Zailan Moris is a Malaysian scholar of Islamic philosophy[2] and former professor of the School of Humanities at the University Sains Malaysia.

She became interested in Islamic philosophy after being inspired by Iranian philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and received a PhD in 1994 from the American University in Washington, DC, under his supervision.

Being a devout student of Nasr, she shares many of his ideas and has discussed and commented upon different aspects of his philosophical thinking.

[5] Moris taught at the Department of Philosophy in the School of Humanities at the University Sains Malaysia until her retirement in 2017.

Moris has authored and co-authored several books and scholarly articles on different aspects of Islamic philosophy.