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Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word common between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with Him, and that some of us take not others for Lords beside Allah.’ But if they turn away, then say, ‘Bear witness that we have submitted to God.’ (Al Quran 3:64)

Timothy John Winter (born 15 May 1960), also known as Abdal Hakim Murad, is an English academic, theologian and Islamic scholar^[5][6] who is a proponent of Islamic neo-traditionalism. His work includes publications on Islamic theology, modernity, and Anglo-Muslim relations,^[7][8] and he has translated several Islamic texts.

He is the Founder and Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College,^[9] Aziz Foundation Professor of Islamic Studies at both Cambridge Muslim College and Ebrahim College,^[10] Director of Studies (Theology and Religious Studies) at Wolfson College^[11][12] and the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at University of Cambridge.^[13][14][15]

In 2008 he started the Cambridge Mosque Project which raised money for the construction of a purpose-built mosque. The Cambridge Central Mosque opened on 24 April 2019 as the first purpose-built Mosque in Cambridge, and the first eco-mosque in Europe.

Murad is the son of an architect and an artist.^[16][17] He became Muslim in 1979. He was educated at Westminster School and graduated with a double-first in Arabic from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1983.^[16] He then went on to study at Al Azhar University in Cairo^[4][16] but did not graduate with any formal qualification. He has also engaged in private study with individual scholars in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.^[4][18] After returning to England, he studied Turkish and Persian at the University of London.^[19] In 2015, he received a PhD at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with his dissertation entitled “An assessment of Islamic-Christian dichotomies in the light of Scriptural Reasoning”; it is embargoed until 2050.^[20]

In 2009 Murad helped to open the Cambridge Muslim College, an institute designed to train British imams.^[21][22][23] Murad also directs the Anglo-Muslim Fellowship for Eastern Europe, and the Sunna Project which has published the foremost scholarly Arabic editions of the major Sunni Hadith collections.^[18][16] He serves as the secretary of the Muslim Academic Trust.^[16] Murad is active in translating key Islamic texts into English^[3] including a translation of two volumes of the Islamic scholar al-Ghazali‘s Ihya Ulum al-Din.^[4] His academic publications include many articles on Islamic theology and Muslim-Christian relations as well as two books in Turkish on political theology. His book reviews sometimes appear in the Times Literary Supplement. He is also the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology (2008) and author of Bombing without Moonlight, which in 2007 was awarded the King Abdullah I Prize for Islamic Thought.^[24] Murad is also a contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day.^[25][26] Additionally, Murad is one of the signatories of A Common Word Between Us and You, an open letter by Islamic scholars to Christian leaders, calling for peace and understanding.^[27]

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