Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad (Timothy John Winter) is Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College, London, UK, which trains imams for British mosques. In 2010 he was voted Britain’s most influential Muslim thinker by Jordan’s Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre. He has translated a number of books from the Arabic, including several sections of Imam al-Ghazalis Ihya Ulum al-Din. His most recent book is Commentary on the Eleventh Contentions (2012), in which he deals with a range of modern social and political controversies. Abdal Hakim Murad, a Sunni Muslim, regularly leads Jum’a prayers at the Cambridge central mosque, and has spoken in major mosques in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Spain, and the United States. Recordings of his talks are available on the Cambridge Khutbas website. His articles have appeared in The Independent, the London Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Catholic Herald, Islamica, Zaman, the Times Literary Supplement, and Prospect. He is also a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day. He was educated at Westminster School and graduated with a double-first in Arabic from Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge in 1983. He then went on to study at Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt and further private study with individual scholars in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. After returning to England he studied Turkish and Persian at the University of London. He has consistently been included in the 500 Most Influential Muslims list published annually by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre and was ranked in 2012 as the 50th most influential. https://youtube/watch?v=2czBqIziMtU
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