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The overall profile has been made, over the past 42 years, of three major fields of interest: First: A progressive involvement in academic research and teaching on issues pertaining to the formation of Muslim thought in classical times. Questions dealing with early Muslim dogma, creeds, theology and sects, were addressed. So were the issues related to Muslim law, scholarship, classical Literature, Qur'anic and Hadith Sciences. In the few recent years, more focus has been made on the formation of the Vulgate according to San'a Qur'anic manuscripts. This academic interest has shaped the profile in re-understanding contemporary issues challenging Muslim societies. Appropriation(s) of the past, approaches to Modernity, reformist thinking, Gender in Muslim contexts, and emerging religious minorities in Muslim societies, are but few matters that have been critically analysed to comprehend the underlying politics and strategies aiming at bringing change to contemporary Muslim societies.