Dluha received his BA in Tafsir and his MA in Gender from UIN Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. From his bachelor's degree until the present, he has been an associate researcher at LSQH (Laboratorium Studi al-Qur'an dan Hadis/Laboratory for Quran and Hadith Studies). Dluha is also a researcher in Rumah KitaB, an Indonesia-based NGO focusing on gender activism in Islamic societies and (traditional) institutions, and a member of Gender Pokja of the Netherlands-Indonesia Consortium for Muslim-Christian Relations (NICMCR). His studies mostly focus on queer issues and/in the Islamic texts, which in turn lead him to his most recent interest in Quran translation. Dluha joins the Textual Microcosms Project as a PhD student. He works on interlinear translations into Javanese of printed Islamic literature produced in Indonesia around the 1970-1980s, many of which are still in circulation in many Pesantrens today.