Shaykh Dr. Hisham

Shaykh Dr. Hisham is an internationally renowned author and scholar, educated to doctoral levels at the universities of Sheffield and Warwick in law and the social sciences, and trained in the Islamic intellectual tradition in the Arab world, Europe, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. Previously appointed as the first professorial fellow in Islamic Studies at Cambridge Muslim College of Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, and fellow of the Centre for Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, Shaykh Hisham’s teachers in the Islamic tradition include the late Shaykh Seraj Hendricks, the senior representative of the Makkan sage Sayyid Muhammad b. Alawi al-Maliki, who designated him as the first and only senior scholar of the renowned Azzawia Institute in South Africa. Born to an English father and to an Egyptian mother of Sudanese & Moroccan heritage, Dr Hisham has been included in the scholarly section of the ‘Muslim500’ for the last 6 years, with a career in noted institutions including Harvard University and the American University in Cairo.