Mohd Zaidi Daud, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the University of Malaya's (UM,) Academy of Islamic Studies', Department of Syariah and Law. He has been appointed as the Head of the Department of Syariah and Law from 2019 to 2024. He received a bachelor in Syariah (Islamic Law) with honours from the University of Malaya, a master's degree in Syariah and law from the University of Malaya, and a PhD in Syariah and law also from the University of Malaya. Islamic Estate Planning (Law on Hibah, Wakaf, Islamic Inheritance, and Islamic Wills), Administration of Islamic Law, and Contemporary of Islamic Law are all areas of specialisation. He is currently the Principal Investigator for a Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education-funded Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) project named Individual Behaviour in Dealing with Property Distribution Issues: A Study of Muslim Estate Planning (FP017-2020). Previously involved in research as an Investigator in collaboration with other researchers on works such as FB063-2018A-Formation Model for Islamic Inheritance Management in Contemporary Muslim Society; RP007D-11HNE-Islamic Law in Practice in Malaysia-State, Society, Fatwa, Shariah Courts, and Islamic Finance; LRGS2013-Wakaf Instruments for Financing, Investment, and Development of Higher Education Institutions; and RG282/11HNE-The Development RG374-12HNE- The Role of Muslim Women's Non-Governmental Organizations in Promoting Gender Equality in Islamic Family Law in Malaysia and Other Asean Countries. He has participated several academic programmes in other countries, most previously the Postgraduate International Workshop held at the Istanbul Foundation for Social and Sciences in Turkey from March 24 to April 4, 2014. He has been appointed a Visiting Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations for one semester in 2013 (August 2013-December 2013). Besides this, he completed a three-month research fellowship at Cairo University's Kuliyyah Darul Ulum in 2010. (May 2010-August 2010). He has presented papers and been invited to speak as a guest speaker both at the national and international levels. Among them are a guest lecture at UNIMMA, Indonesia via online platform in 2021, an International Seminar on Islamic Law in Southeast Asia at UIN Sunan Kalijaga in Indonesia in 2017, an International Journal of Arts and Sciences (IJAS) International Conference in Barcelona, Spain in 2015 and an International End of Year Multidisciplinary Conference in Bad Hofgastein, Austria in 2011. He has also published numerous articles in national and international journals on Islamic law.