently working on ARC-funded projects relating to Islamic law in Indonesia (with M.B. Hooker) and in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. |
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Philip Flood
Philip Flood is the former Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and former Ambassador to Indonesia, High Commissioner to Bangladesh and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. He has also been Director-General of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and has conducted several public inquiries for government. Mr Flood is currently Deputy Chairman of CARE Australia.
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Professor Virginia HookerProfessor Virginia Hooker was Professor of Indonesian and Malay in the Faculty of Asian Studies, the Australian National University, Canberra until early 2007. Her research interests are Islam in Indonesia; instructional literature for Muslim women, and Islam and democratisation in Indonesia. She has secured several research grants for projects on the contemporary expression of Islam in Indonesia. Professor Hooker's publications include Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook (with Greg Fealy, 2006); Writing a New Society: Social Change Through the Novel in Malay (2000); Perceptions of the Haj: Five Malay Texts (with A.C. Milner, 1984); and Tuhfat al-Nafis Sejarah Melayu Islam (1991, reprinted as a Karya Agung in 1998). |
Dr Greg Fealy Greg Fealy holds a joint appointment as fellow and senior lecturer in Southeast Asian politics at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, and the Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra. His main research interests are Islam and post-independence Indonesian politics. He is currently studying Islamism in Indonesia as well as the impact of globalisation upon religio-political behaviour. He gained his PhD from Monash University in 1998 with a study of the history of Indonesia's largest Islamic party, recently published in Indonesian under the title Ijtihad Politik Ulama: Sejarah NU, 1952-1967. Dr Fealy is the co-author of Joining the Caravan? The Middle East, Islamism and Indonesia (2005), and Radical Islam and Terrorism in Indonesia (2005). He is also co-editor of Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook (2006); Nahdlatul Ulama, Traditionalism and Modernity in Indonesia (1995) and Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Decentralisation and Democratisation (2003). He was the C.V. Starr Visiting Professor in Indonesian Politics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC, in 2003. He has also worked as an Indonesia analyst at the Office of National Assessments and a consultant to AusAID, The Asia Foundation, USAID, the Lowy Institute, ASPI and Oxford Analytica.
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