Syaifudin Zuhri is a lecturer at the Institute Agama Islam Negeri/IAIN Tulungagung and a former research fellow at Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies/BGSMCS-Freie Universiteit Berlin.

He graduated from the State Islamic University (Universitas Islam Negeri/UIN) of Sunan Kalijaga majoring in Sociology of Religion (2005) and obtained his Master degree from Leiden University (2010). In 2018, he finished his doctoral studies from Humboldt University of Berlin specialising in Southeast Asian studies. Now, he is now completing his monograph on the invention of sacred tradition and Muslim pilgrimage in Bali, Indonesia.