Professor Dr. Wan Kamal Mujani
Wan Kamal Mujani is a Professor at the Department of Arabic Studies and Islamic
Civilization, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). He
was appointed as Head of Quality Management, Faculty of Islamic Studies (20072009), Deputy Director of Centre for Extensional Education (2009) and Deputy
Director of the Institute of West Asian Studies (2010-2012). He was a teacher at the
primary and secondary schools before joining Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in
1993. He has more than twenty years of experience in academic fields such as History
and Islamic Civilization, Muslim Historiography and Arabic Texts and Sources in
Islamic History. His main research interest has been in the areas of Islamic
Historiography and Economic History in the Middle East, Levant & Mediterranean.
He has written extensively mainly on the subject of Mamluk economy during the
medieval period. Some of his research has been presented at economic history
conferences and published in Malaysian and international quality journals.
Wan Kamal received a degree (B.A Hons.) from al-Azhar Egypt, a M.A from
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and a Ph.D. in Economic History from The
University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Currently, he is actively conducting
research on Muslim Contemporaries such as Muslim Middle Class, Extremism,
Moderate/Wasatiyyah, The Bottom 40, Arab Spring and Wakaf. He can be contacted
at inamal@yahoo.com or inawan@ukm.edu.my
Address:
Professor Dr. Wan Kamal Mujani,
Department of Arabic Studies and Islamic Civilization,
Faculty of Islamic Studies,
The National University of Malaysia,
43600 Bangi,
Selangor,
Malaysia.
Tel. +603-8921-5552