Md Faruk Abdullah is a senior lecturer at the Department of Shariah and Economics, Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya (UM). Additionally, he holds the position of Adjunct Faculty at Guidance College in Texas, USA. Before joining UM, he was a senior lecturer at the School of Banking and Finance, Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA) for eight years. He earned his PhD in 2016 from the University of Malaya, specialising in Islamic economics. In 2012, he completed the Chartered Islamic Finance Professional (CIFP) program at INCEIF University. His academic journey also includes obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh (Islamic law and jurisprudence) in 2010 from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Md Faruk has proven proficiency in teaching Islamic finance, wealth management, Shariah, and Fiqh muamalat courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His contributions extend to publishing several articles in Web of Science and SCOPUS-indexed journals. His areas of specialisation encompass Shariah aspects of business and finance, product innovation in Islamic finance and Islamic microfinance. Presently, he serves as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Nusantara Studies (JONUS), indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index. Additionally, he holds a research collaboration with the Accounting Research Institute (ARI) at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) as an Associate Fellow. To further disseminate knowledge, he maintains a dedicated YouTube channel to share insights on fiqh muamalat, Islamic finance, and wealth management. The channel can be accessed at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2mjMBd7f_AmnkyjtwIEeCA

Emily Lau Kui Ling is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English Language, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya.  Her core research domains include Discourse Studies and Multimodality with a particular attention to the representations of pathologized female appearance.  Currently, her teaching of language in literary texts has fanned the flame of her interest in Literature and Stylistics.  Alongside her academic engagements, she hopes to contribute to the preservation of mother tongues, focusing on the 'Foochow' dialect.  She welcomes research collaboration with scholars, policy makers, NGOs, Institutions and graduate/postgraduate hopefuls who would be keen to work on the aforementioned areas.

Associate Professor Dr. Norasmatul Akma Ahmad graduated from University Malaya in 2002. She served the Ministry of Health as a dental officer for four years before pursuing her specialist training in London in 2006. She obtained her Master of Clinical Dentistry in Prosthodontics with Distinction from King’s College London in 2009 and was also awarded the Membership of Restorative Dentistry (Prosthodontics) from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in the same year. Her research interest spans from tooth wear, prosthodontics, indigenous oral health care and dental education. She was theHead of Restorative Dentistry Department (2017-2021) and currently a member of the University Malaya Dental Education Enhancement and DevelopmentUnit (UMDEED) and serves as a Prosthodontist and Restorative Consultant in the University Malaya Specialist Centre (UMSC), University of Malaya,Malaysia. She also serves as Elected Member of the Dental Specialty Sub-Committee (DSCC) under the Malaysia Dental Council (MDC) and Elected Member of the Dental Specialty Education Committee (DentSEdC) under the Ministry of Health, Malaysia.