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AHMED IBRAHIM ABUSHOUK (PHD)

Professor of History

Department of Humanities

Qatar University

P.O. Box 2713, Doha, Qatar

Tel: 974- 44034745

[email protected]

[email protected]

EDUCATION

1994-1998 : PhD. History, University of Bergen, Norway.

1989-1991 : M.Phil. History, University of Bergen, Norway.

1987-1987 : MA. (Part I), History and Islamic Civilization, Omdurman

Islamic University, Sudan.

1984-1988 : BLL. Law, University of Cairo, Khartoum, Sudan.

1982-1986 : BA. History, University of Khartoum, Sudan.

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1994 : Legal Profession Examination Certificate (Bar), Ministry of

Justice and Attorney General, Sudan.

1989,1992 : Training Courses in Computer Programming and

Information Processing, University of Bergen, and Apple

Training Centre (ATC), Khartoum.

1987 : Administrative Officers Orientation Programme, Sudan

Academy for Administrative Sciences, Khartoum, Sudan.

LANGUAGES

: Arabic (mother tongue)

: English

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2013-present : Academic Coordinator, Humanities Department

mailto:[email protected]

Curriculum Vitae: Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk

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2012- Present : Professor of Modern and Contemporary History,

Department of Humanities, Qatar University.

2010-2102 : Director, International Institute for Muslim Unity, IIUM

2007- 2010 : Deputy Dean (Research and Postgraduate), Kulliyyah of

Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences.

2004-2007 : Head, Department of History and Civilization.

2006 : Professor, Department of History and Civilization,

International Islamic University Malaysia.

2002-2006 : Associate Professor, Department of History and Civilization,


1999-2002 : Assistant Professor, Department of History and Civilization,


1999 (January-September) : Adjunct Associate Professor, Section for Middle Eastern

and African Studies, University of Bergen, Norway.

1997-1998 : Research Fellow, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic

Studies, University of Bergen, Norway.

1998 (September-

October)

: Guest Researcher, the International Institute for Asian

Studies, University of Leiden, the Netherlands (Holland).

1998 (August-September) : Guest Researcher, the Institute of Theology, University of

Lund, Sweden.

1992-1994 : Archivist, the National Records Office, Khartoum, Sudan.

1991-1992 : Research Fellow, Section for Middle Eastern and African

Studies, University of Bergen.

1987-1989 : Administrative Officer, Ministry of Local Government,

Sudan.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Books (Total no. 19)

2012 : Al-Sudan: Al-Sultat wa al-Turath [Sudan: Power and

Heritage], Part IV, Omdurman: Abd El-Karim Mirghani

Cultural Centre.

2012 : Al-Intikhabat al-Qamiyya li sanat 2010 fi al-Sudan: Dirasah

Tahliliyya [National Elections of 2010 in Sudan: An Analytical

Study], Doha: Al-Jazeera Centre for Studies.



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Heritage], Part III, Omdurman: Abd El-Karim Mirghani

Cultural Centre.

2009 : KIRKHS Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts, 2003-2007, Kuala

Lumpur: Research Management Centre, IIUM.

2009 : Higher Education in the Muslim World: Administration –

Curriculum- Comprehensive Excellence (Co-editor: Prof.

Hassan Ibrahim), Kuala Lumpur: Research Management

Centre, IIUM.

2009 : The Hadhrami Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Identity

Maintenance or Assimilation? (Co-editor: Prof. Hassan

Ahmed Ibrahim), Leiden: E.J. Brill.


Heritage], Part II, Omdurman: Abd El-Karim Mirghani

Cultural Centre.

2008 : Al-Intikhabat al-Barlamaniyya, 193-1986: Muqarabah

Tarikhiyyat-Tahliliyah [Sudanese Parliamentary Elections,

1953-1986: A Historical and Analytical Study], (with Prof.

Fatih Abdel Salem) Omdurman: Abd El-Karim Mirghani

Cultural Centre.


Heritage], Part I, Omdurman: Abd El-Karim Mirghani

Cultural Centre

2006 : Al-Athar al-Kamilah li Mujalat al-Manar Ñan Janub Sharq

Asia [the Complete Works of al-Manar Magazine in

Southeast Asia], ed., 2 volumes, Research Centre, IIUM.

2004 : Principles of Native Administration in the Anglo-Egyptian

Sudan (eds. with Prof. Anders Bjorkelo), Bergen: Bergen

University: Centre Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies/

Omdurman: Cultural Centre of Abd al-Karim Mirghani.

2004 : Mudhkirat Yusuf Mikha’il [Memoirs of Yusuf Mikha’il], (ed.)

Omdurman: Cultural Centre of Abd al-Karim Mirghani

2003 : Ibn Khaldun and Muslim Historiography, (ed.), Research

Centre, IIUM.

2002 : The British Documents on the Sudan 1940-1956: Local


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Government in the Sudan, (ed. And trans into Arabic), vol.

4, Beirut: Riyad al-Rays.

2000 : Tarakh Harakat al-Irshad wa shaykh al-Irshidiyyin Ahmad

Muahmmad al-Surkitti fi Indunisia 1876-1943 [A History of

IÎlaÍ and Irshad Movement and shaykh of the Irshadis

Ahmad Muhammad al-Surkitti in Indonesia, 1876-1943],

ed., Kuala Lumpur: Research Centre (IIUM) and Dar al-Fajr

Publishing House, (pp. xxvi+586).

1999 : Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Salim: Muhqiqan wa Muarikhan

[Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Salim: An Editor and Historian]

Omdurman: Cultural Centre of Abd al-Karim Mirghani.

1997 : Public Records of Kassala Province, 1898-1966, (with Wafa

M. Osman and others), Cairo: Centre d' etudes et de

documentation, economique, juridique et sociales.

