Saifullah Bhutto

Professor of Islamic Studies and Ethics with over 20 years of teaching, research, and academic leadership experience. Specializes in Islamic manuscripts, Qur’anic studies, and comparative religious ethics. Experienced in international academic collaboration across Turkey, Germany, and Japan. Actively engaged in promoting interfaith harmony and social cohesion in Pakistan.

• Led a university department of 30+ faculty members as Head of Department.
• Taught ethics and Islamic studies to undergraduate students.
• Published 26 research articles in interfaith and Islamic studies.
• Delivered lectures internationally (Japan, Germany, Turkey, Malaysia).
• Active in community-based initiatives promoting social cohesion.

• Member, Academic Council & Senate, QUEST
• Editorial Board Member (academic journals)
• Evaluator of MPhil theses

• Bhutto, S. (2024), Islamic Ethical Frameworks and Climate Change.
• Kaloi, A.R. & Bhutto, S. (2024), Dialogue as Liberation in Interfaith Contexts.
• Bhutto, S. et al. (2020), The Holy Quran: A Guiding Source of Ethics.
• Kaloi A R., Bhutto S. (2024), Dialogue as Liberation: Asghar Ali Engineer’s Dialogical Process for Religio-Cultural Harmony and Peace.
• Kaloi A R, Bhutto S, Nighat Akram (2022), Islamic Paradigms for Interfaith Dialogue: A Qur’anic and Sunnah Perspective.
• Bhutto Sanaullah, Bhutto Saifullah, Kaloi Abdul Rehman (2019), The Conduct of Muslims with non-Muslim Fellows in Muslim Pre-dominant Regions: A Historical Perspective.
• Kaloi Abdul Rehman, Bhutto Saifullah (2018), Liberators of the ages’: “The Role of Buddha and Muhammad (PBUH) for the Liberation of Humanity.
• Bhutto Sanaullah, Bhutto Saifullah, (2017), Protection and Respect for the Places of Worship in Islam.
• Nida Umar Khattab, Bhutto Saifullah (2020), A Historical and Comparative Review of the Compilation, Collection and Sequence of the Holy Quran and the Veda/ (قرآن کریم اور وید کی جمع و تدوین اور ترتیب کا تقابلی جائزہ).
• Yasir Arafat, Bhutto Saifullah (2020), Jewish Foundation of Islamic Fiqh: Critical Assessment of Orientalists’ Viewpoint/ (فقہ اسلامی کی یہودی اساس کا استشراقی موقف: نقد و نظر).
• Bhutto Sanaullah; Bhutto Saifullah, (2018), (مقاصد شریعت اور انسان کے بنیادی حقوق)/ The Objectives of Shariah and Basic Human Rights.
• Bhutto Saifullah, Bhutto Hameedullah, (2018), Social Reforms of Prophet Muhammad S.A.W/ (نبیؐ کی سماجی اصلاحات ).
• For more articles, please visit Google scholar id https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=N3t9iNIAAAAJ
• Key speaker in online webinar on Quranic Ethics held by the department of Islamic Studies, Shaheed Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran on 19th June 2023. Speech Title: A comparative study of ethics in the Qur'an and the Testaments.
• Guest speaker in extension lecture on “Growing religious intolerance in society: Causes and precautions” at Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur on 22 Feb 2022.
• Speaker in an Online Workshop on “Realizing Understanding Language in Cross-cultural Migration/Integration and Secular–Religious Contexts” organized by members of the Academics in Solidarity Network from (University of Leipzig & RWTH Aachen University, Germany in Feb 2021. Topic: The role of language in establishing social cohesion and inter-cultural harmony in society: The case of Pakistan.
• Panelist speaker in conference on “The Message of Unity” organized by Jamia Roohaniat, Gilgit Baltistan in October 2021. (Online)
• International conference on Quranic Life style, Karachi, organized by Deptt. of Research Al-Mustafa International University Iran and Dept. of Islamic learning University of Karachi. Presented paper titled “Moral Teachings of Quran”, on 11 April 2018.
• Keynote speaker at the Seminar on Muslim Fasting in June 2017 at Chiba University arranged by Chiba Islamic Cultural Centre, Nishi Chiba, Japan. Topic: The philosophy of Fasting in Islam.

• Taught Islamic Studies, Ethics, and Professional Ethics.
• Designed courses emphasizing ethical reasoning and interfaith understanding.
• Supervised and evaluated MPhil research.

• Erasmus Scholar, University of Bayreuth, Germany
• PhD Scholar, Ankara University, Turkey
• Visiting scholar and speaker in Japan