Syamsuddin Arif

Syamsuddin Arif is Professor of Medieval Islamic Philosophy at Darussalam University (UNIDA) Gontor Ponorogo Indonesia. He has served as Executive Director of INSISTS Jakarta (2015-2017) and Associate Professor in the Center for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science and Civilisation at the University of Technology Malaysia (2012-2015). He has previously taught at the International Islamic University Malaysia (2007-2012), and held Visiting Research Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, UK (2017-2018). He received his M.A. (1999) and Ph.D. (2004) from the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) Kuala Lumpur, and spent four years (2003-2007) at the Orientalisches Seminar, Johann Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.