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Timothy Winter (also known as Abdul-Hakim Murad ) is a lecturer in Islamic studies at the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Cambridge and a leading British Islamic scholar . He was educated at Westminster School graduated with a first class honours MA in Arabic from Cambridge in 1983 . Timothy Winter's current research interests are in Muslim-Christian relations, Islamic ethics and the study of the Orthodox Muslim response to extremism. Timothy Winter has attended courses in the traditional Islamic sciences in Cairo and Jeddah where his teachers included Shaykh Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad and Shaykh Ismail al-Adawi. He has translated several classical Arabic works, including Imam al-Bayhaqi 's ' Seventy-Seven Branches of Faith ', and 'Selections from the Fath al-Bari'. He is also General Editor of the Islamic Texts Society's al-Ghazali series. His translations of Al-Ghazali’s 'On Death and What Comes After' and 'On Disciplining the Soul' have been acclaimed. He is a member of Pembroke College , Cambridge and holds the Sheikh Zayed Lectureship in Islamic Studies. He is also Director of Studies in Theology at Wolfson College . The Muslim Academic Trust, Director of The Anglo-Muslim Fellowship for Eastern Europe and President of the UK Friends of Bosnia-Herzegovina.1
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Timothy John "Tim" Winter (born 1960), also known as Abdal Hakim Murad , is a British Muslim scholar and teacher.Conversant in both traditional Islamic scholarship and Western thought and civilization, Winter has made contributions in the following areas: Muslim-Christian relations, Islamic ethics, Sufism, Islamic theology, Hadith studies, orthodox Muslim responses to extremism, sexuality in Islam, Islam and gender, Islam and the West, British Islam, religious life in Ottoman Turkey, and the Scriptural Reasoning project.
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Timothy John Winter (born in 1960), also known as Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad , is a British Sunni Muslim shaykh , researcher, writer and academic.He is the Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College, Director of Studies (Theology and Religious Studies) at Wolfson College and the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge University.His work includes publications on Islamic theology and Muslim-Christian relations.In 2003 he was awarded the Pilkington Teaching Prize by Cambridge University and in 2007 he was awarded the King Abdullah I Prize for Islamic Thought for his short booklet Bombing Without Moonlight .He has consistently been included in the "500 Most Influential Muslims" list published annually by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre and was ranked in 2012 as the 50th most influential.Islamic Interpretations of Christianity .[1] , Cambridge University, Faculty of Divinity: People.
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British Islamic scholar Timothy John Winter (born 1960), also known as Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad , is an English Sunni Muslim scholar, researcher, writer and academic.He is the Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College , Aziz Foundation Professor of Islamic Studies at both Cambridge Muslim College and Ebrahim College, Director of Studies (Theology and Religious Studies) at Wolfson College and the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies at University of Cambridge . His work includes publications on Islamic theology and Muslim-Christian relations. In 2003 he was awarded the Pilkington Teaching Prize by Cambridge University and in 2007 he was awarded the King Abdullah I Prize for Islamic Thought for his short booklet Bombing Without Moonlight . He has consistently been included in The 500 Most Influential Muslims list published annually by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought and was ranked in 2012 as the 50th most influential.Most recently in the 2020 Edition of The 500 Most Influential Muslims, Winter was ranked the 48th most influential Muslim in the world. Islamic Interpretations of Christianity .
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British Islamic scholar Timothy John Winter ; 15 May 1960 (also known as Abdal Hakim Murad ) is an English academic, theologian and Islamic scholar who is a proponent of Islamic neo-traditionalism .His work includes publications on Islamic theology , modernity , and Anglo-Muslim relations , and he has translated several Islamic texts.He is the Founder and Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College , Aziz Foundation Professor of Islamic Studies at both Cambridge Muslim College and Ebrahim College, Director of Studies (Theology and Religious Studies) at Wolfson College and the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at University of Cambridge .In 2008 he started the Cambridge Mosque Project which raised money for the construction of a purpose-built mosque.The Cambridge Central Mosque opened on 24 April 2019 as the first purpose-built Mosque in Cambridge, and the first eco-mosque in Europe.Neo-traditionalism in the West: navigating modernity, tradition, and politics (PhD thesis). Islamic Interpretations of Christianity . Abdal Hakim Murad | masud.co.uk" . masud.co.uk .
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English Islamic scholar (born 1960) Not to be confused with Timothy Wynter .Timothy John Winter (born 15 May 1960), also known as Abdal Hakim Murad ( Arabic : عبد الحكيم مراد ), is an English Islamic scholar and theologian who is a proponent of Islamic neo-traditionalism . His work includes publications on Islamic theology , modernity , and Anglo-Muslim relations , and he has translated several Islamic texts. He is the Founder and Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College , Aziz Foundation Professor of Islamic studies at both Cambridge Muslim College and Ebrahim College, Director of Studies (Theology and Religious Studies) at Wolfson College and the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at University of Cambridge . In 2008 he started the Cambridge Mosque Project which raised money for the construction of a purpose-built mosque. The Cambridge Central Mosque opened on 24 April 2019 as the first purpose-built Mosque in Cambridge, and the first eco-mosque in Europe. Muslim Subjectivities in Global Modernity . Neo-traditionalism in the West: navigating modernity, tradition, and politics (PhD thesis). Islamic Interpretations of Christianity . Abdal Hakim Murad | masud.co.uk" . masud.co.uk .
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lecturer in islamic studies at the faculty of divinity in the university of cambridge and a leading british isl
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english islamic scholar and theologian who is a proponent of islamic neo-traditionalism
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