1996 : The Public Treasury of the Muslims. Monthly Budgets of the

Mahdist State in the Sudan, 1897, (with Dr. Anders

Bjorkelo), Leiden: E.J. Brill.

2. Articles in international refereed Journals-(*) for ISI/ SCOPUS- (Total no. 24)

2011 : “An African Scholar in the Diaspora: Ahmad al-Surkitti: His

life and Reforms in the Netherlands East Indies”, Islamic

Africa, a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, academic journal,

Northwestern University Press, vol. 2, 23-50.

2010 : “The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: From Collaboration Mechanism

to Party Politics, 1898-0956”, Journal of Imperial and

Commonwealth History, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 207-236. (*)

2009 : “The Ideology of the Expected Mahdi in Muslim History: The

Case of the Sudanese Mahdiyyah, 1881-1898, The Pakistan

Journal of History and Culture, vol. xxx, no.1., pp. 43-60.

2007 : “Al-Manar and the Hadhrami elites in the Malay World:

Challenges and Prospects”, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic

Society, Cambridge University Press, 2007, vol. 17/3, 301-

322. (*)

2006 : “Globalization and Muslim Identity: Challenges and


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Prospects, The Muslim World, Quarterly Journal published

Macdonald Center and Blackwell Publishing Company (USA),

vol. 96, pp. 487-506. (*)

2006 : “Ideology Versus Pragmatism: The Public Treasury of the

Mahdist State in the Sudan, 1881-0898:”, International

Journal for the Study of Modern Islam, Academic Publishers:

Brill (The Netherlands), vol. 46/2, pp.148-167. (*)

2006 : “Al-Manar fi Janub Sharq Asya: Tawasul Thaqafi wa

Ta’thirahu al-Fkri”, [“Al-Manar in Southeast Asia: Cultural

Interaction and Intellectual Impact”], Mujallat al-Tarakh al-

Arabi, the Association of Moroccan Historians, (Morocco),

vol. 38, pp. 13-58.

2005 : “Al-Tawasul al-Hadari bayn al-Hijaz wa Alm al-Malayu:

Rihlat alHajj Abdul Majid Zainuddin Manudhajan”,

[“Civilizational Interaction between the Hijaz and the Malay

World: The case of al-Hajj Abdul Majid Zainuddin”], Al-

Darah Journal, King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and

Archives, Riyadh, vol. vi, pp. 125-174.

2005 : “Al-Huwiyat al-Islamiyyat fi dhill Al-Awlamat al-Wadiyyat al-

Muasirah”, [“Islamic Identity under the Shadow of the

Contemporary Positive Globalization”], Journal of al-Tajdid,

A Refereed Arabic Biannual, International Islamic University

Malaysia, vol. 18, pp. 71-100.

2005 : “Qira´h Tahlilih fi Kitab Ustaz al-Ajyal Abd al-Rahman Ali

Taha bayn al-Ta‘lam wa Siyasa wa Arbaji, 1901-0969” [“An

Analytical Reading in the Book: Abd al-Rahman Ali Taha

between Education, Politics and Arabji”] Mujallata al-Tarikh

al-Arabi, the Association of Moroccan Historians, (Morocco)

vol. 34, pp. 25-52.

2004 : “Al-Tafssr al-Islami lil al-Tarikh: al-Muswighat wa Itruat wa

al-Ishkalat al-Manhjiyya” [“Islamic Interpretation of History:

Motives, Theses, and Methodological Problems”], Journal of

Islamiyat al-Marifah, A Refereed Arabic Quarterly published

the International Institute of Islamic Thought, (USA), vol.


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37/38, pp. 129-154

2003 : “Niyat al-Tarikh wa al-Insan al-Akhir fi al-Fikr al-Gharbi [The

End of History and the Last Man in Western Thought]",

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of

the United Arab Emirates, vol. 19, no. 2.

2003 : “Al-Arab wa Islam fi Janub Sharq Asia: Qira´t Tarikhiyya fi

Masadir al-Turath al-Islami wa al-Adabiyyat al-Muasirah”

["Arabs and Islam in Southeast Asia: A Historical Reading in

Islamic Heritage and Contemporary Literatures"], Arab

Journal of the Humanities, A Quarterly Refereed Journal,

Kuwait University, (Kuwait) vol. 81, 41-80

2002 : “Al-Sulta fi al-Islam: al-Aql al-Fiqhi al-Salafi bayn al-Nas wa

Tarikh” [Power in Islam: The Salafi Fiqh between the

Revealed Text and History], Tajdid: A Refereed Arabic

Journal published by the International Islamic University

Malaysia, vol., 11, (pp. 215-238).

2001 : “Ilm al-Tarikh: Ishkaliyat Manhajiyyat wa mashru’at al-

Islamah” [Historiography: Problems of Methodology and

Proposals on Islamization], Islamiyat al-Marifa: A Refereed

Arabic Quarterly Published by the International Institute of

Islamic Thought, vol. vi, No. 24, 2001, (pp. 55-89).

2001 : “A Sudanese Scholar in the Diaspora: Life and Career of

Ahmad Muhammad al-Surkitti in Indonesia, 1911-0943”,

Studia Islamka, A Journal of Indonesian Studies, pp. 55-86.

2001 : “al-Shaykh Ahmad Muhammad Surkitti (1876-19430): Rai´d

Harakat al-Ialah wa al-Irshad fi Indunisia” [A-Shaykh Ahmad

Muhammad al-Surkitti: The Pioneer of the Reform and

Guidance Movement in Indonesia]”, Tajdid, vol., (pp. 117-

146).

