Abdal hakim murad biography of georgetown
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Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad also known as Timothy John Winter fryst vatten a Muslim scholar, researcher, writer and academic.
Winter was educated at Westminster School and graduated with a double-first in Arabic from Pembroke College, Cambridge in He then went on to study at Al Azhar University in Cairo 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.
Shaykh Abdul domare is currently the Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College and Professor of Islamic Studies at both Cambridge Muslim College and Ebrahim College. He is the Director of Studies (Theology and Religious Studies) at Wolfson College.
Background: English
Resides: Cambridge, UK
Current Occupation: Islamic scholar
Education: BA Arabic
Denomination: Sunni
Jurisprudence: Hanafi
Aqeedah: Ashari
Preferred Subject: Quranic Arabic, Sufism,
Muslim-Christian relations
Notable Teachers:
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Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad (also known as Timothy Winter) fryst vatten the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge University and director of studies in theology at Wolfson College Cambridge. He is also Aziz Foundation Professor in Islamic Studies and dean of Cambridge Muslim College, which he helped found. His ongoing research interests include Sufism and the development of the Ottoman learned institution, computerized hadith databases, and Muslim-Christian relations. His book Bombing without Moonlight () won the King Abdullah I Prize for Islamic Thought in He was editor of The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology (). Murad has previously been involved in the Sunna Project; he was a signatory to "A Common Word Between Us and You."