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Dr. Sayed Abdullah Al-Maruf is a member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Fiqh Council in Jeddah and is currently associate professor in the Department of Arabic at the University of Dhaka. He was the editor of the Research Journal of the Islamic Foundation in Arabic and Bengali and is presently the associate editor of the Arabic Journal at the University of Dhaka. He has participated in many conferences, seminars, and colloquiums in Bangladesh and abroad. Al-Maruf is an expert regarding Islamic perspectives on family planning, interfaith dialogue, religious peace and harmony, and anti-terrorism. Maruf holds a Ph.D. in Arabic Literature from Dhaka University. After earning a Kamil degree in hadith and Islamic jurisprudence, he studied at the Islamic University of Medina and obtained a B.A. He has also studied in Al-Azhar University in Cairo, where he prepared his Ph.D. thesis.