Adnan Mahmud pursued both his undergraduate and master’s degrees at the University of Cambridge. He is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Edinburgh. A devoted admirer of Hindustani poetry, he immerses himself in the works of luminaries such as Allama Iqbal, Rabindranath Tagore, and Farrukh Ahmed. Alongside this, he nurtures a passion for…
Abdul Hai is a book lover, bookbinder, book restorer, and leisure writer. His other interests include book collecting, woodwork, gardening, and fishing. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Social Science and a Certificate of Higher Education, both from Birkbeck, University of London. also holds a Master’s degree from the University of Wolverhampton. He is…
Ameen Omar is a Ph.D. student at Princeton, working on slavery and post-abolition in the Persian/Arabian Gulf from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. Prior to joining the program, Ameen spent time studying Turkish at İbn Haldun Üniversitesi. He holds a master’s in History from George Washington and a second master’s in Islamic Studies from Hamad…
Amir Abu Ghudda holds a BA in Political Science and a Certificate in Economics from the University of Regina, complemented by a JD from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. His legal training includes completing articles at a prestigious Canadian national firm, as well as serving as a clerk at the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal….
Mohamud Awil Mohamed is a Fontaine Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, pursuing a Ph.D. in History and Islamic Law with a focus on Islamic thought and history in the Horn of Africa, Hijaz and the wider Indian Ocean world. He holds a diploma in Islamic Studies from Abubakar As-Siddique’s Institute for Islamic Studies, a BA…
Dr. Safaruk Chowdhury is the Academic Director of the Centre for Islamic Knowledge. He studied Philosophy at Kings College London, completing it with the accompanying Associate of Kings College (AKC) award. He then travelled to Cairo to study the traditional Islamic Studies curricula at al-Azhar University. He returned to the UK to complete his MA at the…
Dr. Khairudin Aljunied is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his BA and MA in History from the National University of Singapore in 2003 and completed his doctorate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, in 2008. Dr. Khairudin has studied and…