Rector, Universitas Paramadina; Jakarta, Indonesia Nurcholish Madjid has been rector of Paramadina Mulya University in Jakarta since 1998. He is a prominent Muslim intellectual, known for his innovative opinions on social and political matters in Indonesia and other developing Islamic nations. He also lectures at the postgraduate faculty of the IAIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, and is a senior researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. Previously a leader of various student organizations, he holds a B.A. in Arab literature from Syarif Hidayatullah and a Ph.D. in Islamic thought from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of Dialogues: Islamic World-U.S.-The West, a program of the World Policy Institute of New School University, established in the aftermath of 9/11.
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