HE Dr Muhammad bin Abdulkarim Al Isa
Secretary General of the Muslim World League
Member of the Council of Saudi Grand Scholars
Advisor to the Saudi Royal Court
and a former Saudi Justice Minister
Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem, OBE
BA (Cairo), PhD (Cantab), FCIL (London)
Department of the Languages and Cultures of Near and Middle East
King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies
Centre of Islamic Studies (CIS)
Director, Centre of Islamic Studies
London Middle East Institute (LMEI)
Centre for Translation Studies (CTS) and Steering Committee Member for Arabic
Dr Peter Clark, OBE
BA (Keele), PhD (Leicester)
Writer, translator and consultant. Translator of eight books from Arabic, fiction and non-fiction Author of eight books, including Marmaduke Pickthall: British Muslim, first published 1986, reissued 2016, translated into Arabic 2016 and Istanbul, published 2010, translated into Italian 2014.
Last book, Damascus Diaries, Life under the Assads, 2015; forthcoming publication, Emirates Diaries, Culture, Peace and War in the Gulf, September 2017.
Dr Hashim Mahdi
Scholar
Dr. Hashim Muhammad Ali Mahdi was born and educated in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, obtained his PhD in the US and further qualifications in the UK. He is a fellow of the Islamic Academy, Cambridge and has been associated with the Muslim World League in various capacities for almost two and a half decades, including the post of International Strategic Expert in recent years.
Dr Ahmad Al-Dubayan
Director General of the Islamic Cultural Centre in London
He worked as a lecturer in Imam Ibn Saud University in Saudi Arabia and also in the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Jakarta. He was a Visiting Lecturer for University of Indonesia. He was appointed as Head of Islamic Section in the Saudi Embassy in Bonn.
Since 2001 he has been the Director General of The Islamic Cultural Centre and the London Central Mosque.
Dr Ramon Harvey
Lecturer
Dr Harvey received his MA and then PhD in Islamic Studies from SOAS, University of London. He has previously worked as a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, as a Research Fellow at the Cambridge Muslim College and is currently Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Ebrahim College in London. He has written articles on canonical and variant Qur’anic qirāʾāt and will soon release his first book entitled The Qur’an and the Just Society with Edinburgh University Press. His current research interests are Qur’anic studies, Islamic theology and contemporary philosophy.
Ajmal Masroor
Imam, Author, Broadcaster and Relationship Counsellor
As an author and broadcaster he writes and discusses various topics ranging from theology to social action, marriage to integration and politics to reform. He is well known for articulating the authentic moderate voice of Islam. As a socio-political and religious commentator the media regularly invites him to take part in TV and radio discussions and debates. He often travels around the world delivering lectures at conferences and training for young people.
Dr. Suhaib Abdul Gaffar<br /> Hasan
Imam, Author, Broadcaster and Relationship Counsellor
As an author and broadcaster he writes and discusses various topics ranging from theology to social action, marriage to integration and politics to reform. He is well known for articulating the authentic moderate voice of Islam. As a socio-political and religious commentator the media regularly invites him to take part in TV and radio discussions and debates. He often travels around the world delivering lectures at conferences and training for young people.
Shaykh Haytham Tamim
Director and founder of Shariah Solutions Ltd, Chairman and founder of Utrujj Foundation. Consultant in Islamic Finance
Shaykh Haytham Tamim’s extensive expertise spans over 30 years across the main Islamic jurisprudence schools of thought and different Islamic denominations through highly advanced classical and religious texts. Studying with some of the foremost scholars in their expertise, he holds some of the highest Ijazahs (certificates) Quran, Hadith (the prophetic traditions) and Fiqh (Islamic rulings).
Shafi Fazaluddin
BSc (Bristol) MA (City, University of London) MA (SOAS)
Shafi Fazaluddin is a PhD Candidate at SOAS, University of London and holds Masters Degrees in both Islamic Studies and Law. He is also a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales with extensive legal experience in the City of London. His specialist area of research is Conciliation (Sulh) in the Qur’an and Hadith. He is the author of Conciliation Ethics in the Qur’an, published in 2016.
Dr.Fatima Rajina
BA (University of London), PGCE (University of Bedfordshire), MA (University of London)
Fatima Rajina recently completed her PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, looking at British Bangladeshi Muslims and their changing identifications and perceptions of dress and language. She has an innate appreciation for the diversity of human nature, as evidenced in her choice of degrees and in her desire to constantly engage with the complex and challenging facets of our global society. She speaks five languages and is passionate about social justice issues. Fatima is currently working on a project, Lutonians, along with Ahqib Hussain to document the every day lived-experiences of people from Luton.