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 wit
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h 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).
