Sh. Abdal Hakim Murad

Sh. Abdal Hakim Murad is one of Islam’s leading thinkers today. He graduated from Cambridge University with a double-first in Arabic in 1983. He then lived in Cairo for three years, studying Islam under traditional teachers at Al-Azhar, and then three years in Jeddah, where he he studied with Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad. He is the translator of a number of works, including two volumes from Imam al-Ghazali’s Ihya Ulum al-Din. He appears frequently on BBC Radio and writes occasionally for a number of publications. He currently lives in Cambridge where he is a Lecturer at the Divinity School in the University of Cambridge.