Profile of Dr Halim Rane

Dr Halim Rane is currently the Deputy Director of the Griffith Islamic Research Unit and a Lecturer in the in Islamic National Centre of Excellence Studies at Griffith University. He is also a member of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice, and Governance as well as an Associate Investigator with the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security.

Dr Rane completed his PhD in 2008. His dissertation, entitled Reconstructing Jihad amid Competing International Norms: Implications for a Resolution of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, incorporates theory and methods from the fields of international relations and Islamic studies and presents a constructivist perspective of conflict resolution. He was awarded ‘academic excellence’ and the Chancellor’s Medal for ‘Excellence in the Doctor of Philosophy’. Dr Rane also has a Master’s degree in media studies, which he completed in 2000. He wrote his Master’s thesis on the Australian press portrayal of Islam and Muslims. Dr Rane’s undergraduate degree is in the fields of sociology and Islamic studies, attained in 1998 from the International Islamic University Malaysia.  

Dr Rane is active in both teaching and research. His research interests include political Islam, the Israel-Palestine conflict, Islamic thought and the higher objectives (maqasid) of Islamic law, and issues pertaining to Islam and the mass media. Among other publications, Dr Rane is the author of Reconstructing Jihad amid Competing International Norms published in 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan.