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Mun'im Sirry is an assistant professor of theology and scholar with the Contending Modernities Initiative at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. His research interests include political theology, modern Islamic thought, Qur'anic studies, and interreligious relations. Sirry is the author of Scriptural Polemics: the Qur’ān and Other Religions (2014). His publications have appeared in Arabica, BSOAS, Interpretation, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Journal of Semitic Studies, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, The Muslim World, Studia Islamica, and Die Welt des Islams. Sirry is developing a project within the “Contending Modernities” framework that explores the conditions for the possibility of peaceful co-existence in a plural society like Indonesia. He also serves on the editorial boards of Studies in Interreligious Dialogue, al-Bayan: Journal of Qur’an and Hadith Studies, Indo-Islamika, Journal of Indonesian Islam, and ‘Ulumuna: Jurnal Studi Keislaman. He earned his Ph.D. in Islamic studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School.