Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad (KBA) has followed his curiosity
throughout life, which has carried him into the fields of Sociology of
Anthropology of Religion in Southeast Asia, Islamic Studies, Sufism,
Cosmology, and Security, Geostrategy, Terrorism, and Geopolitics. KBA is
the author of over 30 books and 50 academic and professional journal
articles and book chapters. His academic training is in social anthropology at
La Trobe University, Islamic Political Science at the University of Malaya,
and Islamic Legal Studies at UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta. He received
many fellowships: Asian Public Intellectual (The Nippon Foundation), IVLP
(American Government), Young Muslim Intellectual (Japan Foundation),
and Islamic Studies from Within (Rockefeller Foundation). He is based in
Banda Aceh and can be reached at ceninnets@yahoo.com.au