Dr. Ahmad Zakirullah bin Mohamed Shaarani is currently a senior lecturer at Faculty of Management and Economics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), teaching Islamic Banking, Islamic Capital Market, Usul Fiqh and Qawaid Fiqhiyyah in Economic’s perspective and other Islamic Finance’s subject.
He was a registered Shariah Advisor as well as an Internal Shariah Committee member at the Islamic Banking and Finance Institute of Malaysia (IBFIM) from 2008 to 2018, former Shariah Committee of United Overseas Bank (UOB) from 2016 to 2021, Former Shariah Committee of IBFIM’s Internal Shariah Committee (IISC) from 2010 to 2018, former Shariah Committee of Perbadanan Tabung Pembangunan Kemahiran (PTPK) from 2019 to 2023 and former Shariah Committee of EXIM Bank from 2024 to 2025.
Currently, he serves as a Shariah Committee member at Hong Leong MSIG Takaful, Shariah Committee at the National Farmers Organization (Pertubuhan Peladang Kebangsaan), a Senior Consultant at Tawafuq Consultancy Sdn Bhd and a Shariah Committee member at Perbadanan Ekonomi Islam Perak (PSB).
He holds a Diploma in Syariah Islamiyyah from Institute of Islamic and Arabic Language (MADIWA), Taiping Perak and a Bachelor’s degree from Al-Azhar University, Tanta, Egypt in 2003. He completed his Master’s in Islamic Revealed Knowledge – Majoring in Usul al-Fiqh (Hons) from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in 2008. He received his Ph.D in Usul al-Fiqh from University of Malaya in 2017. His areas of specialisation are on Islamic Banking and Finance, Usul al-Fiqh and Zakat.
