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Mustapha Adebayo Bello PhD is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Religions and Peace Studies of the Lagos State University. He is a scholar of religion whose research interest is on the adaptability of Islam in its pristine principles to cultures of receiving peoples (converts and admirers) whose philosophy and orientation are clearly different. The interaction and sharing processes as well as the consequential fallouts are the main gist of his published works in both local and international journals. He has been teaching Islamic Studies at the Department since 2009. In 2013, he participated in the Global Prayers Congress in Berlin, Germany where his table talk on Decolonializing Research Methods with Prof. Marloes  Janson of the Center for Modern Oriental Studies, ZMO, Berlin Germany (now of the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London) elicited rave commentary within the academic circle and is still being regularly accessed online. His research work on “Gendering Spiritual Husbandry: Female Church Overseers and Female Muslim Deputies and Alfas in Yoruba Land” won the Leventis Fellowship Scholarship of the Center of African Studies (CAS) of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London in 2018. He was at the Center between October and December of the same year for his post-doctoral fellowship. Dr. Mustapha Ade Bello has also been deeply involved in the management of Muslim organizations particularly at Nasru-l-Llahi-l-Fatih Society (NASFAT) in different capacities as National Administrative Officer, Assistant General Secretary and Secretary of the National Mission Board until 2017 when he left to join Jaamatu Ahli Llahi (JAMAHLIY) as the General Secretary. He is the author of the serial story book “Qur’anic Stories for the Young Ones” and a dozen other theological and motivational literatures. He is the initiator and director of Center for Theology and Spiritual Intelligence a religio-academic outfit, non sectarian, non mystical and not profiting making Faith Based Organization (FBO) saddled with the responsibility of sharing the understanding of Islam in a plural society both on line and off line.