Dr. Muhammad Adlin Sila

Muhammad Adlin Sila was awarded the title of Research Professor in Religion and Society in 2019 by the Minister of Religious Affairs, based on the Principal Expert Researcher (PAU) decree from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), now BRIN, and currently serves at the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology. He completed his undergraduate degree at UIN Alauddin Makassar (1994), a Graduate Diploma in Anthropology (1997), an MA in Asian Studies (2000), and a PhD in Anthropology (2015) at the Australian National University, as well as a PhD in Sociology at the University of Indonesia (2010). His book Maudu’: A Way of Union With God discusses the ethnography of the Hadhrami community in Cikoang and is recognized as a significant contribution to Sayyid/Habib studies in Indonesia, while his anthropology dissertation, which won The Ann Bates Prize, was subsequently published by Leiden University Press as Being Muslim in Indonesia: Religiosity, Politics and Cultural Diversity in Bima. His research on Muslim communities in Makassar and Bima positions him as one of the leading researchers in ethnographic studies of the diversity of Islamic traditions in eastern Indonesia, with research interests in social anthropology, religion, and tradition.