Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad heads up a new college in Cambridge: The Cambridge Muslim College supports the development of training and Islamic scholarship to help meet the many challenges facing Britain today. The college is dedicated to maintaining academic excellence and pushing the boundaries of Islamic learning in the West. http://www.cambridgemuslimcollege.org
Yesterday my nieces Zakia and Maria twittered the Radical Middleway’s Habib Ali talk they made a valliant effort but due to some technical issues missed part of Habib Ali’s talk. The other speakers were Hakim Archuletta and Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad who also gave very inspiring speeches. You can see the twitter transcript here http://twitter.com/majhul?page=7 and work forwards.
This is an excellent interview with Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad in which he discusses his reasons for converting to Islam in his teenage years. If you want to read about his conversion you can do so in the article Quicunque Vult, or, A teenage journey to Islam. Joan Bakewell explores areas of belief with artists, thinkers and other public figures. She talks to Cambridge University chaplain and Muslim convert Tim Winter, known as Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad. He explores the…