Dr. Muhammad Ahmad Munir is a scholar of Islamic law, jurisprudence, and Qur’anic studies, currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Islamic Research Institute (IRI) of the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI). He heads the Department of Qur’anic Studies and is the Editor of Islamic Studies, a SCOPUS-indexed journal of international repute.He holds a…
Dr. Tajul Islam is a Lectuer in Islamic Studies at the Univeristy of Leeds. He holds a BA in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Leeds and a PhD in Islamic Theology from the University of Exeter. He is recognized as a theologian, having pursued studies in traditional madrasahs/ulama across the Muslim world, including…
Dr. Irfanullah Farooqi obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology in 2014 from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, with a dissertation titled “From Universalism to Muslim Nationalism: A Sociological Inquiry into the Evolution of Muhammad Iqbal’s Thought.” Prior to his doctoral studies, he completed his M.Phil in Sociology in 2009, focusing on “Literature and Society: An Interpretative Study…
Dr. Sharif El-Tobgui holds a BS in Arabic Language from Georgetown University, a Master’s and PhD in Islamic Studies from McGill University and currently serves as Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Director of the Arabic Language Program at Brandeis University. He previously taught for five years at Harvard University as Preceptor of Arabic,…
Dr. Osman Latiff is Senior Researcher and Instructor at Sapience Institute. He has a B.A. in History, an M.A. in Crusader Studies, and has completed a PhD in the ‘Place of Fada’il al-Quds (Merits of Jerusalem) and Religious Poetry in the Muslim effort to recapture Jerusalem in the Crusades’ from Royal Holloway, University of London. He has delivered many papers in the…
Dr. Katherine Bullock is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, where she also completed her Ph.D. Her teaching focus is political Islam from a global perspective, and her research focuses on Muslims in Canada, their history, contemporary lived experiences, Islamophobia, political and civic engagement, debates on the…
Dr. Mustapha Sheikh is a scholar specialising in the Shari’a and its ancillary sciences and is the Chair in Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies at the University of Leeds (UK).His travels in pursuit of knowledge have taken him across the Muslim world, including to several historical centres of learning. In Damascus, he received instruction from its…