Muhammad M. Nasir works on African Islamic intellectual history, focusing on West African manuscripts and textual traditions, political Islam, and comparative Muslim intellectual life in West Africa and Southeast Asia. He earned an MA specializing in Political Islam and the Anthropology of Islam from the Indonesian International Islamic University (UIII), where his fieldwork-based thesis, “Politics, Proselytisation and the Glocalization of Salafism in Post-9/11 Indonesia and Nigeria,” received the Best Thesis Award in 2023. His research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including the Australian Journal of Islamic Studies (Scopus Q2).
Research Areas
African Islamic Intellectual History | West African Manuscript Traditions | Comparative Muslim Societies and Cultures in West Africa and Southeast Asia | Political Islam and the Anthropology of Islam
Education
M.A., Islamic Studies, Indonesian International Islamic University (UIII)
B.A., Islamic Studies, University of Jos
Honors & Awards
African Islamic intellectual history & West African manuscript traditions
Manuscript cultures and textual history
Comparative Muslim intellectual life in West Africa and Southeast Asia
Political Islam and the anthropology of Islam
Selected Paper Award (2023) — Writing Competition, Faculty of Education, UIII, for “Preserving Tradition: A Comparative Study of the Historical Evolution, Approaches, and Methods of Islamic Education in Nigeria and Indonesia.”
Research fellow and Guest Lecturer, Universitas PTIQ Jakarta, Indonesia, 2024.
Best Thesis Award, 2022/2023, Indonesian International Islamic University.
IJLIL-Article Writing Competition 2024 Winner, Sharia Faculty, Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq State Islamic University Jember, 2024.
Best Paper award, 2023 Graduate Forum on Religious Authority and Digital Culture in South-east Asia, (Pascarjana) School of Graduate Studies of UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2023.
Best Presenter (Muslim Women Entrepreneurs: The Nigerian Mumpreneurs Perspective), The 10th International Islamic Economic Conference (IiECONS 2023) 2023 Meccah, Saudi Arabia.