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Timothy Winter

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “lecturer in islamic studies at the faculty of divinity in the university of cambridge and a leading british isl”. Today it says “english islamic scholar and theologian who is a proponent of islamic neo-traditionalism”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “British Islamic scholar”. It now reads “English Islamic scholar (born 1960)”.
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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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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “lecturer in islamic studies at the faculty of divinity in the university of cambridge and a leading british isl”. Today it says “english islamic scholar and theologian who is a proponent of islamic neo-traditionalism”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “British Islamic scholar”. It now reads “English Islamic scholar (born 1960)”. Read the current article and compare.
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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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