1999 : “A Bibliography of the Mahdist State in the Sudan (0880-

1898), Sudanic Africa: A Journal of African Resources, vol.

10, pp.133-168.

1998 : “The Musabbaat of Jugo Jugo: Three Documents”, Sudanic

Africa: Sudanic Africa: A Journal of African Resources, vol.


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10, pp. 49-64.

1997 : "A Sudanese Missionary to the United State: Sati Majid,

shaykh al-Islam of North America, and his encounter with

Noble Drew Ali, Prophet of the Morrish Science Temple

Movement" (with Profs. J.O. Hunwick and R.S. O'Fahey),

Sudanic Africa, A Journal of Historical Sources, vol. 8, 1997,

(pp.137-191).

1997 : "Governor of Kordofan, 1821-1955", Sudanic Africa: Sudanic

Africa: A Journal of African Resources, vol. 8, 1997, (pp. 67-

83).

1992 : "A Sudanic Charter from Sinnar", (with Dr. Anders Bjorkelo),

Sudanic Africa, A Journal of Historical Sources , vol. 3, 1993,

(pp.29-40).

1991 : "A Land Dispute in Berber Province", (with Dr. Anders

Bjorkelo), Sudanic Africa, A Journal of Historical Sources, vol.

3, (pp.1-28).

3. Articles in local refereed Journals and Magazines (Total no. 9)

2009 : “The Hijaz Railway: Motives, Results and Impacts”, Islam in

Asia, vol. 6/1, pp. 1-28

2007 : "Salatin Darfur wa Surat al-Haramin al-Sharifin [Sultans of

Darfur and the Present of the Two Holy Places", Kitabat

Sudaniyya, vol. 42, 81-101

2003 : “Muslim Unity: Lessons from History”, International Journal

of Muslim Unity, vol. 1., pp. 1-20.

2003 : "Al-Awlamah bayn Nihayat al-Tarikh was Aira al-Hadarat

[Globalization between the End of History and the Clash of

Civilization]", Tafakur, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 83-126.

2003 : "Al-Tawasul al-Hadari bayn Makkah was Alm al-Malayu [The

Civilization Interaction between Makkah and the Malay

World]", Hajj Magazine, issue 8, pp. 78-81.

1999 : “Manhajiyyat al-Tashria al-Mahdawi fi al-Sudan [The Legal

Methodology of the Mahdist in the Sudan]”, Kitabat

Sudaniyya, Cairo: Centre for Sudanese Studies, Issue no. 7,


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(pp. 10-30).

1994 : "Al-Idarah al-Ahliyya: al-Rai wa Rai al-Akhar [Native

Administration and Conflict of Visions]", Majallat al-

Khurtum, Issue no. 13, (pp. 31-39).

1994 : "Al-Idarah al-Ahliyya: al-Nasha´t wa al-Tatawwur: [Native

Administration: Establishment and Development]", Majallat

al-Khurtum, Issue no. 13, (pp. 33-40).

1993 : "Sati Majid al-ladhi aSbaha shaykhan li-Islam fi Amarica al-

Shimaliyya [Sati Majid: shaykh al-Islam of North America]",

Majallat al-Multaqah, August, (pp.14).

4. Chapters in Books (Total no. 8)

2011 : “Negative Image of Islamic Resurgence in the West: Myth or

Reality?”, in: A. Rahman Tang Abdullah, ed., Tradition,

Modernity and Islam: Revisiting History Across the Regions

in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, Kuala Lumpur:

IIUM Press, 2011, pp. 193-212.

2009 : “Al-Manar and the Hadhrami elites in the Malay World:

Challenges and Prospects”, in: The Hadhrami Diaspora in

Southeast Asia: Identity Maintenance or Assimilation? (Co-

editor: Prof. Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim), Leiden: E.J. Brill pp.

117-142.

2008 : "World History from an Islamic Perspective: The Experience

of the International Islamic University Malaysia", in Patrick

Manning, ed., Global Practice in World History: Advances

Worldwide, Markus Wiener Publishers, pp. 39-55

2004 : “Islamic Resurgence Indonesia: The Case of the Irshad and

Islah Movement, 1914-0943”, Proceedings of the 17th

International Conference of the International Association of

Historians of Asia, Dhakah, pp. 811-828.

2002 : “Native Courts: A Case Study from Dar Bidayriyya in Sudan”,

in: Christina Jones-Pauly and Stefanie Elbern, eds., Access to

Justice: The Role of Court Administrators and Lay

Adjudicators, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, pp. 75-


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98.

2002 : "An Arabic Manuscript on the Life and Career of Ahmed

Muhammad Surkitti and his Disciples in Java", in: Huub de

Jones and Nic Kaptein, eds., Transcending Borders: Arabs,

Politics, trade and Islam in Southeast Asia, Leiden: KITLV

Press, pp. 203-218.

1998 : "Kordofan from Tribes to Nazirates", in: M. Kevane and E.

Stiansen, eds., Kordofan Invaded: Peripheral Incoporation

and Social Transformation in Islamic Africa, Leiden: E.J. Brill,

pp.120-44.

5. Bookreviews and conference reports (Total no. 12)

2013 : Sessetion of South Sudan: Challenges and Prospects. (Arab Centre for Research and Policies Study, Arab policies, issue 2, May 2013, pp.

2013 : The Hadrami Diaspora: Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim. By Leif Manger (Oxford and New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2010), 216 pp. Price HB £35.00. EAN 978–1845457426. American Anthropologist Book Reviews.

2012 : Holy City on the Nile: Omdurman during the Mahdiyya, 1885–1898, by Robert S. Kramer’s Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers. Pp.xx+214. No price given, hardback/paperback (ISBN 978-1-55876-515-3), Islamic Africa, vol. 3/1.

