Mark Durie

Mark Durie
Anglican pastor, Melbourne, Australia
Website
markdurie.com

Mark Durie is an Australian scholar and vicar of St Mary's Anglican Church in Caulfield, Victoria, Australia.[1][2] Durie has published numerous articles and books on the Acehnese language of Aceh, Indonesia.

Durie holds a Ph.D. in linguistics[3] and was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1992.[4]

Durie has written, in relation to, the best-known chapter of the Quran the Al-Fatihah, to be genuine and effective, reconciliation between Muslims and those they refer to as 'People of the Book' (Jews and Christians), requires that Al-Fatihah and its meaning be discussed openly.[5]

Some of his writings are featured in the book The Myth of Islamic Tolerance, edited by Robert Spencer.

Works

Journal articles

Books

Opinion articles

References

  1. "Police eye on radicals". The Sydney Morning Herald. 10 January 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  2. "Threat or head in clouds?". Daily Telegraph. 30 January 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  3. Mark Durie, "A grammar of Acehnese." PhD diss., Australian National University, 1984. The catalog record can be viewed here: http://library.anu.edu.au/search~S1?/YMark+Durie&l=&searchscope=1&b=&p=&Da=&Db=&SORT=D/YMark+Durie&l=&searchscope=1&b=&p=&Da=&Db=&SORT=D&SUBKEY=Mark+Durie/1%2C8%2C8%2CB/frameset&FF=YMark+Durie&l=&searchscope=1&b=&p=&Da=&Db=&SORT=D&3%2C3%2C. Subsequently the dissertation was revised and published in book form: Durie, Mark. A Grammar of Acehnese on the Basis of a Dialect of North Aceh. Erhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, no. 112. Dordrecht, Holland ; Cinnaminson, NJ: Foris, 1985. See http://acehbooks.org/pdf/ACEH_03107.pdf
  4. "Durie, Mark, FAHA". Humanities.org.au. 1999-02-22. Retrieved 2013-09-08.
  5. Durie, Mark (2 Dec 2009). "The greatest recitation of surat al-fatihah". Retrieved 26 June 2014.
  6. Mark Durie (1 January 2015). "From Broken Hill to Martin Place: Individual Jihad Comes to Australia, 1915 to 2015". Retrieved 2 January 2015.

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