Azra Azyumardi

Azyumardi Azra earned his MA, MPhil and PhD degrees in History from Columbia University. At present he is Professor of History and Director of the Graduate School of the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta, Indonesia. He was Deputy for Social Welfare at the Office of Vice-President of the Republic of Indonesia (April 2007 -20 October 2009) and Rector of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University for two terms (1998-2002 and 2002-2006.