Sumanto Al Qurtuby: Aneka Ragam Puasa Mulai Hippocrates Hingga Benjamin Franklin

Beliau adalah kolumnis beberapa media Indonesia dan Internasional.

 Profesor Antropologi Budaya King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals telah menulis lebih dari 18 buku, dan puluhan artikel ilmiah, dan ratusan karya ilmiah populer (Bahasa Indonesia dan Inggris).

Di antara jurnal ilmiah yang memuat karya beliau, yaitu International Journal of Asian Studies, Asian Journal of Social Science, Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, Southeast Asian Studies, Peace Research, International Journal on World Peace, Islamic Studies, Asian Perspective, dan lain-lain.

Buku terbarunya diterbitkan oleh Routledge (London & New York) dengan judul Religious Violence and Conciliation in Indonesia: Christians and Muslims in the Moluccas.

Prof Sumanto telah menyelesaikan sebuah buku manuskrip dengan judul Saudi Arabia and Indonesian Networks: Migration, Education and Islam.

Mantan Sekretaris Jenderal Komunitas NU Amerika dan Kanada ini sedang menangani beberapa penelitian, termasuk “Domestic Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Saudi Arabia” dan “Islamist Mobilization and the Prospects for Civil Islam in Indonesia.”

Pendidikan

S1-Fakultas Syari’ah IAIN Walisongo Semarang

S2-MA in Conflict and Peace Studies from Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding

S3-PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Boston University

Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Middle East Institute of National University of Singapore, Professor Cultural Anthropology at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Visiting professor and a research fellow at Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame in Indiana, the United States.