Mohammad Abdur Rashid is a Bangladeshi academic and vice-chancellor of the Islamic Arabic University.[1] [2] He is a member of the Sharia advisory board of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission.
Rashid is a professor of the Department of Islamic studies at the University of Dhaka.[3]
Rashid did his bachelor's degree and masters in Islamic Studies at the University of Dhaka in 1988 and 1989 respectively.[4] He completed his PhD at the University of Dhaka in 2002.
Rashid joined Abudharr Ghifari College as a lecturer on 6 November 1995. He joined the University of Dhaka as a lecturer on 1 October 1997. He was promoted to assistant professor on 7 November 2000. He was promoted to associate professor on 21 May 2003.
Rashid was promoted to professor on 5 September 2006.
From 18 February 2014 to 17 February 2017, Rashid was the head of the Department of Islamic Studies at the University of Dhaka. He was a member of the Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board. On 31 December 2019, he was appointed the chairman of the Governing Committee of Nilkhet High School. He is a member of the Shariah Supervisory Committee of the United Commercial Bank PLC.[5]
Rashid was appointed to the Sharia advisory board of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission.[6] On 1 June 2020, Rashid was appointed provost of Kabi Jashim Uddin Hall of the University of Dhaka. In April 2023, he was appointed the vice-chancellor of the Islamic Arabic University.[7] He replaced Mohammad Ahsan Ullah, whose term was investigated by the Ministry of Education and the University Grants Commission over irregularities in recruitment.[8] In July, he was appointed director of Dr. Serajul Haque Centre for Islamic Research. In November 2023, he was re-elected president of the Department of Islamic Studies Alumni Association.[9]
On 24 January 2024, Rashid was appointed convenor of a committee to investigate a story about a transgender woman in a high school textbook of the national curriculum.[10] [11]