AUTHOR

Sheikh Abdal Hakim Murad

Abdal Hakim Murad, dean of Cambridge Muslim College in the United Kingdom, was educated at Cambridge, Al-Azhar, and the Free University of Amsterdam. He is currently University Lecturer in Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University. He has published and contributed to numerous academic works on Islam, and appears regularly on BBC Radio. He recently published Travelling Home: Essays on Islam in Europe (2020), which is available for purchase at quilliampress.com.

All articles by Sheikh Abdal Hakim Murad

Fall of the Family

Abdal Wadod Shalabi has remarked that a society only becomes truly decadent when “decadence” as a principle is never referred to in public debate. Prior generations of Muslims and Christians

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Communal Life

Complementary to the rulings about personal daily life are those related to interactions among people. Below we will examine the guidance of Islamic law (sharīʿah) about several of the essential

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The Deen of Old Women – Discussion

A motivational discussion with Dr. Fareeha Khan, author of “The Deen of Old Women,” and discussants Mussarat Khan and Saadia Shariff on our second Not-a-Whole-Book club session. Our attitudes toward aging

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