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He was appointed as the Director of the Raja Zarith Sofiah Centre for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science, and Civilization (RZS-CASIS), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), effective from 1 July 2024. He obtained his Ph.D. from RZS-CASIS with a study titled “An Analysis of Legal Person Using Taklīf and ’Itibārī in Islam.” He also earned an M.Phil. from the same center with a study on the economic thought of Ḥanafī scholars in Kitāb al-Mabsūṭ by Imām al-Sarakhsī (d. 1090).
He holds a Bachelor’s degree (with honors) in Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Islamic Banking and Finance from the Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance (IIiBF), IIUM.
He is a co-founder of the Himpunan Keilmuan Muslim (HAKIM) and was one of the early initiators of the Wacana Pandangan Alam Islam (WISE) program, which has since expanded to Cairo, Egypt, and Stockholm, Sweden. Within the WISE program, he also serves as a lecturer and tutor.
He has also been involved in the Islamic banking industry as a member of the Shariah Advisory Committee of Deutsche Bank (Malaysia) Berhad (2014–2022) and OCBC al-Amin (2022–present).
Among the books he co-edited are Islam and the Environment with Zaini Ujang and Muhammad Zainiy Uthman, and Thinking Framework with Muhammad Zainiy Uthman and Sulaiman Boayao. He also co-translated with Muhammad Zainiy Uthman the book The Historic Judgment of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Riba.
His writings include:
“Al-Taftāzānī’s Sources of Knowledge in Sharḥ al-Talwīḥ ‘alā al-Tawḍīḥ li Matn al-Tanqīḥ fī Uṣūl al-Fiqh”
“Commercial Partnership in Islam: A Brief Survey of Kitāb al-Muḍārabah of al-Mabsūṭ by al-Sarakhsī”
and numerous scholarly articles in newspapers and magazines.
He is a Senior Lecturer at RZS-CASIS, and previously served as a lecturer at the Department of Islamic Understanding and Thought, Centre for Core Studies, Islamic University Selangor (UIS). He obtained his Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Mathematics from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, and later pursued a Master’s degree in the same field at the National University of Malaysia (UKM).
He has served as a mathematics lecturer at UiTM and as a research assistant at USM, UM, and UKM. He later pursued a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Islamic Thought and Civilization at the Centre for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science and Civilization (RZS-CASIS), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Kuala Lumpur, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Muhammad Zainiy Uthman. His thesis was titled “Mathematisation in Ibn Sīnā–al-Bīrūnī Correspondence and Sīrāfī–Mattā Debate.”
He was one of the first cohort participants of the WISE program and has since been actively involved in HAKIM as a fellow, including serving as a tutor in the WISE program in Malaysia, Sweden, and Egypt since 2014. Among his writings is “Mathematics and Reality: An Examination of the Definitions of Mathematics,” which was published in the TAFHIM journal. He is also a lifetime member of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society (PERSAMA) and was actively involved in training the Malaysian team for the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and the International Philosophical Olympiad (IPO).