Professor Abdur Rasjid Skinner obtained his M.A. in Anthropology and Abnormal Psychology from Queen's University Belfast. He is a practicing Clinical Psychologist who served for many years as as a consultant psychologist at Lynfield Mount Hospital and now works with Ihsaan, a Bradford based clinic that offers Islamically-based psychological therapies. He is a lecturer at Sheffield University, and at the Cambridge Muslim College in the United Kingdom where he oversees and teaches the IAIP certified course titled Islamic Psychology and Islamic Psychotherapy. Abdur Rasjid is a visiting professor in clinical psychology to the University of Karachi in Pakistan and is a member of the British Psychological Society. He is the author of the papers, An Islamic Approach to Psychology and Mental Health (2010)​ and Tradition, Paradigms, and Basic Concepts in Islamic Psychology (1989) and has been an influential contributor and pioneer in the field.