Muhammad Khalis Ibrahim is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Islamic History, Civilization, and Education at the Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya. His research interests include Islamism, Islamophobia, and Turkish studies, with particular emphasis on political history and contemporary thought. He has published actively in indexed international journals, including Journal of Al-Tamaddun, Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies, Qudus International Journal of Islamic Studies, Akademika: Journal of Southeast Asia Social Sciences and Humanities, and Islamiyyat, among others. His first monograph, Perkembangan Islam di Turkiye: Dari Era Khilafah hingga AKP (in Malay), received a Special Award from the Malaysian Academic Publishing Council (Majlis Penerbitan Ilmiah Malaysia–MAPIM) under the category Anugerah Buku Ilmiah Bahasa Melayu Terbaik (Best Malay Academic Book Award) at the 16th MAPIM–MoHE Award. Currently, Muhammad Khalis is further exploring Islamophobia in Malaysia, in particular, and globally more broadly, through a history-of-ideas approach alongside decolonial discourse within contemporary Islamic civilizational studies.