2009 : Narrating the Nile: Politics, Cultures, Identities. Edited by

Israel Gershoni and Meir Hatina. Boulder, CO and London:

Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008. Pp. viii+275, The Journal of

African History, 50: pp. 456-457. (*)

2009 : Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration

in Eastern Sudan (Series - Women in Africa and the

Diaspora), by Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Wisconsin: University of

Wisconsin Press, 2007, (ISBN. 0299223809), Kitabat

Sudaniyya, Issue no. 46, pp. 101-116.

2005 : “International Conference on the Yemeni-Hadhramis in

Southeast Asia: Identity Maintenance or Assimilation?”,

Intellectual Discourse, vol. 13, no. 2, 2005, pp. 138-141.

2005 : “International Conference on the Yemeni-Hadramis in

Southeast Asia: Identity Maintenance or Assimilation?”, Al-

Tajdid vol. 18, pp. 225-233.


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2003 : “Southern Sudan: Stages of Distrust” by Mahmoud

Galandar, al-Tajdid, vol. pp. 263-282.

2003 : “Seminar on Ibn Khaldun and Muslim Historiography”,

Intellectual Discourse, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 238-241.

: “Palestine Issue: Its Background and Development up

2111”, by Mohsen M. Saleh, Intellectual Discourse, vol. 10,

No. 1, pp. 98-101.

2003 : “Shah Wali Allah al-Dihlawi and his Contribution to Islamic

Thought”, Dirasat al-Islamiyya, vol. 38, pp. 201-207.

2001 : Mohsen M. Salih, al-Tariq ila al-Qudus [The Way to

Jerusalem], London: Publication of Palestine, 1998, (pp.

234), al-Tajdid Journal: International Islamic University of

Malaysia, vol. 10, pp. 231-248.

1999 : Fadwa Abd al-Rahman Ali Taha, Kayfa Nal al-Sudan

Istiqlalahu: Dirasa Tarikhiyya li Itifaqiyat 12 Fabrayir 1953

Hwl al-Hukum al-Dhati wa Taqrir al-Masir [How did the

Sudan Obtain its Independence: A Historical Study of the

Agreement of February 1953 on Self-government and

Determination in the Sudan], Khartoum: Dar al-Khartoum

for Printing and Publication, 1997, (pp. 455), Khartoum

Newspaper, issues 2212, 2219, 14, 21 September 1999.

1999 : Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim, Al-Imam Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi,

Omdurman: al-Ahfad University, 1998, (pp.158), Khartoum

Newspaper, issues 2098, 2105, 4, 5 May.

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS (Total no. 33)

2013 (26-29 June) : “The Hadrami Diaspora in Southeast Asia: A link of interaction

between the Homeland and Host countries” The World History

Association 22nd

Annual Conference in Minneapolis, USA.

2013 (11-13 February) “Hadrami Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Historical Legacy and

Challenges”. International Conference on the Historical

Legacy of Asianization, Centre for the Advanced Study of

the Arab World, Durham University, United Kingdom.

2012 (20-22 October) “Muslim Identity and Globalization: Dialectic of


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Fundamental and Change.”, 13th Makkah Conference on

Muslim Society: Fundamental and Change, Makkah,

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

2012 (26-28 April) “The Coverage of the Arab Uprisings by Newsweek and

Time Magazines: A Content Analysis”. The Second Congress

of the Asian Association of World Historians, Ewha Women

University, Seoul, Korea.

2011, (19-21 July) “An African Scholar in the Diaspora: Ahmed al-Surkitti, his

life and Islamic Reform in the Netherlands East Indies”.

International conference on Islam Africa: Intellectual

Trends, Historical Sources and Research Methods,

International Islamic University Malaysia and the Federation

of Universities of the Islamic World (FUIW) and the Islamic

Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO),

Kuala Lumpur.

2011 (7-10 July) “Teaching World History in Middle East Universities:

Challenges and Prospects” International Conference of the

World History Association, Beijing

2010 (22-25 August) “World Views and World History”, The XXI International

Congress of Historical Sciences, Amsterdam.

2010 (19-23 July) : “Shaykh Ahmad Surkitti (0876-1943): His Life, Thoughts and

Reforms in the Netherlands East Indies”, 2010 – World

Congress of Middle Eastern Studies, Barcelona.

2009 (19 November) : “The History of Parlimentary Elections in the Sudan, 1953-

0986: Pros and Cons”, Public Lecture, Centre for Middle

Eastern Studies, University Bergen, Norway.

2009 (12 November) : “Ahmad Surkitti (0876-1943): His Life, Thought and Reform

in Indonesia”, Seminar, Centre for Modern and Oriental

Studies, Berlin.

2009 (7 August) “The Hajj in the Malay World: Historical Dimension and

Civilizational Impact”, The Workshop on the Documentation

of the Hajj to Makkah in Southeast Asia, Kualliyyah of

Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences and the


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King Abdul Aziz Foundation for Archives and Research.

2009 (29-31 May) : “Islam and Modernity in Indonesia: The Life and Thought of

Ahmad Surkitti (1876-1943)”, The First Congress: The Asian

Association of World Historians, Osaka University

Nakanoshima-Center.

2008 (26-29 June) : "Centrality of Makkah and Moblity of Knowledge: The Case

of Ahmad Muhammad Surkitti in Indonesia", The 17th

Conference of the International Association of Wrold

History, London University.

2007 (16-18 April) : "Dailgue or Clash of Civilization? An Anylatical Reading in

Western Thought", (in Arabic), Dailgue with the other in

Islamic Thoughts, the University of Sharajah.

