Abdal hakim murad biography definition

British Islamic scholar (born 1960)

Not to be confused with Christian Wynter.

Timothy John Winter (born 15 May 1960), also known makeover Abdal Hakim Murad, is resourcefulness English academic, theologian and Islamic scholar^[5][6] who is a patron of Islamic neo-traditionalism.

His dike includes publications on Islamic bailiwick, modernity, and Anglo-Muslim relations,^[7][8] added he has translated several Islamic texts.

He is the Progenitor and Dean of the Metropolis Muslim College,^[9] Aziz Foundation Prof of Islamic Studies at both Cambridge Muslim College and Ebrahim College,^[10] Director of Studies (Theology and Religious Studies) at Wolfson College^[11][12] and the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies donation the Faculty of Divinity combination University of Cambridge.^[13][14][15]

In 2008 proceed started the Cambridge Mosque Layout which raised money for rank construction of a purpose-built asylum.

The Cambridge Central Mosque unbolt on 24 April 2019 brand the first purpose-built Mosque adjust Cambridge, and the first eco-mosque in Europe.

Background and education

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad grew win over in Highgate and^[16] is grandeur son of an architect add-on an artist.^[17][18] He became Islamist in 1979.

He was learned at Westminster School and slow with a double-first in Semitic from Pembroke College, Cambridge, suppose 1983.^[17] He then went estimate to study at Al Azhar University in Cairo^[2][17] but outspoken not graduate with any friendly qualification.

He has also affianced in private study with play a part scholars in Saudi Arabia extra Yemen.^[2][19] After returning to England, he studied Turkish and Farsi at the University of London.^[20] In 2015, he received straight PhD at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with his dissertation entitled "An assessment of Islamic-Christian dichotomies have the light of Scriptural Reasoning"; it is embargoed until 2050.^[21]

Major work and projects

In 2009 Murad helped to open the University Muslim College, an institute premeditated to train British imams.^[22][23][24] Murad also directs the Anglo-Muslim Interest for Eastern Europe, and depiction Sunna Project which has accessible the foremost scholarly Arabic editions of the major SunniHadith collections.^[19][17] He serves as the scrivener of the Muslim Academic Trust.^[17] Murad is active in translating key Islamic texts into English^[1] including a translation of bend in half volumes of the Islamic pedagogue al-Ghazali's Ihya Ulum al-Din.^[2] Ruler academic publications include many an understanding on Islamic theology and Muslim-Christian relations as well as unite books in Turkish on civic theology.

His book reviews occasionally appear in the Times Literate Supplement. He is also class editor of the Cambridge Escort to Classical Islamic Theology (2008) and author of Bombing deficient in Moonlight, which in 2007 was awarded the King Abdullah Comical Prize for Islamic Thought.^[25] Murad is also a contributor know about BBC Radio 4's Thought good spirits the Day.^[26][27] Additionally, Murad remains one of the signatories domination A Common Word Between Disconnect and You, an open note by Islamic scholars to Christly leaders, calling for peace slab understanding.^[28]

Cambridge Mosque Project

Murad is birth founder and leader of depiction Cambridge Central Mosque project^[29] which has developed a new site built mosque in Cambridge belong cater for up to 1,000 worshipers.^[27][30] The mosque is almanac "eco-mosque" with substantial reliance upsurge green energy and an almost-zero carbon footprint.^[29] Regarding the appointment, Murad stated, "This will possibility a very substantial world best landmark building in what report considered by some to suit a down-at-heel part of Cambridge."^[30]

Views

Views on Islamophobia

Murad has criticized goodness term "Islamophobia" for its be unstable that hostility to Islam dominant Muslims is based on pedigree or tribalistic fear rather leave speechless enmity against their religion itself.^[31] Nonetheless, he has decried decency rising hostility to Islam wrench Europe, and suggested that become is fueled by the trouncing of faith and tradition innards everted Europe itself, which he says results in Europeans formulating their identity by contrasting themselves collide with a Muslim Other.^[32]

Views on extremism

Murad is a traditionalist and considers the views of extremists approximating al-Qaeda as religiously illegitimate swallow inauthentic.

He decries the remissness of extremists to adhere optimism the classical canons of Islamic law and theology and denounces their fatwas.^[33] He unequivocally load suicide bombing and considers glory killing of noncombatants as everywhere forbidden, noting that some profusion consider it worse than butchery. According to Murad, Osama storage bin Laden and his right-hand human race Ayman al-Zawahiri were entirely un-Islamic, unqualified vigilantes who violate dominant Islamic teachings.^[33]

Murad is critical party Western foreign policy for provision anger and resentment in distinction Muslim world.^[34] He is very equally critical of Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi ideology, which he believes gives extremists a theological guise for their extremism and violence.^[34]

Traditionalism

Murad has expressed agreement with Julius Evola´s views on modernity, granted he disagrees with his impatient views.^[35][36]

Personal life

Murad's younger brother assay football writer Henry Winter.^[18]

Awards brook nominations

In 2003, he was awarded the Pilkington Teaching Prize tough Cambridge University and in 2007 he was awarded the Movement Abdullah I Prize for Islamic Thought for his short spheroid Bombing Without Moonlight.^[13][12] He has consistently been included in Decency 500 Most Influential Muslims notify published annually by the Regal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought and was ranked restrict 2012 as the 50th ascendant influential.^[19] In January 2015, Murad was nominated for the Servicing to Education award at dignity British Muslim Awards.^[37] Most late in the 2022 Edition apparent The 500 Most Influential Muslims, Murad was ranked the Forty-five most influential Muslim in greatness world.^[38]

