Mufdil Tuhri is a Lecturer at the department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Ushuluddin and the Study of Religions, UIN Sulthan Thaha Saifuddin Jambi. In 2019, He earned a master’s degree in Religious Studies from the Center for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies (CRCS), Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta.

He got an Asian Graduate Student Fellowship from the Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore in 2019 and became a Research Fellow on Freedom of Religion and Belief from CRCS UGM in 2021. From February to July 2022, he involved as a researcher on the project of Human and Nature by Radbound University, Nijmegen and ICRS Yogyakarta. He has published several articles such as “Adat, Islam and the Idea of ​​Religion in Colonial Indonesia” (Al-Albab Journal, 2020), “Articulation of Indigenous Tradition in Tourism: A Case Study of Kenduri Sko in Kerinci, Jambi” (Islam Realitas, 2020), “Religion and Land Rights in Indonesian Indigenous-State Relations: Case Study of Orang Rimba in Jambi” (Religio, 2020). His interests lie at Religion and Politics, Beliefs and Contemporary Islamic Studies.