2006 (22-24 November) : “The Negative Image of Islamic Resurgence in the West:

Myth or Reality”, The 19th Conference of the International

Association of Historians of Asia: Asia: History and

Civilization, The Philippine Social Science Council, Manila.

2006 (5-7 September) : “Islam and the West”, The International Conference on the

Muslim World and the West: Barriers and Bridges,

organized by the International Institute of Muslim Unity,


2006 (4-6 April) : “The Sudan from Collaboration Mechanim and Party

Politics, 1898-1956: The Case of the Socialist Repubication

Party”, 7th International Sudan Studies Conference: Fifty

Years After Independence: Sudan’s Quest for Peace and

Stability, University of Bergen.

2005 (26-28 August) : “Al-Manar and the Hadarmi Elite in the Malay-Indonesian

World: Challenge and Response”, International Conference

on the Yemen-Hadarmis in Southeast Asia: Identity

Maintenance or Assimilation?, Department of History,


2005 (26-26 June) : “The Ideology of the Expected Mahdi in Muslim History: The

Case of the Sudanese Mahdiyya”, The 14th Annual World

History Association Conference, Ifrane, Morocco.

2005 (22 September) : “Research: Problems, Prospects and Reward, Ta’aruf and


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Intellectual Discourse (TIDE 26), IIUM.

2005 (5 April) : “Research: Problems, Prospects and Reward, Ta’aruf and

Intellectual Discourse (TIDE 25), IIUM.

2004 (4-6 August) : “Globalization and Muslim Identity: Critical Reality and

Future Prospects”, International Conference on Muslims

and Islam in the 21st Century: Image and Reality, organized

by International Islamic University.

2003 (24-26 October) : “Civilizational Interaction between the Arabian Peninsula

and the Malay World”, Conference on Religious Networks

between the Middle East and Southeast Asia, organized by

International Institute for Asian Studies Leiden (the

Netherlands) and American University, Cairo (Egypt).

2002 (1-2 October) : “Muslim Unity: Lesson from the Past and Challenges from

the Present”, International Conference on Muslim Unity in

the 21st Century: Opportunities and Challenges, organized

the International Institute for Muslim Unity (IIUM).

2003 (18 July) : “Political Crises of the Ummah: Historical Legacy and

Present Reality”, The Islamic Conference of Ummatic Week,

IIUM.

2003 (27 May) : "Arabian Peninsula and Malay Archipelago: From

Commercial Adventures to Socio-political and Cultural

Interaction", The Indian Ocean Seminar, Bergen University

(Norway).

2003 (22-23 March) : "Globalization between the End of History and the Clash of

Civilizations", The International Conference of the College

of Humanities and Social Sciences: Globalism: Reaction

and Interaction, The University of the United Arab Emirates.

2002 (18-22 December) : "Islamic Resurgence in Indonesia: The Case of Islah and

Irshad Movement, 1911-1943", The 17th Conference of the

International Association of Historians of Asia: Asia:

History and Civilization, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2001 (3-7 October) : “Power of Knowledge and Conflict of Visions: The Case of

the Irshadis and the Alawi Sayyids in Indonesia”, The Indian

Ocean Project Seminar: “Hadrami Diaspora: Migration of


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People, Commodities and Ideas”, The University Bergen,

Norway.

2001 (20 February) : “Ahmad Muhammad Surkitti and his Reformist

Contributions in Indonesia”, Seminar on the Reformist and

Intellectual Role of the Malay Scholars in South East Asian,

Department of the Quran and Sunna, International Islamic

University Malaysia.

2000 (29 Augt. 2 Sept) : “A Sudanese Scholar in the Diaspora: Life and Career of

Ahmad Muhammad al-Surkitti in Indonesia, 1911-0943”,

The 5th International Conference on Sudan Studies,

Department of History, University of Durham (UK).

2000 (4-6 August) : “Ilm al-Tarikh: Ishkaliyat Manhajiyyat wa mashruat al-

Islamah”, The International Conference on Islamization of

Sciences, Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and

Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia.

1998 (11-14 June) : "Ideology Versus Pragmatism: The Case of the Bayt al-Mal

of the Mahdist State in the Sudan, 1881-0898”, Conference

on "Financial Institutions in the Political Economy: Case

Studies from Pre-colonial, Colonial and Post-colonial Africa",

convened by The Nordic African Institute, Uppsala,

Sweden, held at Rosendal, Norway.

1997 (27-29 August) : "Problems of Local Government in the Sudan", PhD Seminar

on "Administrative Systems in Africa", convened by the

Department of Administration and Organization Theory,

University of Bergen.

1997 (27-31 March) : "Dilemma of Indirect Rule and Democracy in the Sudan",

PhD Seminar on "the Political Economic of Local Change:

Challenges of Political and Economic Liberalization for the

Interaction of Local Administration and Civil Society in the

Third World", convened by the University of Helsinki

(Finland).

1996 (27-31 November) : "Kordofan from Tribes to Nazirates", The 38th Annual

Meeting of the African Studies Association, San Francisco.

1995 (24-27 October) : "The Legal Methodology of the Mahdist Legislation in the


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Sudan, 1881-1885", The Conference of Sufi Studies in the

Sudan, convened by the University of Khartoum.

ACADEMIC CONSULTANCY

2012-2013 : Independent Expert, New Eurasia Foundation, Germany.

2009-2014 : The Encyclopedia of the Hajj and the Two Holy Mosques

Project, sponsored by the King Abdul Aziz Foundation of

Research and Archives, Riyadh.

2005-2007 : Encyclopedia of Arab and Muslim Scholars sponsored by

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific

Organization (ALECSO). My contribution includes 13

biographies of Arab and Muslim Scholars from Southeast

and Central Asia.

