Brief Biodata of Abdul Kabir Hussain Solihu
Abdul Kabir Hussain Solihu is a professor of Islamic Studies at Kwara State University, Malete. He obtained B.A. degree in Islamic and Arabic Studies from Al-Azhar University, and M.A. and PhD degrees in Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage (Usul al-Din & Comparative Religion) from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). He also obtained postgraduate diploma in Human Sciences from IIUM. His areas of specialization include Islamic Thought, Comparative Religion, Religion and Ecology, and Qur’anic Studies. He has also developed an interest in computational linguistics. He has authored and co-authored several publications and one commercialised product, ROTAS Transliteration Kit. He formerly served as an academic staff in the Faculty of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences (2003-2016) and Editor of the Intellectual Discourse journal (2012–2016) at the International Islamic University Malaysia. He also served as Director of Kwara State University Press (2017-2020) and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Kwara State University, Malete (2019-2023).