Cambridge Muslim College was the original vision of Abdal Hakim Murad, who continues to oversee and contribute to its work. Abdal Hakim was educated at Cambridge, Al-Azhar and London universities. He is currently the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University and Director of Studies in Theology at Wolfson College. He has published and contributed to numerous academic works on Islam, including as Director of the Sunna Project, and is a leading figure in inter-faith activity, notably as one of the signatories to the Common Word statement. He is well-known as a contributor to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’.

Sohail Hanif works on Islamic legal theory, with a focus on the Ḥanafī school of law. He received a MA and DPhil from the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis, A Theory of Early Classical Ḥanafism: Legal Epistemology in the Hidāyah of Burhān al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 593/1197), studies the interplay of rationality and tradition in a major work of legal commentary. Sohail has also spent over a decade in Jordan where he studied a full curriculum of Islamic sciences with traditional ‘ulamā’. He was previously Head of Arabic Sciences at Qasid Arabic institute in Amman, an instructor in Islamic studies at Qibla online academy, and has taught undergraduate classes on Modern Islam and Qur’anic studies at the University of Oxford. He has also served as Head of Research and Development at the National Zakat Foundation. Email: sh@cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk

Dr Ramon Harvey is the Aziz Foundation Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Ebrahim College and a visiting lecturer at Cambridge Muslim College where he teaches Revealed Foundations on the BA in Islamic Studies. He received his MA and PhD in Islamic studies from SOAS, University of London. His research focuses on Qur’anic studies, philosophical theology, and ethics, both studying the intellectual history of these disciplines and making his own contemporary interventions. Dr Harvey’s first book, The Qur’an and the Just Society, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2018. He is currently writing a second monograph for EUP in constructive Muslim theology, drawing especially from the Māturīdī tradition. He is also a member of the Editorial Board for the journal Comparative Islamic Studies. Email: rh@cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk

Dr Hisham A. Hellyer read degrees in law and the social sciences at Sheffield University before completing his doctorate at the University of Warwick. He studied the Islamic intellectual tradition, particularly spirituality, law and theology, with scholars in the UK, Egypt, Malaysia, & South Africa, receiving ijāzāt from a number of them. A visiting professor at the UTM Centre for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science and Civilisation in Malaysia, Dr Hellyer is Professorial Fellow of Cambridge Muslim College. His research interests in Islamic Studies include Western Muslim communities, and the interchange between Islam, contemporary Muslim thought & modernity.

Well-known as an analyst and commentator focusing on politics and religion in the Arab world and Muslim communities globally in international media outlets, Dr Hellyer’s career has included positions at and affiliations with the Royal United Services Institute, Brookings Institution, ACUS, Harvard University, and the American University in Cairo. His books include “Muslims of Europe: the ‘Other’ Europeans” (Edinburgh University Press), “A Sublime Way: the Sufi Path of the Sages of Makka” (Fons Vitae & Dar al-Turath al-Islami) (co-author), “A Revolution Undone: Egypt’s Road Beyond Revolt” (Oxford University Press), and “The Islamic Tradition, Muslim Communities and the Human Rights Discourse” (editor)(Atlantic Council). @hahellyer
Email: hh@cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk

Dr Najah Nadi has a D. Phil from the University of Oxford and is the Aziz Foundation Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge Muslim College. Her doctoral thesis is titled Theorising the Relationship between Kalām and Uṣūl al-Fiqh: the Legal–Theological Hermeneutics of Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī (d. 792/1390). Her thesis examines the appropriation and naturalisation of philosophical theology (kalām) and Arabic logic (manṭiq) into Islamic legal hermeneutics (uṣūl al-fiqh) and offers new insights on the features of Taftāzānī’s intellectual project. Dr Nadi completed several years of traditional training at al-Azhar Mosque’s classical reading-circles, receiving ijāzāt in various Islamic sciences. Her research interests include: epistemology, hermeneutics, fatwas and fatwa institutions; Islamic intellectual history and ethics. She has worked as a contributing editor for the Integrated Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an, a research assistant at Egypt’s Official Fatwa Council, IIT and the Centre for Islamic Legislation and Ethics. She has also taught in Egypt, the UK and the USA. Dr Nadi holds an M.A. in Religious and Theological Studies from Boston University and a B.A. in Islamic studies from al-Azhar University in Cairo. Dr Nadi has given a series of lectures and presentations on Shari’a, Muslim family law, fatwa, and legal hermeneutics in a variety of international contexts. Her teaching courses include Islamic legal theories, theology, Arabic logic and Islamic spirituality. She is currently a Fellow in Peace and Reconciliation at Virginia Theological Seminary (USA) and has been a junior fellow at the Holberg seminar on Islamic history at Princeton University (USA) since 2015.
Email: nn@cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk

Yasser’s research interests rest in two main areas: the tradition referred to as the ma’qūlāt (Islamic rational sciences), focusing on the related disciplines of ‘ilm al-kalām (philosophical theology), uṣūl al-fiqh (legal theory), manṭiq (Logic), and falsafa (Islamic/Arabic philosophy). His second area of interest is the western philosophical tradition, focussing mainly on areas in Metaphysics, Logic, and the history of Medieval and Modern Philosophy. After undergraduate studies in Philosophy, Yasser read for a MA in medieval Arabic thought and is currently completing a PhD in Philosophical Theology at the University of Cambridge, with a thesis titled The Onto-Epistemology of the Beatific Vision in the Classical Ash‘arī School. In addition, Yasser has spent more than a decade studying the Islamic intellectual tradition – privately with scholars, as well as in traditional seminary settings – in Damascus and Istanbul. He has previously held the inaugural fellowship in Islamic Theology at ISAR Foundation, Istanbul; was Faculty Lecturer in Islamic Theology at the University of Istanbul, and continues to supervise undergraduate students for the Faculties of Philosophy and Divinity at the University of Cambridge.
Email: yq@cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk

Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra serves as a scholar and imam based in Leicester. He is a visiting imam to De Montfort University and the University of Leicester where he is also a member of the World Faiths Advisory Group and is the Muslim chaplain to Canary Wharf in London. Shaykh Mogra has been trained in classical theology and the traditional sciences of Islam. He holds religious credentials from Dar al-`Ulum, Holcombe, U.K. as well as advanced theological qualifications from Al-Azhar University. In addition, he has undertaken a postgraduate degree at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Shaykh Mogra has been at the forefront in deepening inter faith and community relations in the UK and around the world. He is a member of the Christian Muslim Forum, Religions for Peace UK, the European Council of Religious Leaders and the World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace. He is also a Faculty member at St. George’s College in Jerusalem, and the Senior Faith Leadership Programme in the UK.
Email: im@cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk

Mustafa manages all aspects of the Colleges facilities. He has a BA in Humanities, specialising in the History of Religion. As well as being a qualified English Language Teacher, Mustafa has worked as a Peace Worker in Bosnia and the UK. He has lived and taught in Saudi Arabia and enjoys travelling.
Email: me@cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk

Zainab gained a master’s degree in Biotechnology before undertaking her PhD in Biochemistry at Heinrich Heine University in Germany. She subsequently worked as a post doc researcher in the Pharmacology Department at Cambridge University. Zainab works at Cambridge Muslim College as a part-time College Coordinator supporting the BA (Hons) degree programme.
Email: zk@cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk

Nabila Winter’s role involves providing support and pastoral care to the students on the Diploma and BA programmes. She has a degree in Arabic from the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, and has spent many years in voluntary and youth work.