2003-2005 : Animated Feature Film Saladin, sponsored by Multimedia

Super Corridor: Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn.

Bhrd (Cyberjaya: Malaysia).

2005-2006 : A Taxonomy on Islamic History and Civilization Literatures,

Sponsored by The Main Library, International Islamic

University Malaysia.

RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2013-2014 : The Image of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud in al-Manar Magazine,

University Grant, Qatar University.

2009-2011 : Al-Shaykh Ahmad Surkitti, 1876-1943: His Life, Thought and

Reform in Indonesia, Georg Foster Fellowship (6 months) for

Experienced Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin,

Germany.

2007-2010 : "Islah and Tajdid: The Concepts and their Application in Pre-

Modern and Modern Times", Researcher, Fundamental

Research Grant Scheme (FGRS).

2006-2007 : The Negative Image of Islamic Resurgence in the West:

Myth or Reality? Endowment Grant Type A., Research

Management Centre, IIUM.

2006-2007 : World History from an Islamic Perspective: The Experiment


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of the International Islamic University Malaysia,

Endowment Grant Type A., Research Management Centre,

IIUM.

2004-2005 : The Image of al-Manar in Southeast Asia, 1898-1935,

Endowment Grant Type A., Research Management Centre,

IIUM.

2003-2004 : Civilizational Interaction between the Middle East and

Southeast Asia: A Historical Survey, Endowment Grant Type

A., Research Management Centre, IIUM.

2000-2001 : Muslim Unity: Lessons from History, Endowment Grant Type

A., Research Management Centre, IIUM.

2000-2001 : Ideology versus Pragmatism: The Case of the Mahdist Public

Treasury, Endowment Grant Type A., Research

Management Centre, IIUM.

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2010 : Outstanding Researcher Award (Kulliyyah Level), Quality

Day, 2010, International Islamic University Malaysia.

2009 : George Foster Fellowship for Experienced Researchers,

Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin, Germany, 2009-2012.

2007 : Outstanding Researcher Award (Kulliyyah Level), Quality

Day, 2007, International Islamic University Malaysia.

2005 : Promising Researcher Award (University Level), Quality

Day 2005, International Islamic University Malaysia.

2005 Best Teacher of the Deparmtent of History and Civilization.

2003 Best Teacher of the Deparmtent of History and Civilization.

1998 (Sept-October) : Post-doctoral Fellowship, the University of Leiden, the

Netherlands.

1995-1997 : Norwegian Universities' Committee for Development

Research and Education Fellowship for PhD Research

Programme at the University of Bergen.

1994-1995 : Sudan Programme Fellowship for PhD Research Programme

at the University of Bergen.


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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

: Member of The Network of World and Global History Organizations (NOGWHISTO).

Member of The Board of Directors of the Asian Association

of World Historian (AAWH).

: Member of The European Network in Universal and Global

History (ENIUGH)

: Member of the International Association of World History

(AWH).

: Member of the African Studies Association (ASA).

: Member of the Nordic African Institute (NAI), Uppsala,

Sweden.

: Member of the International Institute of Asian Studies

(IIAS), Leiden, the Netherlands.

: Member of the Sudanese Studies Association (SSA).

CONFERENCE CHAIRS/CONVENERS

2012 (1st March) : International Seminar on Interfaith Harmony and

Tolerance organized jointed by between the International

Institute for Muslim Unity (IIMU), on behalf of the

International Islamic University Malaysia, and Madinu

Saquafathil Islamiyya (MSI) Kerala, India

2011 (19-21 July) : Islam in Africa: Historical, Cultural, and Global

Perspectives organized jointly by the International

Institute for Muslim Unity, the International Institute of

Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)], the Federation of

Universities of the Islamic World (FUIW) and the Islamic

Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO).

2011 (18 July) : “Islamic Moderation and it Role in Reform and

Development organized jointed by the International

Institute for Muslim Unity (IIMU) and the International

Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)],

International Forum of Moderation (Jordan).

2009 (7-8 August) : Regional workshop on the Documentation of the Hajj to


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Makkah in Southeast Asia, organized by Kulliyyah of Islamic

Revealed Knowledge and the King Abdul Aziz Foundation for

Research and Archives.

2005 (26-28 August) : International Conference on the Yemen-Hadarmis in

Southeast Asia: Identity Maintenance or Assimilation?

Department of History, International Islamic University

Malaysia.

2003 (23 July) : A One-Day Seminar on Ibn Khaldun and Muslim

Historiography, Department of History and Civilization,


2003 (25 February) : A One-Day Seminar on Shah Wali Allah al-Dihlawi (1703-

1762): His Life and Intellectual Contributions to the Muslim

Wrold, Department of History and Civilization, International

Islamic University Malaysia.

MEMBERSHIP OF EDITORIAL BOARDS AND ACADEMIC COMMITTEES

2102-2013 : Member of the Core Curriculum Coordination Council,

Qatar University.

2012-2013 : Member of the CAS Student Affairs Committee, College of

Arts and Sciences, Qatar University.

2012- : Chair of the Curriculum and Assurance Committee,

Department of Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences,

Qatar University.

2012 : Member of the Promotion Committee, College of Arts and

Sciences, Qatar University.

2010- 2012 : Editor of the International Journal of Muslim Unity.

2004- present : Member of the Editorial Board of al-Tajdid Journal.

2007- 2012 : Member of the Academic Planning and Development

Committee (Standing Senate Committee).

2007-2010 : Member of the Kulliyyah Board of Examiners and Appeals.

2007-2012 : Member of the Kulliyyah Postgraduate Committee.

2007-2012 : Member of the Kulliyyah Promotion Committee.

2004-2012 : Member of the Departmental Postgraduate Committee.

