Safinar binti Salleh obtained her Bachelor in Shari'ah (Hons) from Al-Azhar University, Cairo in 1999. She pursued her Master's in Shari'ah and became a tutor at the Department of Fiqh and Usul, Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya. She started developing her expertise in the area of Islamic Law of Contracts and completed a dissertation on Islamic Pawn Broking.
Upon completion of her Master's in 2005, she took up a lecturer's position at Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws (AIKOL), at IIUM. In July 2013, she obtained her Ph.D from Glasgow Caledonian University and her research was on Islamic Insurance (Takaful).
Presently, she is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Islamic Law, AIKOL. She is a Shari'ah Committee member for Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (Malaysia) Berhad and Swiss Re Retakaful.

• Social Science ~ Social Science ~ Syariah Law ~ Islamic Banking Law - Islamic Insurance Law
• Social Science ~ Social Science ~ Syariah Law ~ Islamic Law of Transaction - Islamic pawn broking
• Social Science ~ Social Science ~ Syariah Law ~ Islamic Law of Transaction - Contracts in Islamic Law

ISLAMIC BANKING LAW AND TAKAFUL	2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020
ISLAMIC LAW OF BANKING AND SECURITIES	2021/2022 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 2014/2015
ISLAMIC LAW OF BANKING AND TAKAFUL	2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014
ISLAMIC LAW OF INSURANCE (TAKAFUL)	2022/2023 2021/2022 2014/2015 2013/2014
PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES OF TAKAFUL&RE-TAKAFUL	2013/2014
QURANIC AYAT & HADITH ON LAW III (ARABIC)	2006/2007
QURANIC AYAT & HADITH ON LAW IV (ARABIC)	2007/2008 2006/2007 2005/2006
QURANIC AYAT & HADITH ON LAW V (ARABIC)	2005/2006
TRANSACTION IN ISLAMIC LAW I	2022/2023 2021/2022 2017/2018
TRANSACTIONS IN ISLAMIC LAW II	2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014

Completed

2016 - 2019	The Objectives of Shariah in Nomination for the Payment of Takaful Benefits
2014 - 2018	Mis-Selling of Financial Products in the Financial Services Industry - Formulating Comprehensive Investor Protection Mechanism And Enforcement Framework

On-Going

2021 - Present

Developing A Shariah Compliant Model for Funding Islamic Micro Financing Post Pandemic Covid-19

Article

2019	Methodology on the trend of underlying shariah contracts and legal disputes of decided Islamic banking cases in Malaysia. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE) ,, 8 (3S3) pp. 19-24
2018	الفساد الإداري وأسباب ظهوره والآثار الناتجة عنه- دراسة تطبيقية على دولة ليبيا = Administrative corruption and its phenomenon caused, and the effects of the consequences– applied study on the state of Libya. المجلة العربية للعلوم ونشر الإبحاث (Arab Journal of Sciences & Research Publishing), 10 (2) pp. 113-133
2017	Pematuhan syariah dalam operasi Takaful di bawah akta perkhidmatan kewangan Islam (APKI) 2013. Jurnal Syariah, 25 (2) pp. 247-266
2014	The future of Takaful (Islamic Insurance) business in Malaysia under the Islamic Financial Services Act (IFSA) 2013 . Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 8 (15) pp. 391-395
2008	Upah simpan barang dalam skim ar-rahnu: satu penilaian semula. Jurnal Fiqh , 5 (0) pp. 47-65

Conference or Workshop Item

2018	The objectives of Shariah (Maqasid al-Shariah) in nomination for the payment of family takaful benefits. In: 7th International Conference on Law And Society (ICLAS 7),
2017	ADR mechanisms to resolve potential disputes on the payment of takaful benefits under conditional hibah. In: International Conference on Dispute Resolution 2017 - Modern Trends in Effective Dispute Resolution,
2015	Legal personality of Takaful fund: myth or reality?. In: 4th International Conference on Law & Society (ICLAS IV) 2015 ,

Book

2016	Islamic banking and takaful (3rd edition). Pearson Malaysia, ISBN: 978-967-349-687-7

Book Section

2021	Kajian terhadap pencapaian Maqasid al-Shari’ah sistem pewarisan Islam dalam amalan penamaan untuk pembayaran manfaat takaful keluarga. In: Jabatan Kehakiman Syariah Malaysia & Kulliyyah Undang-undang Ahmad Ibrahim, IIUM, ISBN: 978-967-0870-88-5, pp. 571-588
2019	The objectives of shariah in nomination for the payment of family takaful benefits. In: Emerald Publishing Limited, ISBN: 978-1-78973-546-8, pp. 33-52
2019	The objectives of shariah in nomination for the payment of family takaful benefits. In: Emerald Publishing Limited, ISBN: 978-1-78973-546-8, pp. 33-52
2019	The objectives of sharīʿah in nomination for the payment of family takaful benefits. In: Emerald Publishing Limited, ISBN: 978-1-78973-546-8, pp. 33-52
2019	The objectives of sharīʿah in nomination for the payment of family takaful benefits. In: Emerald Publishing Limited, ISBN: 978-1-78973-546-8, pp. 33-52