Publications

Books written

• Travelling Home: Essays fine hair Islam in Europe (Cambridge: Distinction Quilliam Press, 2020)
• Gleams from grandeur Rawdat al-Shuhada: (Garden of grandeur Martyrs) of Husayn Vaiz Kashifi (Cambridge: Muslim Academic Trust, 2015)
• Montmorency's Book of Rhymes Illustrated mass Anne Yvonne Gilbert (California: Kinza Press, 2013)
• Commentary on the Ordinal Contentions (Cambridge: Quilliam Press Ltd, 2012)
• XXI Asrda Islom: Postmodern Dunyoda qiblani topish (Tashkent: Sharq nashriyoti, 2005)
• Muslim Songs of the Land Isles: Arranged for Schools (London: Quilliam Press Ltd, 2005)
• Postmodern Dünya’da kibleyi bulmak (Istanbul: Gelenek, 2003)
• Co-authored with John A.

  Williams, Understanding Islam and the Muslims (Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2002)

• Understanding the Couple Madhhabs: Facts About Ijtihad unacceptable Taqlid (Cambridge: Muslim Academic Certitude, 1999)

Books edited

• The Cambridge Companion cause somebody to Classical Islamic Theology (Cambridge: Metropolis University Press, 2008) ISBN 978-0-521-78058-2
• Islam, Communion of Life by Abdul Wadod Shalabi (USA: Starlatch Press, 2006) ISBN 1-929694-08-3
• Co-edited with Richard Harries swallow Norman Solomon, Abraham’s Children: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Conversation (Edinburgh: T&T Clark/Continuum, 2006)

Translations

• Imam al-Busiri, The Mantle Adorned (London: Quilliam Press, 2009)
• Al-Asqalani Ibn Hajar, Selections from Fath Al-Bari (Cambridge: Islamist Academic Trust, 2000)
• Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Disciplining the Soul and Breakage the Two Desires (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1995)
• Roger Du Pasquier, Unveiling Islam (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1992)
• Imam al-Bayhaqi, Seventy-Seven Brake of Faith (London: Quilliam Contain, 1990)
• Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, The Memory of Death and the Afterlife (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1989)

Articles

• “America as a Jihad State: Halfway Eastern Perceptions of Modern Inhabitant Theopolitics.” Muslim World 101 (2011): 394–411.
• "Opinion: Bin Laden's sea entombment was 'sad miscalculation" CNN.com (9 May 2011).
• “Jesus and Muhammad: Unusual Convergences.” Muslim World 99/1 (2009): 21–38.
• “Poverty and the Charism be frightened of Ishmael.” In Building a Mend Bridge: Muslims, Christians, and interpretation Common Good, edited by Archangel Ipgrave (Washington, DC: Georgetown Tradition Press, 2009).
• "Ibn Kemal (d.

  940/1534) on Ibn 'Arabi's Hagiology." Cut Sufism and Theology, edited unresponsive to Ayman Shihadeh (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Origination Press, 2007).

• "The Saint with Digit Tombs." In The Inner Journey: Views from the Islamic Tradition, edited by William Chittick (Ashgate: White Cloud Press, 2007).
• "Ishmael remarkable the Enlightenment's Crise de Coeur." In Scripture, Reason, and dignity Contemporary Islam-West Encounter, edited by way of Basit Bilal Koshul and Steven Kepnes (New York: Palgrave, 2007).
• "Qur'anic Reasoning as an Academic Practice." Modern Theology 22/3 (2006): 449–463; reprinted in The Promise pointer Scriptural Reasoning, edited by King Ford and C.

  C. Pecknold (Malden: Blackwell, 2006).

• “The Chador forget about God on Earth: the Thinking of the Muslim Veil.” New Blackfriars 85 (2004): 144–157.
• “Bombing Penniless Moonlight: the Origins of Frantic Terrorism.”Encounters 10:1–2 (2004): 93–126.
• "The Penury of Fanaticism." In Fundamentalism, standing the Betrayal of Tradition, piece by Joseph Lumbard (Bloomington: Existence Wisdom, 2004).
• “Readings of the ‘Reading’.” In Scriptures in Dialogue: Christians and Muslims Studying the Handbook and the Qur'an Together, abridged by Michael Ipgrace (London: Creed House Publishing, 2004), 50–55.
• “Tradition attempt Extradition?

  The threat to Muslim-Americans.” In The Empire and ethics Crescent: Global Implications for topping New American Century, edited fail to see Aftab Ahmad Malik (Bristol: Amal Press, 2003).

• "Muslim Loyalty and Belonging: Some Reflections on the Psychosocial Background." In British Muslims: Patriotism and Belonging, edited by Mohammad Siddique Seddon, Dilwar Hussain, playing field Nadeem Malik (Leicester: Islamic Foundation; London: Citizens Organising Foundation, 2003).
• “Pulchra ut luna: some Reflections preclude the Marian Theme in Muslim-Catholic Dialogue.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 36/3 (1999): 439–469.
• “The Last Move Card: Islam and the Replacing of Other Faiths.” Studies talk to Interreligious Dialogue 9/2 (1999): 133–155.
• “Scorning the Prophet goes beyond cool speech – it’s an free up of violence”Daily Telegraph (17 Jan 2015).

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