Having received a scholarship from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to pursue his studies, he studied the sciences of Arabic language, hadith and tafsir under scholars of the Great Mosque in Makkah Al-Mukarramah. He then joined King Saud University in Riyadh, where he graduated in 1989 from the Faculty of Education with a bachelor’s degree in “Jurisprudence and its Fundamentals” with excellence and first class honors, and elected first in that year. In 1992, he obtained the magister degree with a mention of excellence in the “Fundamentals of Jurisprudence”.

Similarly, His Excellency brilliantly received a PhD in Law (subspecialty: Fundamentals of Jurisprudence) with distinction from the Faculty of Law of the International Islamic University of Malaysia in 1996. He also obtained a postgraduate degree in Islamic Finance and Banking from the Centre for Economics at the same University in 1998.

He also obtained a PhD in Islamic Sciences (Islamic Finance) with a very honorable distinction from the Higher Institute of Theology of al-Zaytuna University in Tunis in 2001.

He was awarded a chair at the International Islamic University of Malaysia in 2001 to become the youngest professor in the history of the university, when he was thirty-five years old at the time.

His Excellency held numerous academic and administrative positions, having worked as a university professor for sixteen years, as a trustee of the International Islamic University of Malaysia, founding director of the International Institute for the Unity of  the Islamic Nation in Malaysia, and chairman of the Shariah Council of Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions.

His Excellency also held a number of political and diplomatic positions in the Republic of Guinea, where he served as Minister of Religious Affairs, Minister of International Cooperation and African Integration, Minister of Diplomatic Affairs in the Office of the President of the Republic of Guinea and Diplomatic Advisor to the President of the Republic.

His Majesty the Sultan, Ahmed Shah, former King of Malaysia, awarded him the Royal Malaysian Medal known as the “Dato”. His Excellency has also won a number of gold medals and the “Ideal Student” medal at King Saud University in Riyadh for the year 1989.

His Excellency is fluent in Arabic, French, English and some Malay, in addition to Mandinka as a native language. His Excellency has participated in many international scientific, intellectual and political forums, conferences and symposia and has presented many distinguished and outstanding research papers.

His Excellency is the author of more than twenty-five published books and dozens of scientific research articles and has supervised dozens of master and doctoral students.