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R. Michael Feener’s research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of Islam in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, he was trained in Islamic Studies and foreign languages at Boston University, Cornell, and the University of Chicago, as well as in Indonesia, Egypt, and Yemen. His is currently working on a study of institutional aspects of the implementation of Shari’a law in Aceh, as well as a collection of essays on interactions between Muslim communities in South and Southeast Asia. At NUS A/P Feener is concurrently a Senior Research Fellow in the Asia Research Institute’s ‘Religion and Globalization’ research cluster.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

-	Muslim Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
-	Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia: Ideas and Institutions (with Mark E. Cammack) Harvard University Press, 2007
-	Islam in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives (ABC-Clio, 2004)