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Azyumardi Azra is the director of the graduate school at Sharif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta. He served as the rector of the same university from 1998 to 2006. He was previously a professor of history at Universitas Islam Negeri in Jakarta, Indonesia. After graduating from the State Institute for Islamic Studies in Jakarta he studied for his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Studia Islamika, an Indonesian journal for Islamic studies. He has published widely, particularly on contemporary Southeast Asian Islam. In 2010, he received the title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire, an honorary order from the United Kingdom.