Abdal Hakim Murad – The Role of Faith in Times of Turmoil

Abdal Hakim MuradOctober 20, 201120 min0 comments

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Ummah Affairs Muslim Identity in the West Islamic Governance History of Islam Counter-Extremism Radicalisation Maqasid al-Sharia Muslim Scholarly Authority

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In this lecture delivered approximately ten years after 9/11, Sheikh Abdul Hakim Murad offers a searching critique of both the failure of secular counter-terrorism strategies and the crisis of credibility within the Muslim scholarly tradition. He argues that radicalisation is fundamentally a spiritual sickness that cannot be treated through state-sponsored initiatives or social science jargon, but only through the authentic, independent voice of scholars grounded in taqwa and the internal language of Islam. Drawing on Islamic history, the maqasid of the Sharia, and the prophetic example of mercy toward the erring, he calls on Muslim leaders to disengage from official agendas, reclaim their independence, and reach marginalised young people through genuine empathy and Islamic adab.

Abdal Hakim Murad

Timothy John "Tim" Winter (born 1960), also known as Abdal Hakim Murad, is a British Sufi Muslim researcher, writer and teacher. His profile and work have attracted media coverage both in the Muslim World and the West. Conversant in both traditional Islamic scholarship and Western thought and civilization, Winter has made contributions on many Islamic topics. Education Born in 1960, Winter was educated at Westminster School, and graduated with a double-first in Arabic from Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge in 1983. He then studied and taught traditional Islamic sciences at the Al-Azhar University in Egypt for several years, and spent several more in Jeddah, where he administered a commercial translation office and maintained close contact with Shaykh Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad. In 1989, he returned to England and spent two years at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London where he concentrated on Turkish and Persian. Career Winter is currently the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University, Director of Studies in Theology at Wolfson College, and a doctoral student at Oxford University, where he is studying the relationship between the government and Sufi brotherhoods in the Ottoman Empire. Winter is also the secretary of the Muslim Academic Trust (London), Director of The Anglo-Muslim Fellowship for Eastern Europe, President of the UK Friends of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Director of the Sunna Project, which has published scholarly Arabic editions of the major Sunni Hadith collections.

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