2003- 2012 : Member of the Departmental Examination Committee.


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2003-2012 : Member of the Departmental Promotion and Rucuriument

Committee.

2005-2012 : Board of Studies, Deparmtent of History and Civilization.

2000-2003 : Coordinator of the Ibn Khaldun Forum, Department of

History and Civilization.

2004-2007 : Coordinator of the Departmental Curriculum Committee.

SUPERVISION, EXAMINATION AND ACADEMIC ASSESSMENT

1. Supervisor

Student

Title

Degree

: Sharifah Bint Ismail

Thesis’s Title “The Hajj from Malaysia: Its Development, Management

and Impact on the Malay Society, 1975-2005”

Degree Ph.D., history and civilization (in progress).

Student

Title

Degree

: Muhammad Ba Zayb

"Sayyid Alawi bin Tahir al-Hadid: His Life and Works"

Ph.D., history and civilization (in progress).

Student

Title

Degree

: Abebiyi Jellili Adegboyega

"Implicating the Umayyad-Abbasid Phenomenological

Transformation in Addressing the Ummah’s Woes in the

Contemporary Period"

MA., history and civilization (Completed, 2009)

Student

Title

Degree

: Alwi Altas (MA)

"Islamic Reformism in the Netherlands East Indies: The Role

and Thought of Abd Allah b. Alawi B. Abd Allah Al-Attas,

1844-0929”

MA., history and civilization (Completed, 2007).

Student

Title

Degree

: Sharifah binte Islmail

“The Hajj: It Historical Experience and impact in Southeast

Asia”.

MA., history and civilization (Completed, 2006).

Student

Title

: Mirja Maritha Brachtel @ Maryam

“Ibn al-Jazzar’s al-Musafir and Constantinus Africanus’ Latin

Version, Viaticum Peregerinatis: A comparative Study”

MA., history and civilization (Completed, 2005)


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Degree

2. Examiners of MA and Ph.D. Theses

Student : Abdullahi Ayoade Ahmad (AHA070008)

Title : “African Leaders, Colonialism and the Role of the United

Nations in the Post-Colonial Era: A Historical Perspective on

Ghana and Nigeria, 1957-2111”

Degree : Ph.D. in history, Department of History, University of

Malaya (UM), 2012.

Student : Muhammad Atiyya Muhammad Yahia

Title : “Social History and Ottoman Influence on Western Tripoli in

the Era of the Second Ottomans”

Degree : Ph.D. in Islamic Studies, National University Malaysia

(UKM), 2012.

Student : Ibtisam Abdullah alhari

Title “Al-Imam al-Sayuti’s (d. 900 H) position on al-Maulid al-

Nabawi and his critique of al-Fakahani (d. 734 H)”

Degree MA, Faculty of History and Civilization, Academy of Islamic

Studies, University of Malaya (2010).

Student : Tarek Ladjal

Title The Political History of The Sufi Movements in West Africa

During The 19th Century

Degree Ph.D. in History and Civilization

Student

Title

Degree

: Ghazi Saeed al-Bahar al-Rawas

The Concept of Reform in Islam. The Case of Umar ibn Abd

al-Aziz.

Ph.D. Usuluddin and Comparative Religion, (2009).

Student

Title

Degree

: Salih Mashush

"Impact of Tawhidic Worldview in Shaping Ibn Khaldun's

Percept of Umran: An Analytical Study of the Concept of

Man and Knowledge as Developed in His Muqaddimah"

Ph.D., history and civilization, ISTAC, (2009).

Student

Title

: Sultan Mohamed Zahran

“The Mystical Dimension of Ibadi Thought: A Historical and

Analytical Study.


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Degree Ph.D. Usuluddin and Comparative Religion, (2006).

Student

Title

Degree

: Besah Bint Abdul Hamid (Matric no. G9915368),

“A Study of British Religious Policy in the Sudan with

Reference to the Position of the Grand Qadi, 1898-1956”,

MA., History and Civilization, July 2005.

Student

Title

Degree

: Ghazi Saeed al-Bahar al-Rawas

“The Concept of Political Authority Acccording to

Muawiyah”,

MA., Usuluddin and Comparative Religion, March 2005.

Student

Title

Degree

: Zuraini Nordin (Matric no. G0114392),

“The Theories of the Beginning of Human History in Two

Malaysian History Textbooks: A Content Analysis”,

MA., History and Civilization, December 2003.

Student

Title

Degree

: Ilaya Romiza Binti Suri (Matric no. G9915368), “The Reformist

Ideas and Impact of Zainal Abdidin Ahmed (Za’ba) 0895-1973

in the Malaya Peninsula”,

MA., History and Civilization, October 2002.

3. Referee for national and international Journals

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS)

“When Words Collide? Islam and Modernity – Alternative

Paradigms, Contrasting Authentic Ideals”, (October 2118).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, USA

“Mahdist Sudan and Christian Abyssinia: a (hi)story of

representations”, (February 2118).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: The Journal of the Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University,

Brunei.

“The Social and Political Background of the Abasid

Revolution: Rise of the Abbasid Caliphate”, (May 2101).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: Al-Darah, the Foundation of King Abdul Aziz for Archives

and Research, Saudi Arabia

“Impact of Muhammad ibn Abdal Wahhab on Ahmad al-

Surkitti (July, 2008).

Journal

: Al-Darah, the Foundation of King Abdul Aziz for Archives

and Research, Saudi Arabia


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Title of Manuscript “Impact of the Hajj in Indonesian Independent Movement”,

(Safar, 1429).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: Tafakur, University of Gezira, Sudan.

