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Mark Durie
Anglican priest
Websitemarkdurie.com

Mark Durie (born 1958) is an Australian Anglican priest and a scholar in linguistics and theology. He is the founding director of the Institute for Spiritual Awareness, a Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Arthur Jeffery Centre for the Study of Islam at the Melbourne School of Theology.[1]

Life and career

Durie was born in Papua to missionary parents, and grew up in Canberra.[2]

Mark Durie was awarded a PhD by the Australian National University in 1984.[3] Subsequently he held visiting appointments at the University of Leiden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California, Los Angeles, Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Cruz.[4] From 1987 to 1997 he held positions of postdoctoral fellow, lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and associate professor at the University of Melbourne. Ordained an Anglican deacon and priest in 1999, he has served on the staff of St Mark's Camberwell, St Hilary's Kew, St Mary's Caulfield, St Clement's Elsternwick and St Catharine's South Caulfield.[5] He holds a BTh (Hons), and DipTh from the Australian College of Theology and in 2016 completed a Th.D. with the Australian College of Theology and Melbourne School of Theology.[6]

Durie has published articles and books on the Acehnese language of Aceh, Indonesia, linguistics, the genesis of the Quran and interfaith relations. He was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1992.[7] He has been described as "the most accomplished specialist on Acehnese writing in English".[8]

His book The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom has a foreword by Bat Ye'or, and Durie has been described as a proponent of Ye'or's counter-jihadist worldview.[9]

He has appeared on Sky News Australia.[10][11][12]

Works

Journal articles

  • Durie, Mark. "The So-Called Passive of Acehnese." Language. Linguistic Society of America, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Mar., 1988), pp. 104–113 - Available at Jstor: https://www.jstor.org/stable/414788
  • Durie, Mark (1985), A grammar of Acehnese : on the basis of a dialect of North Aceh (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2011, retrieved 28 October 2012 () "(Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde)." Foris Publications, 1985. ISBN 9067650749, ISBN 978-9067650748.
  • Durie, Mark. "Proto-Chamic and Acehnese mid vowels : towards Proto-Aceh-Chamic." 1988. (Archive)
  • Durie, Mark. "Control and decontrol in acehnese." [sic] Australian Journal of Linguistics. Volume 5, Issue 1, 1985. p. 43-53. Published online: 14 August 2008. DOI:10.1080/07268608508599335.
  • Durie, Mark. "Grammatical Relations in Acehnese." Studies in Language, 1987. vol. 11, no2, pp. 365–399. ISSN 0378-4177. DOI 10.1075/sl.11.2.05dur.

Books

Opinion articles

References

  1. ^ "Courses on Islam at the Arthur Jeffery Centre for the Study of Islam, Melbourne School of Theology". Anglican Ink. 16 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Revd Dr Mark Durie". Melbourne School of Theology. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  3. ^ Mark Durie, "A grammar of Acehnese", PhD diss., Australian National University, 1984. The catalogue record can be viewed here. 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 "Aceh Books (KITLV) | Digital Collections" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  4. ^ "Durie, Mark, FAHA". Humanities.org.au. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  5. ^ "The Revd Dr Mark John Durie". Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  6. ^ Mark Durie, "Qu'ranic theology and Biblical reflexes in the Qu'ran." ThD diss., Melbourne School of Theology, 2016. The catalog record can be viewed here.
  7. ^ "Durie, Mark, FAHA". Humanities.org.au. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  8. ^ Mabry, Tristan James (2015). Nationalism, Language, and Muslim Exceptionalism. University of Pennsylvania. p. 168. ISBN 9780812246919.
  9. ^ "Dhimmitude Unveiled". New English Review. August 2013.
  10. ^ "Australian Anglican Church splits after 'going too far to the Left'". Sky News Australia. 23 August 2022.
  11. ^ "Anglican Church is 'heading for a division'". Sky News Australia. 17 May 2022.
  12. ^ "There is 'no reason to doubt' Jesus Christ existed: Pastor". Sky News Australia. 11 December 2019.
  13. ^ Mark Durie (1 January 2015). "From Broken Hill to Martin Place: Individual Jihad Comes to Australia, 1915 to 2015". Retrieved 2 January 2015.

External links

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