Shaykh Dr. Asim Yusuf

Shaykh Dr. Asim Yusuf is one of the most senior English speaking scholars in the UK, as well as a full time medical doctor, author, poet and singer. He specialises in Islamic metaphysics, psychology and spirituality. 

He has studied widely and received authorisation from senior traditional scholars from around the world. In particular, he is considered an authority on Islamic Psychology and its philosophy, and a specialist in Islamic bioethics, astronomy, and metaphysics.

His studies have included the majority of the branches of the Islamic sciences, including advanced study of theology, philosophy, Islamic law (primarily Hanafi, but also basic studies of the Shafii and Maliki schools), Quranic hermeneutics, the principles of hadith critique, juristic principles and the philosophy of Islamic law, the grammar and philosophy of the Arabic language, classical and modern logic, western and Islamic rhetoric, hadith commentary, shamail and tasawwuf. He has taught most of these subjects over the years. Since 2014, he has been engaged in a complete reading, commentary and analysis of the Ihya Ulum al-Din of Imam Ghazali, one of the greatest masterworks of the Islamic tradition, and has to date completed the first third of the forty books with his students.

He is the author of several books, most notably Shedding Light on the Dawn, as well as being a poet and traditional singer better known by his pseudonym Talib al-Habib, with three well-received nasheed albums to his name. 

In 2022, Shaykh Asim was awarded an OBE by her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in her Platinum Jubilee honours for theological leadership and services to the Muslim community during the COVID pandemic of 2020/1. He was selected to be the Sunni Muslim faith representative to meet King Charles III upon his accession to the throne.