Muhammad Yusuf Saleem was born in Afghanistan. He obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from International Islamic University Malaysia in 1992, where he also studied his Master of Comparative Laws (MCL) and obtained a PhD in 2003. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, International Islamic University, Malaysia. He has taught a series of courses on Fiqh for Economist, Islamic Transactions (Mu'amalat), Islamic Jurisprudence (Usul al-Fiqh), Islamic banking and finance, zakat, waqf and Islamic law of inheritance (Faraidh). He has also taught Islamic Finance, and Fiqh al-mu'amalt courses for postgraduate students at the Graduate School of Management and at the IIUM Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance. Dr. Saleem contributed several articles to various local and international journals. He has participated and presented papers in international conferences in Kuala Lumpur, Dhaka, Jeddah, and Bahrain. Among his works are An Introduction to the Theoretical Foundations of Islamic Transactions, Muslim Powerlessness and the Nation-state, Methods and Methodologies in Fiqh and Islamic Economics, Mutawalli Institutions for the Management of Waqf Properties, Form v. Substance in Islamic Banking and Financial Transactions, and the Application of Ibra and Muqassah to House Financing Contracts.
