Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad is currently the Sheikh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, and Director of Studies in Theology at Wolfson College.

He has published and contributed to numerous academic works on Islam, including the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, with his best-known works being his translations from Imam Al-Ghazali’s Ihya (1995), a series of aphorisms (Commentary on the Eleventh Contentions), and his most recent book, Travelling Home: Essays on Islam in Europe.

He is founder and Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College, which has offered Diploma courses for British Dar Al-Ulum graduates and now has an accredited BA programme offered to graduate religious leaders who are confident, competent, and conversant with the issues of the age. He is a much sought-after speaker and contributes regularly to the media and is fluent in several languages. Hundreds of YouTube videos of his lectures and talks form an important source of knowledge for English-speaking Muslims worldwide.

His Paradigms of Leadership lecture series focuses on exemplary figures in Islamic history and has proved to be particularly popular. Shaykh Abdal Hakim was the main force behind the decade-long project to build the Cambridge Central Mosque, Europe’s first eco-mosque, which opened in April 2019 and has become an iconic standard for all places of worship in the country.