Dr. Yusuf Rahman will do research for six months on “The Transformation of Western Scholarship in the Academic Study of Qur’an and Tafsir in Indonesia” at the University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Indiana.

Western studies on the Qur’an and tafsir have developed rapidly, Dr. Rahman feels, and it is a kind of “golden age of Quranic studies” that should be more widely known among Indonesian Quranic scholars in order that they too can contribute to the richness of the scholarship. Building on earlier research he did in 2015 in Australia on “Indonesian Muslim Responses to Western Scholarship on Qur’an and Tafsir,” he will deepen his research on the influence of Western Qur’anic scholarship in Indonesia while at Notre Dame.

Dr. Rahman, a lecturer at the State Islamic University (UIN), Jakarta received his bachelor’s degree from the UIN, and received his master’s and PhD degrees from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.