Faried F. Saenong is currently a researcher at the University of Waikato Islamic Studies Group (UWISG) and was affiliated with JD Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies (VUW), Victoria University of Wellington. He is also a lecturer at the Centre of Qur’anic Studies (PSQ) and Institute of Qur’anic Studies (PTIQ) Jakarta. He obtained his PhD at the Department of Anthropology, the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra. He completed his MA from the University of Manchester (UK) and Universiteit Leiden (the Netherlands).