Anthony H. Johns
Biography
Anthony H. Johns completed a degree in Arabic and Malay at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; his Ph.D. thesis was on Sufism in the Malay world (1954).After four years in Indonesia he was appointed to the Australian National University in Canberra where he taught Arabic and Islamic Studies for many years. In the course of his distinguished career he has held visiting appointments in Jerusalem, Toronto, Tokyo and Oxford, and spent many research periods in Cairo. He has published numerous major papers in journals, and chapters in books on various aspects of the Qur‘an and Qur‘anic exegesis, and on the vernacularisation of the foundation texts of Islam in Indonesia. Now Emeritus Professor, he is Visiting Fellow in the Division of Pacific and Asian History of the Research School of Asian and Pacific studies at the Australian National University.
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