“The Khaldunian Influence on Modern Studies of

Civilization: Bennabi’s Approach to Civilization as an

Example”, (September 2117).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: Jurnal of Islamiyyat, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

“The Role of Religion in Making Civilization”, (December

2006).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: Al-Shajarah, ISTAC

“Dialogue of Civilizations and Cultural Fusion along the Silk

Routes: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Formation of Sino-

Arab Calligraphy”, (January 2118).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: Al-Tajdid, IIUM

“The South Asian Hajj Routes between History and

Geographical Longitudes”, (May, 2101).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: Al-Tajdid, IIUM

“Art of War and Public Relations”

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: Al-Tajdid, IIUM

“Methodological Fundamentals in interpreting our Present

Situation”, (January 2117).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: Al-Tajdid, IIUM.

“The Legtamcy of the Calipahte of Yazid ibn Muawiyyah”, ,

(May 2003).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: Al-Tajdid, IIUM.

“Role of Sufi Women Scholars in the Mamluk Age”, (January

2003).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: Al-Tajdid, IIUM

“Jerusalem in Arab-Israeli Peace Agreements”, (April 2112).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: Al-Tajdid, IIUM

“Arabic Sources and their Impact on Historical Studies in

Sudanic Africa”, (July 2001).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: Al-Tajdid, IIUM

“Reform Aspects in the Sufi Thought of al-Shaykh Ahmad


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Zaruq”, (August 2111).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: International Journal of Muslim Unity

“International Tourism, Security and Intellectual Dialogue

in the Arab World: Spatial Segregation or Bridging the

Gaps?”, (September 2119).

Journal

Title of Manuscript


"Causes of The Early Islamic Conquests", (March 2009).

Journal

Title of Manuscript


“The Historical Background of the Rise of Western

Modernity and its Philosophical Features”, (Janurary 2009).

Journal

Title of Manuscript


“The Islamic Civilization: Its Meaning, Origin and

Development, and Distinctive Charateristics and Goal”, (July

2008).

Journal

Title of Manuscript


“Islam as a unifiying force in Somali Politics”, Novermber

2006.

Journal

Title of Manuscript


“Using Construcvist Approach to Integrate Religious and

Science Education”, October 2006.

Journal

Title of Manuscript


“The Vision of Rashid Rida on the Modern Arab Orient and

the Current Political and Civilization Phenoma”, October

2005.

Journal

Title of Manuscript


“The Cultural Interaction between the Arabs and the West:

The Experience of Andulusa”, October 2005.

Journal

Title of Manuscript


“The Future of Islam and Muslims in the suitable Historical

Context”, March 2005.

Journal

Title of Manuscript


"Cultural Interaction between The Arabs and the West: The

Experiment of Andalusia", (March, 2005).

Journal : Islam in Asia


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Title of Manuscript “The Partition of the Malay Sultanates in the Light of the

Anglo-Siamese Agreement, 0919”, (October 2117).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: Islam in Asia

“The Impact of the Western Colonialism on Islam and

Muslims in the Far East: The Case of the Philippines”,

(September 2003).

Journal

Title of Manuscript

Al-Risalah, IIUM

“Sufism in Islam: the Position of Imam al-Ghazali and

Shaykh Uthman Ibn Fudi”, May 2004.

Journal

Title of Manuscript

: The Gombak Review

"Authenticity of Arabic Slave Narratives", (August 2001).

5. Review of Book Manuscripts

Publisher

Title of Manuscript

: Research Management Centre, IIUM.

“The Palestinian Issue from Malaysian Perspectives,

1957-11989", (July 2009)

Publisher

Title of Manuscript


“Research Language”, (July 2119)

Publisher

Title of Manuscript


“Major Themes of Civilizational Renewal of the Ummah

in the Age of Globalization And Universal

Civilization”, (October, 2115).

6. External Assessor

Candidate

Post

Institute

Adil Abdul Aziz

Associate Professorship Post

University Putra Malaya, 2010

TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS

1. Courses taught

HIST 1010: Rise and Expansion of Islam to 132 AH (1) HIST 2530 A: Survey of Islamic History and Civilization. HIST 3110: History of the Ayyubids and Mamluks HIST 3120: Osmanli History HIST 4130: Muslim Nations in Contemporary History HIST 3060: Colonialism in the Muslim World. HIST 4070: Modern History of the Arab World

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IRK 5060: Muslim Community in pluralistic Socieites (Singapore) IRK 5050: Issuees in Muslim History and Civilization (Kuatan) HIST 6600: Islah and Tajdid Movements in Southeast Asia HIST 6100: Muslim Historiorgaphy SOCA 7000: Muslim Minotry Group

2. Latest TER Results Semester I, 2008/2009

Course code Course title Credit hours Contact

hrs/week

No. of Student TER

HIST 4070 Arab world 3 4 40

94.82 HIST 6600 Islah & Tajdid 3 4 9

IRKH 5170 M. Minority 21

TOTAL 6 8 70

Semester II, 2008/2009

Course code Course title Credit hours Contact

hrs/week

No. of Student TER

HIST 3260 Colonialism 3 4 43

92.34 HIST 4070 Arab World 3 4 21

TOTAL 6 8 64

3. Development of new Programme

Programme

Degree

Owner

Middle East Studies

Master’s in Middle Studies

Kulliyyah Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences.

4. Development of new Courses

Course Code

Course Title

Level

HIST 1000

Interoduction to History and Civilization Undergrdaute: Level 1000

Course Code

Course Title

Level

HIST 6600

Islah and Tajdid Movements in Southeast Asia Postgradaute: MA Level

Course Code

Course Title

Level

MES 6000

Approaches and Research Methods to the Middle East

Studies

Postgradaute: MA Level

Course Code MES 6040


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Course Title

Level

Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Postgradaute: MA Level